The Frog and the Fox

**Kwaɗo da Fox** yana ɗaya daga cikin Tatsuniyoyi na Aesop kuma yana lamba 289 a cikin Perry Index .  Yana ɗaukar siffar wani labari mai ban dariya da aka faɗa game da likitocin bogi .

## Likita, warkar da kanka

Kwadi ya bar fadama ta asali ya bayyana kansa a matsayin likita mai aikin al'ajabi. Sai wani dila mai shakku ya tambaye shi yadda ba zai iya warkar da gurguwar fatarsa da kuma fatarsa mai rashin lafiya ba. Ba'ar dila ta maimaita karin maganar Girkawa, " Likita, warkar da kanka ", wadda ta kasance a zamanin Aesop (kuma daga baya aka ambato ta a cikin nassosin Kirista). Babrius ne ya rubuta tatsuniya a cikin Girkanci,  sannan Avianus ya fassara ta Latin.  Lokacin da William Caxton ya gabatar da labarin a shekara ta 1484, ya ƙara wani sharhi yana ba da shawara kan yin taka tsantsan game da munafunci, yana sake ambaton gargaɗin nassi. 

Lokacin da tatsuniya ta bayyana a cikin tarin da Francis Barlow (1687) ya zana, an mayar da hankali kan neman hujja don tallafawa alfaharin kwaɗon:
:: Kafirci wanda ba shi da wani tasiri a zahiri,
:: Kamar gine-gine masu ban mamaki, faɗuwar Kai Tsaye zuwa Rushewa. 
Sharhin Samuel Croxall na 1722 game da tatsuniyar an yi shi ne da shawarar cewa "bai kamata mu yi shiri don gyara manyan abubuwa a wasu ba, yayin da muke aiki a ƙarƙashinsu da kanmu". Amma, yayin da yake ambaton "Likita, warkar da kanka", Croxall ya nuna rauni a cikin labarin asali ta hanyar gargaɗi game da nuna wariya ga wanda ke ba da shawara kawai. Kuma a cikin labarinsa mai faɗi, "An fallasa ƙauna" (1744), John Hawkesworth ya ambaci magunguna da yawa waɗanda suka yi kama da suna goyon bayan shaidar kwaɗo. Ba a bayyana ƙaryar sa ba har sai da lafiyayyen dila ya yi kamar yana rashin lafiya. Sai bayan kwaɗo ya yarda da wannan ganewar kansa ne dila ya yi Allah wadai da shi a bainar jama'a.

## Hoton tatsuniya
A farkon ƙarni na 19, sake fasalin tatsuniyoyi a cikin Girkanci da Latin ya samar da wani ɗabi'a wanda ke nuna raunin tallan kwaɗin: *Iactantia refutat seipsam* (farin ciki yana musanta kansa).  Croxall ya kuma jaddada yanayin da ake shakku a cikin tattaunawar kwaɗin cewa, "an faɗi shi cikin tarin kalmomi masu tauri waɗanda babu wanda ya fahimta, ya sa dabbobin suka yaba da iliminsa kuma suka yaba da duk abin da ya faɗa." Duk, wato, banda dila, wanda ya gani ta hanyar kwaikwayon kwaɗin. Sakamakon haka, zane-zane na tatsuniyoyi sun nuna masu sauraro masu wayo da ke kewaye da kwaɗin yayin da yake tsaye a gefen fadama, gabaɗaya dila yana zaune a gefe ɗaya. A cikin bugun Heinrich Steinhöwel (1476), masu sauraro ba su haɗa da wani abu mai ban mamaki ba kamar bera, zomo da bushiya,  amma Henry Walker Herrick (1869)  da Ernest Griset (1874)  sun samar da kayan abinci iri-iri. Francis Barlow ya fi mai da hankali kan masu sauraron dabbobin gida amma ya sanya ɗan kurege da biri a cikin rassan itace da suka rataye,  inda mai zane na Samuel Croxall  da Thomas Bewick (1818)  suka takaita kansu ga barewa da dabbobin gona. Kwaɗo yana magance waɗannan daga bakin teku ko, a yanayin Samuel Howitt (1810, duba sama), daga wani tusock mai dausayi. Masu fasaha daga baya sun nuna kwaɗo a matsayin ɗan iska mai kama da huckster yana wasa a gaban gungun mutane masu kallo, kamar yadda ya faru a JM Condé (1905),  Arthur Rackham (1912),  John Vernon Lord (1989)  da Arlene Graston (2016).  Waɗannan sun canza mayar da hankali ga taken da aka bayar da labarin George Fyler Townsend (1887), "The Quack Frog". 

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