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For the Disney animated short film, see Three Little Pigs (film) . For the Green Jellÿ song see Three Little Pigs (Green Jellÿ Song) ''Three Little pigs'' is a Fairy Tale featuring Talking Animal s. Published versions of the story date back to the late 18th Century , but the story is thought to be much older. The story was made more popular thanks to an immensely successful 1933 Walt Disney Animated Cartoon . THE STORY Mother Pig sends her Three little piglets out into the world to make the strongest house for the family but they get into a fight so they all make three different houses. The first little pig builds a house of straw, but a wolf blows it down and eats the pig. The encounter between wolf and pig features ringing proverbial phrases: :One day the big bad wolf came and knocked on the first little pig's door and said, "Little pig, little pig, let me come in." And the little pig answered, "No, no, I won't let you come in, not by the hair on my chinny chin chin." "Well," said the wolf, "then I'll huff and I'll puff and I'll blow your house in." So he huffed and he puffed and he blew the house down and ate the first pig. The second pig builds a house of sticks, has the same conversation with the wolf, and the wolf eats the second pig. The third pig builds a house of Brick . The wolf cannot huff and puff hard enough to blow the house down. He attempts to trick the third little pig out of his house, but the pig outsmarts him at every turn. Finally, the wolf threatens to come down the chimney, whereupon the third little pig boils a pot of water into which the wolf plunges, and the third pig eats the wolf. The phrases used in this story, and the various morals that can be drawn from it, have become enshrined in western culture. In recent years, the story, as has happened to other fairy tales, often is softened from its original version. In these versions, neither the wolf or the pigs end up eating each other. For instance, the two less prudent pigs escape to the house of the third pig while the wolf is captured rather than boiled. HISTORY Printed versions - Traditional The tale has several similarities with " The Wolf And The Seven Young Kids " (the "kids" being young Goat s) included in '' Grimm's Fairy Tales '' (''Kinder- und Hausmärchen'', or ''Children's and Household Tales'') by The Brothers Grimm , a collection that was first published in 1812 and had several revisions and additions until 1857 . The tale of the Three Little Pigs and the '' in 1881 . The story also made an appearance in '' Nights With Uncle Remus '' in 1883 , both by Joel Chandler Harris , in which the pigs were replaced by Brer Rabbit . The story in its arguably best-known form appeared in '' English Fairy Tales '' by Joseph Jacobs , first published in 1898 and crediting Halliwell as his source Printed versions - Re-envisioned The Three Little Pigs were prominently featured in the second story arc of the Fables . Two of them were prominently involved in an attempt to overthrow the Fabletown government, and were Beheaded for the murder of the third pig, who had tried to warn Snow White of trouble brewing at the "Farm" where non-human-looking Fables are required to live. At the end of the story arc, they were replaced by transformed Giants . The giants had agreed to this transformation because the only other option they had was an enchanted sleep---they are difficult to hide and impossible to explain. A more recent version titled '' The Three Little Wolves And The Big Bad Pig '' switches the character roles of the traditional story. David Wiesner's ''The Three Pigs'' uses the characters from the traditional story, but has the pigs leave the pages of the story for an exploration of the world beyond the Fourth Wall . The book won the 2004 Caldecott Medal The Disney Cartoon A well-known version of the story is an . Parodies
IN POLITICS In March 2007, the story was modified in some British schools to "three little puppies" to avoid offending Muslim families, a move described by Ibrahim Mogra from the Muslim Council Of Britain as "bizarre". {Link without Title} However the name has changed back to the Three Little Pigs. Works influenced In Japan , the Puppet Show that draws the subsequent story of Three Little Pigs, ''Bū-Fū-Ū'' , was aired in 1960 to 1967. The show named the Three Little Pigs Bū, Fū and Ū. Roald Dahl rewrote it in a more modern and gruesome way in his book Revolting Rhymes ( 1982 ) There was also a Green Jelly metal music video rendition of the story, which broke the Top 20 in 1993. The Three Little Bops was a 1957 Looney Tunes Animated short film heavily based on the three little pigs tale, but with a modified story sung as lyrics to a Jazz tune. The Death In June album All Pigs Must Die . The Three Little Pigs are ''. Mario fights them one after the other at the conclusion of Mario Zone. In Heroes Of Might And Magic IV there is a scenario where there are three heroes known as the three pigs. The Three Little Pigs have made many appearances in WB Looney Tunes cartoons, including an adaptation of the original tale was done to the music of Brahms' Hungarian Dances nos. 5, 6 and 7. The Three Little Pigs were cast as antagonists in the Bugs Bunny cartoon '' The Wind Blown Hare '' (1949). REFERENCES
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