"The Sky Is Falling"

[Fred Shapiro]

Is anyone able to supply any information, from folkloristic or other
sources, as to the antiquity of the story called "Chicken Little" or
"Chicken-licken" or "Henny-Penny" and featuring the line "the sky is
falling" or something similar to that?

Fred Shapiro


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