It was first told orally, and later published by Nathan of Breslov in Sippurei Ma'asiot, a collection of stories by Rebbe Nachman.
The Rooster Prince accepts this idea and, step-by-step, begins to act human, until he is completely cured.
In 1991, Rabbi Avraham Greenbaum, himself a Breslover Hasid, published an entire self-help book based on this story, entitled Under the Table and How to Get Up.
Rakhmones (compassion towards others) and mitzvot (doing good deeds) are two key yiddish concepts demonstrated in the story.
Some early translations and oral traditions rendered the Yiddish word אינדיק indik as "Indian rooster".
(A well-known example is in Souls on Fire by Elie Wiesel, where he retells the story as heard from his Hasidic grandfather.)