The Wolf and the Seven Young Kids
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The Wolf and the Seven Young Kids (original: Der Wolf und die sieben Geißlein) is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm, tale number 5.[1] It is Aarne-Thompson type 123.,[2] but has a strong resemblance to The Three Little Pigs and other Aarne-Thomspson type 124 folktales, and to the variant of Little Red Riding Hood that the Grimms collected, where she is rescued.[3]
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- A spoof of this story appears in an episode of The Noozles, with the goat family replaced with a koala family and the wolf replaced by a human who plans to sell them to a zoo.
- In Richard Scarry's version of the story, the wolf was supposed to eat the kids when he gets into their house. Instead, he puts them into a large sack and tries to take it back to his cave. While the wolf is napping the mother goat cuts the sack open and frees the kids. She then fills it with stones. When the wolf returns home and finds he's been tricked, he vows to return, but a police officer arrives to interrogate him about his earlier thieveries. He goes out to his well to ditch the stones, but ends up falling down the well with them. Notably, this same wolf appeared in Scarry's version of The Three Little Pigs as well.
- There is movie based on this fable called Rock'n'Roll Wolf in English, and "Mama" in Russian and Romanian. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ma-ma
- There is children's tabletop game based on this tale, The Uncatchables (Nicht zu fassen),[4] designed by Fréderic Moyersoen and originally published in Germany in a multilingual edition by Zoch in 2009.[5]
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- ^ Jacob and Wilheim Grimm Household Tales. "The Wolf and the FIVE Young Kids". http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/authors/grimms/5wolfsevenkids.html.
- ^ D. L. Ashliman, The Grimm Brothers' Children's and Household Tales"
- ^ D. L.Ashliman]], The Wolf and the Seven Young Kids
- ^ "Nicht zu fassen German game description" (in German). Zoch. 2009. http://www.zoch-verlag.com/spiele/kinderspiele/nicht-zu-fassen.html. Retrieved 2009-11-16.
- ^ "The Uncatchables English game rules". Zoch. 2009. http://www.zoch-verlag.com/fileadmin/user_upload/Spielregeln/Kinderspieleregeln/Nicht_zu_fassen/NZF-int-Regel-lowres-En.pdf. Retrieved 2009-11-16.
