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|Image_Caption = The wolf blows down the straw house down in a 1904 adaptation of the story. Illustration by [[Leonard Leslie Brooke]].
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"'''The Three Little Pigs'''" is a [[fable]] about three [[domestic pig|pigs]] who build their [[house]]s of different materials. A [[Big Bad Wolf]] blows down the first two pigs' houses which are made of [[straw]] and [[Branch|sticks]] respectively, but is unable to destroy the third pig's house that is made of [[brick]]s. 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 [[pixie]]s 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
The phrases used in the story, and the various [[moral]]s 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<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://sites.ualberta.ca/~urban/Projects/English/Content/Thompson_Motif-Index.pdf |access-date=2018-08-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181006012046/https://sites.ualberta.ca/~urban/Projects/English/Content/Thompson_Motif-Index.pdf |archive-date=2018-10-06 |url-status=dead|title=Thompson Motif-Index listed alphabetically }}</ref> folktale in the [[Motif-Index of Folk-Literature|Thompson Motif Index]].
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