A likely precursor to "The Scorpion and the Frog" is the Persian fable of "The Scorpion and the Turtle". This earlier fable appears in the "Anvaar Soheili", a Persian collection of fables written c. 1500 by Hossein Va'ez Kashefi. The "Anvaar Soheili" is in part a translation of fables from the "Panchatantra", a collection of Indian fables, but "The Scorpion and the Turtle" does not appear in the "Panchatantra", which means it was added to the "Anvaar Soheili" by Kashefi and is thus likely Persian in origin.