![]() ![]() ![]() "There was once a little chick named Kluk": beginning of the 1823 Danish version of the story. In Britain, it is best known as "Henny Penny" and "Chicken Licken". In the United States, the most common name for the story is "Chicken Little", as attested by illustrated books for children dating from the early 19th century. In most retellings, the animals have rhyming names, commonly Chicken Licken or Chicken Little, Henny Penny or Hen-Len, Cocky Locky, Ducky Lucky or Ducky Daddles, Drakey Lakey, Goosey Loosey or Goosey Poosey, Gander Lander, Turkey Lurkey, and Foxy Loxy or Foxy Woxy. ![]() In the most familiar, a fox invites them to its lair and then eats them all. After this point, there are many endings. The chick decides to tell the king and, on its journey, meets other animals which join it in the quest. ![]() There are several Western versions of the story, of which the best-known concerns a chick which believes that the sky is falling when an acorn falls on its head. The story is listed as Aarne–Thompson–Uther Index type 20C, which includes international examples of folktales that make light of paranoia and mass hysteria. Illustration for the story "Chicken Little", 1916 ![]()
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