Raven Seeks His Version of the Truth Leo Tolstoy tells the following version of a common Eastern European and Yiddish folktale. A father raven is flying his chicks, one at a time, from their island to the mainland. While crossing the bay with his eldest in his talons, he asks, “Who will carry me when I am too old to fly?” The young raven answers, “I will.” Not believing him, the father drops him into the water. When the father asks the second chick, she also says she will carry the father. Disbelieving her, as well, he opens his claws and lets her fall. The youngest chick answers his father’s…