The Wolf and the Seven Young Kids

A mother goat, leaving her seven young kids alone to search for food in the forest, warned them sternly never to open the door for anyone, since a wolf was known to prowl the area and would happily eat them all if given the chance. Soon after she left, the wolf arrived at the door disguised his voice as best he could, but the kids recognized his rough, deep voice at once and refused to open up.

Undeterred, the wolf ate chalk to soften his voice and returned, but the kids, peering under the door, spotted his black paws and turned him away again. On his third attempt, having covered his paws in white flour from a baker, the wolf's disguise finally fooled them, and the kids opened the door — only for the wolf to burst in and swallow six of them whole. The youngest, hiding inside a clock case, escaped notice entirely.

When the mother goat returned and learned what had happened, she and the youngest kid found the wolf asleep and snoring in the meadow, his belly full and round. Carefully, she cut open his stomach and freed all six kids, alive and unharmed, then filled his belly with heavy stones and sewed it shut. When the wolf woke and stumbled to a well for water, the weight of the stones dragged him in, and he drowned — the goat family reunited and safe at last.