Because an eclipse is a time of darkness which is associated with sadness.
The fables are called 'The Aesop Fables'. A weird name Aesop.
Melancholy means sad.
Melancholy
Aesop was famous for writing down fables, traditionally called "Aesop's fables."
A fable is a type of story. Aesop's fables are the fables invented by the famed fabalist Aesop.
Kefu Ma has written: 'Dui niu tan qin' -- subject(s): Chinese Fables, Fables, Fables, Chinese 'He Shi bi' -- subject(s): Chinese Fables, Fables, Fables, Chinese
Melancholy?
The noun fables is a plural noun; pronouns for fables are they (subjective) and them (objective).
Melancholy or sadness.
Fables mean animals, so the fables are all fiction here.
The Anatomy of Melancholy was created in 1621.
My Melancholy Baby was created in 1912.