For other uses, see Three Little Pigs (disambiguation).
The Three Little Pigs
The wolf blows down the straw house in a 1904 adaptation of the story. Illustration by Leonard Leslie Brooke.
Folk tale
Name
The Three Little Pigs
Aarne–Thompson grouping
124
Country
England
"The Three Little Pigs" is a fable about three pigs who build their houses of different materials. A Big Bad Wolf blows down the first two pigs' houses which are made of straw and sticks respectively, but is unable to destroy the third pig's house that is made of bricks. The printed versions of this fable date back to the 1840s, but the story is thought to be much older. The earliest version takes place in Dartmoor with three pixies and a fox before its best known version appears in English Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs in 1890, with Jacobs crediting James Halliwell-Phillipps as the source. In 1886, Halliwell-Phillipps had published his version of the story, in the fifth edition of his Nursery Rhymes of England, and it included, for the first time in print, the now-standard phrases "not by the hair of my chiny chin chin" and "I'll huff, and I'll puff, and I'll blow your house in".[1][2]
The phrases used in the story, and the various morals drawn from it, have become embedded in Western culture. Many versions of The Three Little Pigs have been recreated and modified over the years, sometimes making the wolf a kind character. It is a type B124[3] folktale in the Thompson Motif Index.
^Orchard Halliwell, James. "The Nursery Rhymes of England". www.gutenberg.org.
^Ness, Mari (26 July 2018). "Questionable Scholars and Rhyming Pigs: J.O. Halliwell-Phillipps' "The Three Little Pigs"". www.tor.com. Tor.com. Retrieved 22 November 2023.
^"Thompson Motif-Index listed alphabetically" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-10-06. Retrieved 2018-08-16.
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