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  2. The Three Little Pigs - Wikipedia

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    The story in its arguably best-known form appeared in English Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs, first published on June 19, 1890, and crediting Halliwell as his source. [5] The earliest published version of the story is from Dartmoor, Devon, England in 1853, and has three little pixies and a fox in place of the three pigs and a wolf. The first pixy ...

  3. Grimms' Fairy Tales - Wikipedia

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    Grimms' Fairy Tales, originally known as the Children's and Household Tales (‹See Tfd› German: Kinder- und Hausmärchen, pronounced [ˌkɪndɐ ʔʊnt ˈhaʊsmɛːɐ̯çən], commonly abbreviated as KHM), is a German collection of fairy tales by the Brothers Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm, first published on 20 December 1812.

  4. List of fairy tales - Wikipedia

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    Fairy tales are stories that range from those in folklore to more modern stories defined as literary fairy tales. Despite subtle differences in the categorizing of fairy tales, folklore, fables, myths, and legends, a modern definition of the literary fairy tale, as provided by Jens Tismar's monograph in German, [1] is a story that differs "from an oral folk tale" in that it is written by "a ...

  5. The Wolf and the Seven Young Goats - Wikipedia

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    The story was published by the Brothers Grimm in the first edition of Kinder- und Hausmärchen in 1812. Their source was the Hassenpflug family from Hanau. [2] A similar tale, "The Wolf and the Kids", has been told in the Middle East and parts of Europe, and probably originated in the first century.

  6. Fairy tale - Wikipedia

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    Fairy tale. The European fairy tale Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf in a painting by Carl Larsson in 1881. A fairy tale (alternative names include fairytale, fairy story, magic tale, or wonder tale) is a short story that belongs to the folklore genre. [1] Such stories typically feature magic, enchantments, and mythical or fanciful beings.

  7. Struwwelpeter - Wikipedia

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    König Nussknacker und der arme Reinhold. Der Struwwelpeter ("shock-headed Peter") [ 1 ] is an 1845 German children's book written and illustrated by Heinrich Hoffmann. It comprises ten illustrated and rhymed stories, mostly about children. Each cautionary tale has a clear moral lesson that demonstrates the disastrous consequences of ...

  8. The Tiger, the Brahmin and the Jackal - Wikipedia

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    The Tiger, the Brahmin and the Jackal is a popular Indian folklore with a long history and many variants. The earliest record of the folklore was included in the Panchatantra, which dates the story between 200 BCE and 300 CE. Mary Frere included a version in her 1868 collection of Indian folktales, Old Deccan Days, [1] the first collection of ...

  9. Rapunzel - Wikipedia

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    European. Published in. Grimms' Fairy Tales. " Rapunzel " (/ rəˈpʌnzəl / rə-PUN-zəl, German: [ʁaˈpʊnt͡sl̩] ⓘ; French: Raiponce or Persinette) is a German [ 1 ] fairy tale most notably recorded by the Brothers Grimm and published in 1812 as part of Children's and Household Tales (KHM 12).