When Scheherazade marries a ruthless king known for taking a new bride each night only to have his wife killed the next morning, she comes up with a clever plan to survive.
The proud queen of Connacht demands to own the Brown Bull of Ulster, and attacks on the first day of winter, knowing an ancient curse will cripple all the men of Ulster until the first day of spring.
Aesops tales have been used as an example of values all through the ages, since antiquity, when a Greek slave was let free by his master to write his beloved stories.