The Wolf and the Seven Young Kids

"The Wolf and the Seven Young Kids" is a fairy tale first collected by the Brothers Grimm in 1812. The story involves seven kids (young goats) who are left in their house by their mother and warned not to let the wolf in. After several failed attempts, the wolf successfully impersonates their mother and eats all but one of the kids. When the mother goat returns, she seeks out the wolf and finds, in the fashion of fairy tale wolves, he has eaten her offspring whole. Thus she is able to cut his stomach open and save her family, substituting stones and sewing up the still living but sleeping wolf.
==References==
* Ernie & Bert Märchensongs adapted the story, reducing the number of goats to two (played by Ernie and Bert). The wolf was played by the established Wolf used on Sesamstrasse and Eine Möhre für Zwei.
* The story was adapted for Muppets Meet the Classics: Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm, as "Veterinarian's Hospital Makes a House Call." In this version, the mother is Miss Piggy who adopted seven piglets. Gorgon Heap as a goblin is the antagonist, and the "Vet's Hospital" team perform surgery on him.
==External links==
*English translation of the Brothers Grimm version
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Category:Literary References
Category:Fairy Tales