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Unknown origin. Likely England.

The name of the original author (or story-teller) is lost in history. The story first appeared in print in the 1840s but it is much older.

The tale of the Three Little Pigs and the Big Bad Wolf was included in Nursery Rhymes and Nursery Tales by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, first published around 1843.

The story in its arguably best-known form appeared in English Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs, first published in 1898 and crediting Halliwell as his source.

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