The three little pigs (fairy tale)

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Illustration by Leonard Leslie Brooke (1904)

The three little pigs (also The three pigs , The little pigs , The fairy tale / The story of the (three) little pigs ) is an English fairy tale published by Joseph Jacobs , among others .

It has a few similarities with the fairy tale The Wolf and the Seven Little Goats by the Brothers Grimm .

action

The wolf falls into the pot (illustration by Leonard Leslie 1905 ).

The three pigs have grown up and are moving out. Everyone builds a house: the first piggy builds a straw house , the second a wooden house and the third a stone house . The wolf wants to eat the three, so he threatens the first two to blow over the house, which he succeeds. The pigs flee to the third pig. When he is unsuccessful in blowing the stone house, he tries to get into the house through the chimney. In doing so, however, he falls into a large pot of hot water that hangs in the fireplace over the fire.

Others

Painting by J. Jacobs, New York, 1895

There are also some animated films and cartoons from the fairy tale . Some of these take up the motif in a parodic manner .

The didactic part of the folk tale - that hard work and hard, thorough work pay off, while comfort and light-heartedness create problems - has been retained, but defused: the pigs that live in houses made of straw and wood are not eaten, as in the original , but can save themselves in the stone house of the third pig. The wolf does not die here either, it just scalds itself.

In the adaptation by Elizabeth Shaw , first published in 1972 by Kinderbuchverlag Berlin , the three little pigs Zilli, Billi and Willi are named. The wolf bursts while trying to blow away the stone house.

Disney movie

The Walt Disney film The Three Little Pigs ( Three Little Pigs ) from the series Silly Symphonies (Director Burton Gillett ) was on May 27, 1933 premiered with the Oscar for best animated short film award. It ran extremely successfully as a supporting film in numerous cinemas. The three pigs are called Fiddler , Piper and The Practical Pig at Disney (German: Fiedler , Pfeifer and Schweinchen Schlau ).

literature

  • Michael Staiger: The three intermedia pigs. Media displacements of a fairy tale from the 19th to the 21st century. In: Heidi Lexe (Ed.): Gorkicht im gemank. Medial and aesthetic shifts in children's and youth literature . Vienna: STUBE 2016 (series of publications focus), pp. 27–38.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Elizabeth Shaw Index. Retrieved March 27, 2020 .