Three Little Pigs and the Number Three

Dateline May 27, 1933 – The Walt Disney Company releases the cartoon Three Little Pigs, with its hit song "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?" Based on a fairy tale of the same name, Three Little Pigs won the 1934 Academy Award for Best Short Subject: Cartoons. In 1994, it was voted #11 of the 50 Greatest Cartoons of all time by members of the animation field.

 Practical Pig, Fiddler Pig and Fifer Pig are three brothers who build their own houses with bricks, sticks and straw respectively. All three of them play a different kind of musical instrument – Fifer Pig plays the flute, Fiddler Pig plays the fiddle and Practical Pig plays the piano. Fifer and Fiddler build their straw and stick houses with much ease and have fun all day. Practical, on the other hand, works all day long to build his strong brick house, but his two brothers poke fun at him. An angry Practical warns them that if they don't build a better house, the Big Bad Wolf will threaten their lives (saying "You can play and laugh and fiddle. Don't think you can make me sore. I'll be safe and you'll be sorry when the Wolf comes through your door!"). Fifer and Fiddler ignore him and continue to play, singing the now famous song "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?".

One day, the Big Bad Wolf really comes by, and blows Fifer's house down (except for the roof). Fifer manages to escape and hides at Fiddler's house. The wolf pretends to give up and go home, but returns disguised as an innocent sheep. The pigs see through the disguise ("Not by the hair of our chinny-chin-chin! You can't fool us with that old sheep skin!"), whereupon the Wolf blows Fiddler's house down (except for the door). The two pigs manage to escape and hide at Practical's house. The Wolf arrives disguised as a Fuller Brush man to trick the pigs into letting him in, but fails. The Wolf then tries to blow down the strong brick house (losing his clothing in the process), but is unable. Finally, he attempts to enter the house through the chimney, but smart Practical Pig takes off the lid of a boiling pot filled with water (to which he adds turpentine) under the chimney, and the Wolf falls right into it. Shrieking in pain, the Wolf runs away frantically, while the pigs sing "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?" again. Then Practical plays a trick on the others by knocking on his piano, causing the other two pigs to think the Wolf has returned and hide under Practical's bed again.

 Food for thought on number three:
-  Atoms consist of three constituents: protons, neutrons, and electrons.
-  Earth is the third planet in its local Solar System.
-  Humans perceive white light as the mixture of the three additive primary hues: red, green, and blue.
 - Counting to three is common in situations where a group of people wish to perform an action in synchrony: Now, on the count of three, everybody pull!
  - Luck, especially bad luck, is often said to "come in threes"
-  Many world religions contain triple deities or concepts of trinity, including:

• the Christian Holy Trinity the Father, the Son (Jesus Christ), and the Holy Spirit
• the Hindu Trimurti : Brahma the Creator, Vishnu the Preserver, and Shiva the Destroyer.
• the Hindu Tridevi (3 godesses) Saraswati, Lakshmi and Parvati.
• the Three Jewels of Buddhism (Buddha, Dharma, Sangha)
• the Three Pure Ones of Taoism

 - For Christrianity, the number three is significant in the following:

• Three people (including Jesus) were crucified at the Crucifixion
• Three main theological virutes s Faith, Hope, and Charity
•  three realms of the afterlife: Heaven, Hell and Purgatory 
• The three members of the Holy Family: Jesus, Mary, and Joseph.
• The Three Wise Men who visited Jesus after His birth left Him three gifts.

The number three seemed to be a lucky number for novels, stories and films.

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