In writing that lauded the humble contributions of the Royal Oak, a tree behind which Charles II hid from Roundhead forces at the Battle of Worcester (WUH-stir), Aphra Behn compared Charles to an animal of this type, echoing a story that is the 150th entry in the Perry Index.
In a story credited to Laurentius Abstemius (law-REN-tee-uss ab-STEE-mee-us), one of these animals allows his daughter to marry a much smaller creature, and the daughter steps on her husband on the wedding night. In writing that lauded the humble contributions of the Royal Oak, a tree behind which Charles II hid from Roundhead forces at the Battle of Worcester (WUH-stir), Aphra Behn compared Charles to an animal of this type, echoing a story that is the 150th entry in the Perry Index. A man is saved from execution when one of these animals refuses to eat him in a story, reworked into a play by George Bernard Shaw, in which the Christian shepherd Androcles pulls a thorn from the paw of this kind of animal. For 10 points, what kind of animal is saved from a hunter's net by a mouse in one of Aesop's fables?
In a story credited to Laurentius Abstemius (law-REN-tee-uss ab-STEE-mee-us), one of these animals allows his daughter to marry a much smaller creature, and the daughter steps on her husband on the wedding night.
lions [or Panthera leo; or P. leo; accept "The Mouse and the Lion" or "Androcles and the Lion"; prompt on "leo"]