Always Pull The Thorn Out

The above Youtube video about Christian the Lion was sent to me via email by an old high school classmate.

This real-life story seems very much like Aesop's The Slave and the Lion. The link provided here presents Aesop's original fable, and two more, where in the second version the slave is given the name Androcles--probably to make the character more personable to readers--and in the third is transformed into a knight (with the tale, already heavy carrying its moral lesson, turned into religious allegory not unlike The Chronicles of Narnia, which incidentally also has a lion as a character).

In any case, charming folktales of lions and humans befriending and remembering each other's warm relationships have been with us for centuries, and seem to find their roots in actual events!

I think that changing the background music might give the video a less cheesy treatment. My apologies to those of you who are fans of the song, but then, you know how I feel. But we must always look at the positive. So whenever you are feeling down and wondering if anyone cares for you, always remember this reading from the Gospel according to Whitney: "Inday will always love you." :)

Here's another link, this time to a whole slew of folklore and mythology e-texts.