Chicken Little

This article is about the folk tale. For other uses, see Chicken Little (disambiguation).

Chicken Little, also known as Henny Penny and sometimes as Chicken Licken, is a folk tale with a moral in the form of a cumulative tale about a chicken who believes the world is coming to an end. The phrase "The sky is falling!" featured prominently in the story, and has passed into the English language as a common idiom indicating a hysterical or mistaken belief that disaster is imminent. Versions of the story go back more than 25 centuries;[1] it continues to be referred to in a variety of media.

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Anon thinks this might be the interpretation of “the sky is falling!”