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The tale, also known as “The Shepherd’s Boy and the Wolf,” concerns a shepherd boy who repeatedly tricks nearby villagers into thinking wolves are attacking his flock. This happens a total of three times, or three to four times depending on the version of the story. The last time being when the wolf actually appears. The boy again calls for help, the villagers believe that it is another false alarm and the sheep are eaten by the wolf. In the versions of "The Boy Cried Wolf" containing the three calls of 'Wolf!' by the Shepherd's boy, the rule of three is visible, which states that a pattern of three is effective in getting people to pay attention. In later English-language poetic versions of the fable, the wolf also eats the boy. This happens in Fables for Five Year Olds (1830) by John Hookham Frere,[4] in William Ellery Leonard's Aesop & Hyssop (1912),[5] and in his interpretation of Aesop's Fables (1965) by Louis Untermeyer.[6]

The moral stated at the end of the Greek version is, "this shows how liars are rewarded: even if they tell the truth, no one believes them". It echoes a statement attributed to Aristotle by Diogenes Laërtius in his The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, in which the sage was asked what those who tell lies gain by it and he answered "that when they speak truth they are not believed".[7] William Caxton similarly closes his version with the remark that "men bileve not lyghtly hym whiche is knowen for a lyer".[8]

Research has been done on the fable's effectiveness at getting kids not to lie. The article "Some Types of Fables may be Better at Teaching Children not to Lie" discusses the research and provide the results: children who hear "The Boy who Cried Wolf" are 35% more likely to be honest and 30% compared to other fables with no moral about lying. In comparison, those who heard the myth of George Washington chopping the cherry tree and telling his father "I cannot tell a lie" when asked of he chopped down the tree, resulted in a 48% rate of honesty. The conclusion is positive stories about honesty are more effective than stories about the negative impacts of lying,

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