Creighton University

These strange and delicate creations witness to the range of places in which Aesop shows up.  In each "diorama plegable," stiff paper is cleverly folded and pasted so that the result is a folded-over scene with two layers on its lower fold.  One of these lower layers is a floor with openings, and the other below includes persons and items that emerge through the openings.  As an onlooker lifts up the top fold, the characters lying flat on the upper bottom fold rise up and thus give the scene a third dimension.  The workings are fragile, and few of the characters still stand up well.  "La Zorra y los Cazadores" is in perhaps the best condition of the group.  The fable's text and moral are given on the bottom of the lower fold, and on the top of the upper fold is a list of published and to-be-published dioramas.  Notice that none of ours come from the promised group between "20 and 27."  Did it ever appear?  The ten we have are:

·       El Cazador y el Pero (No. 3, buit not yet numbered on its own envelope)

·       El Adivino (No. 6)

·       El Pastor Mentiroso (No. 7)

·       El Avariento (No. 9)

·       La Mona y sus Hijos (No. 10)

·       El Raton La Rana y el Milano (No. 11)

·       Es Asno y la Perrita (No. 12)

·       El Ladron y el Perro (No. 13)

·       La Zorra y el Lobo (No. 14)

·       La Zorra y los Cazadores (No. 17)