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. The story and its name Illustration for the story 'Chicken Little', 1916 Similar stories go back more than 25 centuries and 'Henny Penny' continues to be referred to in a variety of media. The phrase 'The sky is falling!' features 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. ' Henny Penny', more commonly known in the United States as ' Chicken Little' and sometimes as ' Chicken Licken', is a European folk tale with a moral in the form of a cumulative tale about a chicken who believes that the world is coming to an end.

For other uses, see Chicken Little (disambiguation).

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