The following tales are similar to the Three Little Pigs fairy tale, AT-124. I have included the English language tales of this type which have been gathered by title by D. L. Ashliman in his A Guide to Folktales in the English Language. Sometimes I include tales of other classifications when I deem them relevant to the theme. The tales come from many cultures and are similar to the Three Little Pigs story in various ways. I have placed the tales in alphabetical order with bibliographic information and links to texts of the stories if a text is available on the internet.

The Awful Fate of Mister Wolf *
The Fox and the Geese
The Fox and the Pixies
Lambikin *
The Little Blue Bonnet
The Little Geese
Old Sow and the Three Shoats
The Pigs
The Sow and the Wolf
The Story of the Pigs *
The Three Cottages
The Three Goslings *
The Three Hares
The Three Little Pigs I *
The Three Little Pigs II *
The Three Little Pigs (Ozarks)
The Three Pullets
The Three Wee Pigs
The Wolf and the Seven Kids *

* Full text of tale is available online.

A web version of this tale as Harris originally wrote it is available at The Awful Fate of Mr. Wolf. Another web version of this tale with normalized dialect is available on D. L. Ashliman's site at The Awful Fate of Mr. Wolf.

This tale is AT-124.

An English language version is available in:

Harris, Joel Chandler. Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1880.

The entire text for Harris' Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings is available at the Gutenberg Project at: ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/docs/books/gutenberg/etext00/remus10.txt

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A web version of this tale does not exist due to copyright restrictions.

This tale is AT-124.

An English language version is available in:

Briggs, Katherine M., ed. A Dictionary of British Folk-Tales in the English Language. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1970, 1971.

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A web version of this tale does not exist due to copyright restrictions.

This tale is AT-124.

An English language version is available in:

Briggs, Katherine M., ed. A Dictionary of British Folk-Tales in the English Language. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1970, 1971.

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A web version of this tale is available at Lambikin.

In his notes for the Three Little Pigs, Joseph Jacobs' references a similar plot device with the butter churn in an Indian (India, not Native American) tale, titled "Lambikin," which appeared in Wide-Awake Stories (1884) by Flora Annie Steel and R. C. Temple. In the story, "the Lambikin gets inside a Drumikin, and so nearly escapes the jackal" (Jacobs 1890).

An English language version is available in:

Jacobs, Joseph. Indian Fairy Tales. London: David Nutt, 1912.
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Steel, Flora Annie and R. C. Temple. Wide-Awake Stories: A Collection of Tales. London: Education Society's Press, 1884.

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A web version of this tale does not exist due to copyright restrictions.

This tale is AT-124.

An English language version is available in:

Gmelch, George and Ben Kroup, eds. To Shorten the Road. Toronto: Macmillian of Canada, 1978.

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This tale is AT-124.

An English language version is available in:

Calvino, Italo. Italian Folktales. George Martin, translator. New York: Pantheon Books, 1980.
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This tale is AT-124.

An English language version is available in:

Chase, Richard, ed. Grandfather Tales: American-English Folk Tales. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1948.
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This tale is AT-124.

An English language version is available in:

Harris,Joel Chandler. Nights with Uncle Remus: Myths and Legends of the Old Plantation. Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1883.

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This tale is AT-124.

An English language version is available in:

Delarue, Paul, ed. The Borzoi Book of French Folk Tales. Austin E. Fife, translator. New York: Alfred E. Knopf, 1956.
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A web version of this tale is available on D. L. Ashliman's site at: The Story of the Pigs.

This tale is AT-124.

An English language version is available in:

Ashliman's Source: Joel Chandler Harris, The Complete Tales of Uncle Remus, compiled by Richard Chase (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1955), pp. 145-148.

Chase's source: Joel Chandler Harris, Nights with Uncle Remus: Myths and Legends of the Old Plantation (Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1883), no. 8.

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A web version of this tale does not exist due to copyright restrictions.

This tale is AT-124.

An English language version is available in:

Calvino, Italo. Italian Folktales. George Martin, translator. New York: Pantheon Books, 1980.
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A web version of this tale is available at The Three Goslings.

This tale is AT-124.

An English language version is available in:

Crane, Thomas Frederick. Italian Popular Tales. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1885.
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A web version of this tale does not exist due to copyright restrictions.

The story of The Three Hares comes from Turkey.

This tale is AT-124.

An English language version is available in:

Cole, Joanna, ed. Best-Loved Folktales of the World. Garden City, NY: Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1982.
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Kent, Margery, editor. Fairy Tales from Turkey. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1946.

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The Joseph Jacobs version of the tale is presented on this site with annotations at The Three Little Pigs. A web version of the Briggs' tale does not exist due to copyright restrictions.

The Three Little Pigs I is based on James Orchard Halliwell's version of the tale, one of the first known examples of the tale in print.

This tale is AT-124.

An English language version is available in:

Briggs, Katherine M., ed. A Dictionary of British Folk-Tales in the English Language. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1970, 1971.

Jacobs, Joseph. English Fairy Tales. London: David Nutt, 1890.
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Halliwell, James Orchard. Popular Rhymes and Nursery Tales. London: John Russell Smith, 1849.

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A web version of Andrew Lang's tale is available at The Three Little Pigs. A web version of the Briggs' tale does not exist due to copyright restrictions.

The Three Little Pigs I is based on Andrew Lang's version of the tale. I do not have information on Lang's sources for his version.

This tale is AT-124.

An English language version is available in:

Briggs, Katherine M., ed. A Dictionary of British Folk-Tales in the English Language. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1970, 1971.

Lang, Andrew, ed. The Green Fairy Book. New York: Dover, 1965. (Original published 1892.)
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A web version of this tale does not exist due to copyright restrictions.

This tale is AT-124.

An English language version is available in:

Randolph, Vance. Who Blowed Up the Church? and Other Ozark Folk Tales. New York: Columbia University Press, 1952.

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A web version of this tale does not exist due to copyright restrictions.

This tale is AT-124.

An English language version is available in:

Delarue, Paul, ed. The Borzoi Book of French Folk Tales. Austin E. Fife, translator. New York: Alfred E. Knopf, 1956.
Amazon.com: Buy it in hardcover.

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A web version of this tale does not exist due to copyright restrictions.

This tale is AT-124.

An English language version is available in:

Briggs, Katherine M., ed. A Dictionary of British Folk-Tales in the English Language. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1970, 1971.

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A web version of this tale is available at The Wolf and the Seven Kids.

While not classified as AT-124, Joseph Jacobs noted the similarities between this tale and The Three Little Pigs. He speculated that the hair on the chins of the pigs was taken from this story.

An English language version is available in:

Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm. Household Tales. Margaret Hunt, translator. London: George Bell, 1884.

Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm. The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm. Jack Zipes, translator. New York: Bantam, 1987.
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