Jennifer RAYNOR: Well, I don’t know about fairy tales, but I know that the colonial history of wolves in the United States would suggest that, at that time, wolves were really problematic. And centuries earlier too, in one of Aesop’s fables, “The Boy Who Cried Wolf.” All these fictional wolves have something in common: they want to eat you and ruin the things you treasure. And in the Russian musical story “Peter and the Wolf,” by Sergei Prokofiev. But the Big Bad Wolf also shows up in German folk tales, like “Little Red Riding Hood” from the Brothers Grimm. “The Three Little Pigs” is an English fairy tale which was later turned into a short animated film produced by Walt Disney. It’s also protection against you know who…ĭISNEY : Who’s afraid of the Big Bad Wolf, Big Bad Wolf, Big Bad Wolf. It could also be that the three pigs have different risk preferences because a house isn’t just for sleeping in. If you had to guess, you might imagine that cost is a factor - and, who knows, maybe supply-chain issues. Why do these three similar-seeming pigs use such different building materials? The original story doesn’t tell us why. The first one builds a house from straw the second one, sticks and the third one, from bricks. You’ve probably heard this story before: “Once upon a time, there were three little pigs.” Each pig is building a house.
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