The Three Little Wolves – “The Three Little Pigs”
https://wiki.wizard101central.com/wiki/Quest:The_Three_Little_Wolves
https://wiki.wizard101central.com/wiki/Creature:Brick_Wolf_(Myth)
https://wiki.wizard101central.com/wiki/Creature:Timber_Wolf_(Ice)
https://wiki.wizard101central.com/wiki/Creature:The_Last_Straw
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Three_Little_Pigs
Learning to weave Balance, Harmony sends your wizard to learn the ways of Balance with Daring Daisuke. Daisuke takes you to Mooshu where you enter the House of Ghosts and replay this battle. These memories are stitched eternally in the veil.
Daring Daisuke fought off the Brick Wolves by blowing away their camp in a sandstorm. The mangy mutts thought Mooshu was an easy target while the emperor was in seclusion striving for immortality. Valiantly the Ninja Pig defeated the Timber Wolf as well. Victoriously, Daisuke defeated the Last Straw as well.
Brick Wolf (Myth): “Did… did a pig just blow away our camp in a sandstorm?”
Brick Wolf (Death): “That does appear to be the case, yeah.”
Brick Wolf (Myth): “I didn’t know they could do that.”
Daring Daisuke: “And now, invaders, you are going to learn a great many things we can do! Is what I thought at the time. Naturally, all I said was…”
Timber Wolf (Ice): “This land is ours. Its fields are ours. Its trees ours, all of it is ours. You dare to stand in our way?”
Daring Daisuke: “I do!”
The Last Straw: “The rogue swine comes to me at last. Good. I was feeling hungry.”
Daring Daisuke: “And I am feeling stabby.”
The Last Straw (speaking as Peaceful Draconian): “Silent as ever. No matter. We serve no one! You never understood that, Unaliver. You blinded yourself to truth to serve your campaign of destruction! No more. We are servants to Death no more. No matter how many of us you fight, you will never change that.”
Daring Daisuke: “What did you say?”
The Last Straw: “I said my stomach growls loud enough for us both!”
“The Three Little Pigs” is a fable about three pigs who build their houses of different materials. A Big Bad Wolf blows down the first two pigs’ houses which are made of straw and sticks respectively, but is unable to destroy the third pig’s house that is made of bricks. The printed versions of this fable date back to the 1840s, but the story is thought to be much older. The earliest version takes place in Dartmoor with three pixies and a fox before its best known version appears in English Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs in 1890, with Jacobs crediting James Halliwell-Phillipps as the source. In 1886, Halliwell-Phillipps had published his version of the story, in the fifth edition of his Nursery Rhymes of England, and it included, for the first time in print, the now-standard phrases “not by the hair of my chiny chin chin” and “I’ll huff, and I’ll puff, and I’ll blow your house in”.
“The Three Little Pigs” was included in The Nursery Rhymes of England (London and New York, c.1886), by James Halliwell-Phillipps. The story in its arguably best-known form appeared in English Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs, first published on June 19, 1890, and crediting Halliwell as his source. The earliest published version of the story is from Dartmoor, Devon, England in 1853, and has three little pixies and a fox in place of the three pigs and a wolf. The first pixy had a wooden house:
“Let me in, let me in”, said the fox.
“I won’t”, was the pixy’s answer; “and the door is fastened.”
The story begins with the title characters being sent out into the world by their mother, to “seek out their fortune”. The first little pig builds a house out of straw, but the wolf blows it down and devours him. The second little pig builds a house out of sticks, but the result is the same. Each exchange between wolf and pig features ringing proverbial phrases, namely:
“Little pig, little pig, let me come in.”
“No, not by the hair on my chinny chin chin.”
“Then I’ll huff, and I’ll puff, and I’ll blow your house in.”
The third little pig builds a house out of bricks, which the wolf fails to blow down. The wolf then attempts to meet the pig at a turnip field, an apple orchard, and a fair, but the pig always arrives early and avoids the wolf. Finally, the infuriated wolf resolves to come down the chimney, whereupon the pig lights a fire under a pot of water on the fireplace. The wolf falls in and is fatally boiled, avenging the death of his brothers. After cooking the wolf, the pig proceeds to eat him for dinner.
The current list of all the (known) Mooshu references are located here.
Although I am well versed in Pop Culture references but I do not claim to have caught them all. Let me know your favorites in the comments and if I’ve missed one you caught, let me know so I can add it to the list.
Text for this article is excerpted from the linked wiki pages
Brick Wolf, Timber Wolf, and The Last Straw images are from Wizard101, and are copyright of KingsIsle Entertainment.
The Three Little Pigs artwork is borrowed from Adobe Stock.
English Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs image is borrowed from Amazon.com
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