Aesop's fisherman is a true magician in the Tarot's terms: he is a humble performer, but he also has true magical powers. The moral implies that these two qualities are related, that the power a performer wields over his or her audience is fully dependent upon his or her ability to influence others in the real world; this may be true of the utterly talentless, but those who are truly skilled in language, art, or music usually have no trouble getting the fish to dance, as it were, without the use of a net.
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