Three Little Pigs

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

In the fairy tale, three pigs each live for itself in a straw, wood and stone house, threatened by a wolf. In this case, the wolf tried to blow the houses, which will also work with the straw and wood house him.

From the fairy tale there are also some animated films and cartoons. These engage the subject on partly parodic.

The Walt Disney film The Three Little Pigs ( Three Little Pigs ) from the series Silly Symphonies ( director Burton Gillett ) was premiered on 27 May 1933 and awarded the Oscar for best animated short film. He was extremely successful as a supporting film in many movie theaters.

The didactic part of the folk tale - that diligence and hard, thorough work pay off, while convenience and light-hearted light-heartedness create problems - has been retained, but defused: The pig who live in the houses made ​​of straw and wood, are not eaten as in the original, but can save in the stone house of the third piglet. Even the wolf comes here not killed, but merely scalded.

The three little pigs are called ( German: Fiedler, Pfeifer and pig cleverness ) at Disney Fiddler, Piper and The Practical Pig. In Germany they are called Zilli, Billi and Willi.