M134A. Three Little Pigs, ATU 124. .13.-.17.27.28.
Apredator/cannibal blows and destroys a fragile house, but cannot destroy a solid one. Usually, two or three weak characters create three houses to protect themselves from a predator, only one of which is strong.
Nubians, Arabs of Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, Italians (Piedmont, Tuscany, Umbria, Veneto, Rome)), Spaniards, Catalans, Portuguese, Irish, British, Bretons, French, Walloons, Palestinians, Arabs of Syria, Iraq, Bahrain, Hungarians, Greeks, Luzhitans, Ukrainians (Eastern Slovakia).
Sudan - East Africa. Nubians: El-Shamy 2004, No. 124:51-52.
North Africa. The Arabs of Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria: El-Shamy 2004, No. 124:51-52; Morocco [a family with seven sons decides to move; everyone takes turns getting tired, asking their father to build him the house is made of wood; Hdiddan's seventh son asks for an iron house; six guli are eaten, the seventh is not; the old Mamma-Goula and her ugly daughter remain guarded; they cannot lure H., who goes to buy food and water; man advises to smear donkey H.'s back with the old man's brains, H. sticks, MG grabbed him; H. advises placing him in a date barrel to make him fat and give him a pestle to knock; knocks, says that he is now too fat - let MG call other gulas; MG leaves, leaving her daughter to cook H.; H. praises the beauty of MG's daughter, offers to cut her hair, cut her throat; puts on her skin, meat gives the ghulam; gets the key to his iron house, runs away screaming who the guli ate; collects a bunch of firewood, shouts that he's under it; guli rush there, he sets fire to the firewood, the guli burn]: El Koudia 2003, no. 12:81-84.
Southern Europe. Italians: Calvino 1980, No. 24 (Mantova) [when she dies, a woman tells each of her three daughters to ask her uncle to build a house for her; one uncle made mats, the other was a carpenter, and the third a blacksmith; the older sister's house is wicker, the middle sister has a wooden house, and the youngest sister has an iron house; the wolf knocked down the first two houses, swallowed the girls; O Marietta's iron house, the wolf broke his shoulder and asked the blacksmith to fix it; the wolf calls M. to collect peas; she went out earlier and collected before the wolf appeared; the same the next day (lupine); on the third day, pumpkins, the wolf also came early, M. hid in the pumpkin; the wolf became there was a pumpkin, but the one in which M. was wearing decided to bring it home, threw it out the window; M. told him about it from the window; in the evening the wolf climbed through the chimney; M. boiled a boiler of water, the wolf fell into it and cooked]: 71- 73; Crane 1885, No. 86 (Veneto) [fearing a wolf, three goose sisters asked the man for straw to make a house; when the house was ready, the older sister did not let the other two in; also a house made of hay, the middle sister did not let the other two in the youngest; the youngest built a house of stone and iron; the wolf blew, the house of straw scattered, he ate the older sister; the same with the middle sister; the youngest's house is strong; the wolf suggests going to buy butter to cook pasta; the goose agrees, but does not open the door, but takes oil through the balcony, then asks to open its mouth, pours in boiling pasta, the wolf dies; two older sisters came out of their ripped belly, asked forgiveness to the youngest]: 267-270; Italians (Piedmont, Veneto, Umbria, Rome) [wolf and goat]: Cerise, Serafini 1975, No. 124:25; Spaniards (Murcia, Cuenca) [dying, mother tells three pigs to build houses for himself; only the youngest builds a solid house, the other two played, made houses out of sticks; the wolf blew the winds, the house fell apart, he ate the older pig; the same with the middle one; the youngest's house is intact; the wolf offers to go for chestnuts in the morning; the pig ties the rooster's beak, collects chestnuts; when he returns, unties the rooster, he sings, the wolf hears, comes; the same with a visit to the fair; the pig complains to the shepherds, they ambush; the pig opened the door, the wolf came in, dogs and shepherds with sticks killed him]: Camarena, Chevalier 1997, No. 124:232-235; Catalans (incl. Mallorca) [three pets leave home, each builds a house for himself: one of feathers, one of wool, the third of iron; the wolf blows, the first two houses fly away, the wolf eats their inhabitants; the inhabitant The third one is adjusted so that the wolf falls into boiling water and dies]: Oriol, Pujol 2008, No. 124:43-44; the Portuguese [Baixo Alentejo: the chicken finds treasures, builds a house for itself, and the other lives with the owner; a fox destroys her house and eats it; Algarve: Three little pigs build houses out of straw, sticks and iron; the first two are eaten by a wolf]: Cardigos 2006, No. 124:39.
Western Europe. The British [three little pigs grew up and went across the world to look for happiness; one met a man who built a house for him out of straw; the wolf told him to let him in; began to blow, the house scattered, the wolf swallowed pig; same with the second (brushwood house); the third met a man with a cart of bricks; the wolf blew but could not destroy the brick house; the wolf to the pig: I know where the sweet turnips grow, I'll come for you tomorrow at six; but the pig got up at five and picked up his turnips before the wolf arrived; the same with apples, but the wolf managed to come when the pig was on the apple tree; the pig threw the apple away while the wolf was picking it up, the pig cried and returned home; the next time the pig went to the fair and bought a butter churn; when he returned, he saw a wolf and rolled down the mountain with a butter churn at him in fear; the silence himself was frightened and ran away; decided to enter the pig's house through the chimney; the pig put the cauldron on fire; the wolf fell there, cooked it, the pig ate it]: Jacobs 1890, No. 14:68-72 (translated to Shereshevskaya 1957:11-14); Irish: Uther 2004 (1), No. 124:95-96; French (Lorraine) [the eldest of the three pigs invites the wolf to go to the fair, but leaves before the wolf comes for him; leads to the pear, but climbs it earlier, throws a bag of ash into the wolf's eyes; two older piglets each built an easy house for themselves, refused to help the youngest; he asked the blacksmith to make him a house out of iron; the wolf broke the elders' houses, ate them, but could not get to the youngest]: Cosquin 1887, No. 76:313-314; the walloons [three little pigs ran away from the pigsty, began to live in a clearing by the forest; the first one built a hut of leaves, the second is a wooden house, the third is an iron house; the wolf asks the first pig to let him in, referring to bad weather; he refuses, the wolf feathered, the house fell apart, the wolf ate the pig; the same with the second ; when the third {his house must have survived}, the wolf's ass broke; the tailor sewed it up for him, but now the wolf can't get rid of what he ate; the fox explains what was going on; the wolf returned to the tailor and he made a hole; gases from the wolf's belly escaped with such force that the tailor flew away with the house]: Laport 1932, no.*124A: 30; Bretons: Sébillot, II, no. 53 in Cosquin 1887 [of three chickens the eldest asks the younger ones to help him build a house, and when the house is ready, he locked himself in it and refuses to help; the same with the average chicken (pinched the younger door's nose); the youngest asked the mason to build he had a solid house and covered the roof with thorns; the wolf destroyed the houses of two older chickens and ate them themselves; when he climbed onto the roof of the youngest chicken's house, he pricked so much that he died]: 316; Frison 1908, No. 82 [two the pig built houses for themselves from twigs, the wolf broke them, ate the piglets; the third built a stone house; the wolf called him to pick apples; the pig climbed the tree earlier, threw the apples away while the wolf called them collected, he returned home; the next time the wolf offered to go to the fair; the pig threw up a saw; when it fell, it jumped, making a strange sound; the wolf was frightened, the pig returned home; the wolf decided Get in through the chimney, burnt]: 290.
Western Asia. Syrian Arabs: Abu Risha 2015 [Nkheilan brothers (from palm tree), Kzeizan (from grass), and Hdeidan (from iron) live side by side; one grew (?) palm trees and built his house from leaf cuttings; the second mowed grass, built a house out of grass; the third was a blacksmith, built an iron house; the ghoul destroyed the first house, ate the inhabitants; destroyed the second, humans escaped, but the ghoul ate supplies and pets; began to beat his head against the iron house, smashed his head, and Hdeidan finished him off with a spear]: 89-90; Kuhr 1993 [the gulya ate everyone, three brothers were left - one in a wicker the house, the other in glass, the third in iron; the gulya demands that the first one lend her a sieve, he refuses, she blows, the house flies away, the gulya eats the owner; the same with her brother in the glass house (asked glass goblet); she asked her brother in the iron house for an ax, who brought firewood and fur, heated the walls of the house, gulya stuck, burned terribly, her daughter Aisha glued it together; Gulya offers to go for melons; owner the iron house comes running to the field before her, fills one of the melons with his urine, the gulya eats it; next time the gulya goes for figs; the man climbed the fig tree, smeared the figs with his feces, became throw the drone, she ate them; went to buy firewood, the man climbed into the bundle in advance, when Gulya carried it, began to stab it with an awl; she hardly carried the firewood home, found a man there, told his daughter cook, went to call the other guli; the man asked A. to untie him, he would help her break the wood; cooked her herself, put on her dress; Gulya and the guests ate A.; the man suggests that the gula take out her lice, pours oil on his head and sets fire; ghulya burned down, all the gold went to man]: 176-182; Iraqi Arabs (Mosul) [three guys saw a witch approaching; Hadeidan asked God for a hot palace from iron, Rovshan made of feathers, Archishan made of straw; the witch easily destroyed palaces made of feathers and straw, swallowed children, could not destroy the iron palace; her aunts advised to send a donkey to the boy He rode it and then smear the donkey's back with resin; H. stuck, advised him not to eat it right away, to fatten it first; the witch went to invite her aunts to eat, told her daughter to slaughter and cook H.; that offered the witch's daughter to help sharpen the knife, stabbed her, fed the meat to her mother and guests, ran away; the witch went to her relative and died]: Yaremenko 1990, No. 32:167-169.
The Balkans. Hungarians [three little pigs live in a haystack; the wolf ate one; the other two built a wooden house; the wolf broke in and ate another one; the latter built a brick house; the wolf tries to lure out a pig outside, but that one is more cunning than a wolf; then the wolf climbs through the chimney, scalded or burned]: Kovács 1987, No. 124B*: 272-273; Greeks: Uther 2004 (1), No. 124:95-96.
Central Europe. Ukrainians (Eastern Slovakia) [A pig builds a house for himself: a wolf tries to destroy it: in vain]: SUS 1979, No. 124A*: 73; Luzhitans: Uther 2004 (1), No. 124:95-96.