| The Three Little Men in the Wood | |
|---|---|
 Illustration by Arthur Rackham, 1917. | |
| Folk tale | |
| Name | The Three Little Men in the Wood |
| Aarne–Thompson grouping | ATU 403B |
| Country | Germany |
| Published in | Grimm's Fairy Tales |
"The Three Little Men in the Wood" or "The Three Little Gnomes in the Forest" (German: Die drei Männlein im Walde) is a German fairy tale collected in 1812 by the Brothers Grimm in Grimm's Fairy Tales (KHM 13).[1] Andrew Lang included it in The Red Fairy Book (1890) as "The Three Dwarfs,"[2] and a version of the tale appears in A Book of Dwarfs (1964) by Ruth Manning-Sanders.
It is Aarne-Thompson type 403B ("The Black and the White Bride"), with an episode of type 480 ("The Kind and the Unkind Girls").[1]
- ^ a b Ashliman, D. L. (2003). "The Three Little Men in the Woods". University of Pittsburgh.
- ^ Andrew Lang, The Red Fairy Book, "The Three Dwarfs"