The Three Dogs

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The Three Dogs is a German fairy tale. Andrew Lang included it in The Green Fairy Book, listing his source as the Brothers Grimm. A version of this tale appears in A Book of Dragons by Ruth Manning-Sanders.

It is Aarne-Thompson type 562, The Spirit in the Blue Light.^[1] Other tales of this type include The Blue Light and The Tinderbox.^[2]