4. The Bird Who Forgot Its Own Name (Indian — Panchatantra)

There is a story in the Panchatantra about a bird who lived among crows so long it forgot it was a swan.

It ate crow food, spoke crow language, and woke every morning in the wrong story.

This is what the mind does. It adapts — brilliantly — to stories that do not belong to it.

The Fool Method does not blame the bird.

It simply hands it a mirror of water and says:

“Look. You are not what you learned to pretend.”

This is how story healing begins — not with force, but with recognition.