3 little piggies went to market

Social media post reveals the unsettling truth about the first little piggy – Chicago Tribune

It had been many years since I’d thought of the five little piggies, protagonists of the first nursery rhyme I told my kids, the first nursery rhyme I heard and probably the first nursery rhyme my parents heard.

My children are young adults now, but back before they could walk, my wife and I would take their little bare feet in our hands as they lay in their cribs, wiggle each toe in succession starting with the big toe and … say it with me:

“This little piggy went to market, this little piggy stayed home, this little piggy had roast beef, this little piggy had none and this little piggy …” the pinkie toe, voice rising to falsetto, “… cried wee wee wee all the way home.”

Tickles. Giggles. Repeat.

It always struck me as a little weird that a pig would be eating roast beef. Is there no solidarity in the barnyard? But pigs are, in fact, omnivores. In 2012, according to news reports, they ate a 69-year-old farmer in Oregon after he fell in their pen.

Then the other day I was browsing my Twitter feed when I saw a posting from @AngelicGirlxD that changed everything: “I’m 22 years old,” she wrote Aug. 20, “and I just realized that ‘This little piggy went to … market’ doesn’t mean he went food shopping.”

Ye gods. Of course! All these years I’d had in my mind’s eye the image of a pig standing on two feet, a hat on its head and a basket under its “arm,” waddling off to the grocery store to purchase edibles: apples. Carrots. Grain. Farmer-flavored biscuits.

But no. Obviously, no. I’m 60 years old, and I just realized that the fattest little piggy — the big toe — was being sold into slaughter. It went to the market, sure, but it never came back.

Many of the best-loved nursery rhymes have dark elements. Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater “couldn’t keep” his wife so he “put her in a pumpkin shell, and there he kept her very well” in domestic servitude and bondage.

Georgie Porgie “kissed the girls and made them cry,” making him the central villain in numerous #MeToo stories.

“Goosey Goosey Gander” takes a grim turn and becomes fodder for a PBS documentary about elder abuse and religious violence when the narrator meets “an old man who wouldn’t say his prayers” and accordingly takes “him by the left leg” and throws him “down the stairs.”

And for potentially life-threatening injuries, you can’t beat the hapless infant’s plunge from the treetop at the end of “Rock-a-Bye Baby.”

In contrast, the piggies from the rhyme that dates back several hundred years, always seemed like a merry lot. Sure, one stayed home, and one, for some reason, did not eat roast beef. But the wee-wee-wee was a squeal of porcine delight at the prospect of returning to the sty, right?

Yet the fate of the biggest oinker was always there in plain sight. It didn’t go to market, it was taken to be marketed. It had no agency. It was a product, not a customer.

Wee-wee-wee becomes the fearful yet ultimately fruitless cry of a creature that realizes it, too, was born to be sold and eaten.

This may be why some more sensitive souls have posted revisions that avoid the uncomfortable topic of butchery: “This little piggy ate blueberries/ This little piggy ate cheese ...” for example.

@AngelicGirlxD — her profile says she’s from Brooklyn — was not the first to post on this topic. I searched and found several piggy truther discussion threads over the years. But her tweet has gone viral and so far prompted more than 3,000 responses, many of them anguished:

“My whole childhood was a lie.” “I hate my newfound knowledge; ignorance was better.” “I don’t even know what’s real anymore.” “You've just made me very sad.” “He died?!?!! Noooooooooooo!” And so on.

I posted click polls to Facebook and Twitter to try to measure reaction to this observation. On both platforms, only 18 percent of some 200 respondents claimed to have known that the first pig in the rhyme was not, in sad fact, off to pick up a few things at the store but instead was off to meet its maker. In comments, some have blamed illustrators of children's books for perpetuating the happier interpretation.

The results mean that, although 100 percent of you will find this topic trivial in light of all that is going on in the world, more than 80 percent of you will nevertheless find it relevant. As for me, when I have grandchildren, that first little piggy is going to go to Aldi.

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What does 'this little piggy went to market' mean? It's darker than you think

Coming into adulthood you start to realise, not all is as it seemed growing up. We learn things like the Tooth Fairy and Santa Clause are fictional, the Boogeyman is an allegory and children’s nursery rhymes often have dark meanings. People are now wondering about the real meaning behind “this little piggy went to market”. Keep reading to find out!

What does ‘this little piggy went to market’ mean?

“What does this little piggy went to market mean?”, you ask. Let’s break it down for you.

The nursery rhyme “This little piggy” goes like this:

This little piggy went to the market,
This little piggy stayed home,
This little piggy had roast beef,
This little piggy had none,
And this little piggy cried wee wee wee all the way home.

Sounds fun, right? The rhyme is recited to toddlers while holding up one toe at a time. Each toe representing a piggy, with the final “pig” being the pinky toe.

However, the rhyme has a pretty dark meaning behind it, that many people are just finding out about now. Social media users have taken to Reddit and Twitter startled at the innocence-crushing meaning behind ‘this little piggy went to market”.

THIS LITTLE PIGGY WENT TO MARKET MEANT HE WASN’T GOING SHOPPING?! pic.twitter.com/fuCqoFv3Y4
— sincerely, ivy marie. (@sincerelyivy) February 11, 2021

i was today years old when i realized this little piggy wasn’t going shopping :/ https://t. co/nKGookMMuo
— ♡ nat ♡ (@nawilliams_19) February 10, 2021

The real meaning is darker than you think

The real meaning behind the nursery rhyme is this:

“This little piggy went to market” means that it was more than likely butchered and sold off to a market, or was on its way to the slaughterhouse.

“This little piggy stayed home” – it managed to survive another day without being slaughtered and is safe, for now.

“This little piggy had roast beef”: this unfortunate piggy was being fattened up to be sold for a pretty penny. It was likely fed a cow that lived on the same farm, whom it was more than likely familiar with.

“This little piggy had none.” This pig was being starved. A farmer would not starve its pig unless they wanted it to eat anything in sight – say, the dismembered body of something or someone you are trying to get rid of.

“This little piggy cried wee wee wee all the way home” – this pig was sent back to the farm to be slaughtered another day, the “wee wee wee” being squeals of terror.

The real meaning behind each little piggy represents a horrifying intrusion of the real world into kids’ nursery rhymes – and serves as a stark reminder about how meat is harvested.

This Twitter user couldn’t have explained it better:

This little piggy:
This little piggy was sold to the slaughterhouse, this little piggy's turn will come, this little piggy was forced to eat his cow friend to get fattened up, this little piggy starved, and this little piggy screamed in terror all the way home to await his fate.
— RacerxJax 🌈 #ExpelSeditionists (@RacerxJax) February 11, 2021

Origin of the nursery rhyme: This Little Piggy

The first appearance of This Little Pig was in Tommy Thumb’s little storybook circa 1760. It appeared in the book alongside popular British children’s rhymes such as Little Boy Blue, Baa Baa Black Sheep, Hickory Dickory Dock and London Bridge Is Falling Down.

This Little Piggy is now commonly used in British households and playgrounds, with many kids none the wiser to its real meaning. We can finally understand the expression “ignorance is bliss.”

Other dark children’s rhymes

Other rhymes that are not as they seem include:

Mary, Mary Quite Contrary

This rhyme is said to have been based on Queen Mary I, otherwise known as Bloody Mary. This is how it goes:

Mary, quite contrary, how does your garden grow?
With silver bells and cockle shells and pretty maids all in a row.

According to Closer, “silver bells and cockle shells were instruments of torture” that were used to murder Protestants at a time when Protestants and Catholics were at war with one another. The garden refers to Queen Mary’s personal burial grounds for those she had killed.

Ring Around The Rose

The meaning behind this rhyme relates to The Great Plague of London, 1665. The rhyme goes: “Ring Around The Rosie, Ring around the rosie, Pocket full of posies, Ashes, Ashes, we all fall down. ”

Seems harmless enough, right? Kids would hold hands and skip in a circle while singing in innocent play. The real meaning, however, holds a dark history.

The “rosie” in the song related to the redness and skin eruptions that were seen on many afflicted with the plague. Posies were a type of flower, used in the beaks and masks of doctors to cover the smell of death. Finally, “we all fall down” refers to all the victims of the plague that perished.

There are many other nursery rhymes that feature themes such as murder, death, prostitution, such as London’s Burning, Three Blind Mice, Jack & Jill and more! You just have to REALLY listen to the words.

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What the Three Little Pigs Teaches (Analysis

The history of the fairy tale

The Three Little Pigs is a fairy tale that is now part of our culture. Initially, the story was written in England and, after adaptation, gained its popularity among residents not only of the United States

The very first published story, The Three Little Pigs, was written by James Orchard Halliwell in 1849. The story was published in a book called Popular Rhymes and Sleep Stories. 0006

It is still impossible to say for sure whether Halliwell, who later took the surname Halliwell-Phillips, created this story or simply carried it through the generations. Halliwell earned the approval of colleague Joseph Jacobs after he adapted the story for a book called English Tales.

Three little pigs

English fairy tale translated by S. Mikhalkov

Once upon a time there were three brothers in the world - three little pigs. All three were the same height, pink, cheerful, round. And all the piglets had the same funny twirling tails. And even the names of the piglets were similar. Their names were: Nif-Nif, Nuf-Nuf and Naf-Naf.

All summer they played, tumbled in the grass, lay in the sun, swam in warm puddles. So the whole warm summer passed. But then came the cold autumn. The sun was already warming weaker, gray clouds stretched over the yellowed forest. One morning, Naf-naf said to his brothers: - It's time for us to think about winter, I'm shivering all over from the cold. So it won't take long to catch a cold. Here's what I propose: let's build a warm house, and we will all live in it together under one roof. But other piglets did not want to work at all. In these last warm days, they liked tumbling, jumping in the meadow and just walking more than carrying heavy stones and digging the ground.

— No, we don’t want to now, we still have time! Winter is far away. We'll do it later, but now it's better to take a walk, - with these words, Nif-Nif rolled over his head into the fallen leaves.

Yes. I'll build a house for myself, - said Nuf-Nuf and fell right into a puddle. “So do I,” Nif-Nif added after him. - All right, do as you wish. Then I will build my own house. I won’t wait for you,” said Naf-Naf.

And he went to build himself a house. Every day it got colder and colder outside. But two careless brothers - piglets, Nif-Nif and Nuf-Nuf, did not think about anything and were in no hurry. They didn't want to get to work. And they continued to idle from morning to evening. The only thing they did was that from morning to evening they tumbled, jumped and tumbled from morning to evening. “Perhaps we’ll walk a little more today, and tomorrow morning we’ll get down to business.” they said. But the next day came, and everything started all over again. They continued to play and said the same things. And only when a huge puddle near the road began to be covered with a thin crust of ice in the morning, the loafers really decided to get to work.

Nif-Nif decided that it would be easier and faster to build a house out of straw. He did not consult with anyone, and so he did. He collected straw, and by the evening his house was ready. Nif-Nif laid the last straw on the roof of his new house, examined it, was very pleased and sang:

So, singing a song, he went in search of Nuf-Nuf. And Nuf-Nuf built himself a house nearby. He, too, wanted to quickly put an end to such an uninteresting and boring business. Therefore, I also decided to make myself a simpler house. At first, like Nif-Nif, he wanted to build himself a straw house. But then I thought that in winter it would be very cold in such a house. And then he decided that if you build a house from twigs and branches, then it will come out stronger and warmer. And so he did. He hammered stakes into the ground, intertwined them with twigs, piled dry branches on the roof, and by the evening his new house was ready. Nuf-Nuf walked around him several times, examining him with pride, and sang:

- I have a good house, A new house, a solid house, I am not afraid of rain and thunder, Rain and thunder, rain and thunder!

And at that moment Nif-Nif jumped out from behind the bushes into the clearing. - Well, now your house is completely ready! Nif-Nif said to his brother. - I told you that we can quickly cope with the construction of the house ourselves! And now we can play on and do whatever we want! - And let's go to Naf-Naf, see what kind of house he built for himself! - Nuf-Nuf said. - He hasn't shown up in a while. - Let's go and see. - Agreed Nif-Nif. And they, satisfied that they no longer have to worry about anything, went to Naf-Naf, singing merrily along the way.

And Naf-Naf has been building a stone house for several days now. At first he applied stones, kneaded clay, and now he was in no hurry to go anywhere, and slowly built himself a solid, reliable house in which he could hide from the wind, and from the rain, and from the cold. He made an oak door in his house. She came out heavy, strong, and was locked with a bolt so that the evil gray wolf from the neighboring forest could not climb into the house. When Nif-Nif and Nuf-Nuf came, he worked with might and main.

— What are you building? shouted the surprised Nif-Nif and Nuf-Nuf in one voice. Is this a pig house, or a real fortress? “A pig’s house should be a real fortress!” - Naf-Naf answered them, and continued to work. "I wonder if you're going to fight someone?" - grunted laughing Nuf-Nuf and winked at Nif-Nif. And the two brothers of the piglet were so merry that their grunts and squeals resounded all over the lawn far, far away. And Naf-Naf himself continued, as if nothing had happened, laying the stone wall of his house, and at the same time he hummed this song under his breath:0006

- Of course, I'm smarter than everyone, smarter than everyone, smarter than everyone! I build a house from stones, From stones, from stones! No animal in the world, Cunning animal, terrible animal, Will burst into this door, Into this door, into this door!

— What animal is he talking about? - Nuf-Nuf asked Nif-Nif. What animal are you singing about? Nif-Nif asked Naf-Naf. - I'm talking about the wolf! - Naf-Naf answered the brothers and laid another stone on the wall.

- Look, look at him! He appears to be afraid of the wolf! - said Nuf-Nuf. He must be afraid that the wolf will eat him! - added Nuf-Nuf. And the two little pigs cheered even more. - And what kind of wolves can there be in our forest? Nuf-Nuf laughed. “There are no wolves here! Naf-naf is just a coward! - added Nif-Nif. And both little pigs began to dance and sing:

- We are not afraid of the gray wolf, Gray wolf, gray wolf! Where do you go, stupid wolf, old wolf, dire wolf?

They really wanted to tease their brother, but Naf-Naf paid no attention to them at all.

-Okay, let's get out of here, Nif-Nif, - said Nuf-Nuf then. "There's nothing for us to do here!" And the two piglets went for a walk on. They sang and danced so loudly that when they entered the forest, they managed to wake up the wolf. He was sleeping peacefully under a tree, and when the piglets woke him up, he became very angry.

Who is making that noise? he grumbled in displeasure, and ran to the place where the grunting and squealing of two stupid little pigs could be heard. Just at this time, Nif-Nif, who saw wolves only in pictures, said to his brother: - Well, what kind of wolves can be in our forest! - And if a wolf appears, then we will grab him by the nose, so he will know with us! - Nuf-Nuf sang to his brother, who also had never seen a live wolf in his life. - Yes, we would first knock him down, then tie him up with ropes, and then kick him with another foot. Like this, like this! - Nif-Nif boasted and showed his brother how they would deal with the wolf. And the two little pigs sang again:

- We are not afraid of the gray wolf, Gray wolf, gray wolf! Where do you go, stupid wolf, old wolf, dire wolf?

And just at that time a real wolf came out from behind a big tree. He had such a toothy mouth, such a formidable look that a chill ran down the backs of Nif-Nif and Nuf-Nuf, and their thin tails twisted into a ring trembled finely. From fear, the poor piglets could not even move. The wolf gathered himself, clicked his teeth, prepared to jump, and only then the pigs came to their senses and rushed to their heels, squealing throughout the forest.

Pigs have never run so fast in their lives! They sparkled with their heels, kicked up a cloud of dust and ran, pushing their way through the bushes each to their own house. Nif-Nif was the first to reach his straw house. He managed to jump into his hut and slam the door in front of the wolf's nose.

- Unlock the door now! the wolf growled. "Otherwise I'll break it myself!" - No, I won't. grunted Nif-Nif. Through the door he could hear the breath of a terrible beast. "Open the door now!" the wolf growled again. - otherwise I’ll blow it now, and your whole house will shatter! But from fear, Nif-Nif could not answer him. Then the wolf began to blow on the house: “F-f-f-u-u-u-u-u-u-u!”. Straws flew from the roof of the house. The wolf took a deep breath and blew again: “F-f-f-u-u-u-u-u-u-u!”. The walls of the house shook. And then the wolf blew for the third time: “F-f-f-u-u-u-u-u-u-u!”. The pig's house could not resist and scattered in different directions.

Nif-Nif started to run, and the wolf snapped his teeth in front of his very nose. The pig flew through the forest without looking at the road, and in a minute he was near his brother's house. As soon as Nuf-Nuf let him in and locked the door, a wolf ran out onto the lawn in front of the house.

- Yeah! he growled. “Well, now I’ll eat you both.” Nuf-Nuf and Nif-Nif looked at each other in fear and trembled. But the wolf was also very tired, so he decided to go for a trick. - I must have changed my mind! he said so loudly that the pigs could hear him. “I will not eat those piglets. They are too skinny. I'd rather go home! -Heard? - Asked Nuf-Nuf and Nif-Nif? We are skinny! And that's why he won't eat us! -It's just wonderful! - said Nif-Nif. And his tail immediately stopped trembling.

The piglets immediately cheered up and sang their favorite song:

— We are not afraid of the gray wolf, Gray wolf, gray wolf! Where do you go, stupid wolf, old wolf, dire wolf?

In fact, the wolf was not going anywhere. He quietly hid on the sidelines. It was funny to him, and he tried very hard not to laugh. How easily he could fool two stupid little pigs.

When the piglets calmed down, the wolf put on a sheepskin and cautiously crept up to the house. He walked up to the door and knocked. Nuf-Nuf and Nif-Nif were very frightened when they heard a knock on the door. - Who's there? they asked, and the piglets' tails shook again. “It’s me, me, me, poor little sheep!” the gray wolf squeaked in a strange, thin voice. - I strayed from the herd and was very tired, let me spend the night! - Shall we sleep over? asked the kind Nif-Nif brother. - You can let the sheep go, the sheep is not a wolf! Nuf-Nuf agreed. But when the pigs slightly opened the door, they immediately saw not a sheep, but the same evil wolf. The brothers quickly slammed the door and leaned on it with all their might so that the terrible wolf could not break into them.

The wolf is angry. He again failed to outwit these piglets! He threw off his sheepskin and growled menacingly: - Well, wait a minute! Now there is nothing left of this house! And the wolf began to blow. The house leaned a little. The wolf blew a second time, then a third, and then a fourth. Leaves flew from the roof of the house, its walls trembled, but the house still stood. And, only when the angry wolf blew for the fifth time, the piglet's house staggered and collapsed.

Only one door stood for some time in the middle of the ruins of the former house. The piglets ran away in terror. From fear, the legs were taken away from the pigs, every bristle trembled, their noses were dry. The brothers rushed to the house of Naf-Naf. The wolf caught up with them with huge leaps. Once he almost grabbed Nuf-Nuf by the back leg, but he pulled it back in time and added speed.

The wolf, however, also pressed on. He was sure that this time the piglets would definitely not run away from him. But the wolf was out of luck again. The piglets quickly ran past a large apple tree without even hitting it. And the gray wolf did not have time to turn, and ran straight into the apple tree, which showered him with apples. One hard apple hit the wolf right between the eyes. A huge bump jumped up on the wolf's forehead.

And Nuf-Nuf and Nif-Nif at that time, neither alive nor dead, ran up to the house of Naf-Naf. Naf-Naf quickly let them into his house. The poor piglets were so frightened that they could not say anything at all. They just silently threw themselves under the bed, and hid under the bed.

Clever Naf-Naf immediately guessed that the wolf was chasing his brothers. But Naf-Naf had nothing to fear in a strong stone house. He quickly bolted the door, and he sat down on a chair and sang loudly:

- No animal in the world, Cunning animal, terrible animal, Will not open this door, This door, this door!

But just then the wolf knocked on the door. - Who's there? asked Naf-Naf in a calm voice. “Open it now, and without further ado!” came the rough voice of an evil wolf. - Yeah, no matter how! I don't even think to open it! Naf-Naf declared in a firm voice. - Ah well! Well then hold on! Now I'll eat all three of you! - Try it, eat it! - Naf-Naf answered him from behind the door, not even getting up from the chair on which he was sitting. He knew that in a solid stone house, the three little pigs could not be afraid of anything. Then the wolf sucked in more air into his chest and blew as hard as he could!

But no matter how hard he blew, not even the tiniest stone moved. The wolf even turned blue from the effort. And the house stood like an impregnable fortress. Then the wolf began to shake the door. But the door didn't want to budge either. The wolf, out of anger, began to scratch the walls of the house with his claws and even gnaw the stones from which they were composed, but all he achieved was that he only broke off his claws and ruined his teeth. The angry and hungry wolf had no choice but to get out. But then the wolf raised his head up and suddenly noticed a large, wide chimney on the roof.

- Yeah! Perhaps through this pipe I will be able to get into this impregnable house! the wolf rejoiced. He cautiously climbed onto the roof of the house and listened. It was very quiet inside the house. “I’ll probably have a snack today, after all, with fresh pork!” - thought the wolf, licked his lips, and climbed into the pipe. But, as soon as the wolf began to descend into the house through the pipe, the pigs inside immediately heard a rustle. And when soot began to pour from the chimney onto the lid of the boiler in the fireplace, smart Naf-Naf immediately guessed what was the matter.

Naf-Naf quickly rushed to the cauldron, in which water was already boiling on the fire, and tore off the lid from the cauldron. - Welcome! - Naf-Naf said with a smile and winked at his brothers. Nuf-Nuf and Nif-Nif had already completely calmed down and, smiling contentedly, looked at their brave and smart brother. The three piglets did not have to wait long. Black as a chimney sweep, the wolf fell right into the boiling water. Never before has a wolf been in so much pain!

His eyes instantly popped out on his forehead, all his hair immediately stood on end. With a loud roar, the wolf flew through the chimney back to the roof, then rolled down it to the ground, rolled over its head four times, then drove past the locked door on its tail and rushed into the forest.

And three little pigs, three brothers, looked after him and rejoiced that they could so cleverly deceive the evil robber. And they sang their favorite song:

- You'll go around half the world, You'll go around, you'll go around, You won't find a better home, You won't find it, you won't find it!

No animal in the world, Cunning animal, terrible animal, Will not open this door, This door, this door!

The wolf from the forest will never, Never, never Will come back to us here, To us here, to us here!

And from that day on, the three little pigs began to live together, in a stone house, under one roof. That's all we can tell about three brothers, three little pigs - Nif-Nif, Nuf-Nuf and Naf-Naf.

What the fairy tale is about

The main storyline of the fairy tale is the story of three little pigs, each of which builds a house.

In this case, the main characters of the fairy tale three little pigs act as follows:

The first little pig spends a little time building his house from straw and spends all the remaining time on rest and games.
The second pig builds his future home with sticks, works a little more than the first pig, but also spends a lot of time relaxing and lounging.
The third pig decided to build his house out of bricks, which made him spend a lot of time and effort on it. He diligently calculates his time for building a house, denying himself the proper rest.

When the big dire wolf found the house, only the house of the third pig survived the attack of the enemy.

Three little pigs, cartoon by R. Saakyants

Symbolism of materials for building a house

User Redhood_true wrote in her LiveJournal:

Straw - basic meanings: emptiness, barrenness, weakness, uselessness, lightness, transience.

Brushwood - basic meanings: oppression, danger, fear, sacrifice (the brushwood is thrown into the fire).

Stone - main meanings: internal, reliable, protective and giving confidence system of beliefs. If so, then it turns out that the first pig tried not to notice the dark forest around and its inner house was light and airy, but so fragile. It can be said that piglets with straw houses live one day, forgetting about their safety. The second pig was, on the contrary, too depressive and cowardly, preferred to feel sorry for himself and hide from dangers. As a result, he was also eaten. The third piglet was self-confident, gave no reason to doubt his strength and did not show his weaknesses - he survived.

“What are you building? - the surprised Nif-Nif and Nuf-Nuf shouted in one voice. - What is it, a pig house or a fortress? “The pig’s house should be a fortress!” Naf-Naf calmly answered them, continuing to work.

If the wolf dealt with two houses made of straw and brushwood for one or two, then the stone camps of the third piglet were not given to him. In the English fairy tale there is a moment of temptation, which Sergei Mikhalkov decided to remove for some reason: the wolf lures the piglet out of the house, saying that sweet turnips have ripened in the garden. Piglet was not tempted. Then the wolf tries to seduce the smart pig with the fact that the apples are already red in the garden. The piglet climbs a tree for apples, and when a wolf appears, he throws an apple to him, and while he comes to his senses, he runs away to the house. Finally, the third test (note that the number three appears again) - the wolf sends to the market for a churn, but the pig again manages to escape from the gray beast.

What do these tests mean? Everything is simple here. The wolf is trying to break the pig. But how? The most difficult thing is with the turnip symbol - some sources say that this is a source of wealth (the turnip has grown - there will be lunch). In others, that the turnip is a symbol of oscillation between good and evil (its upper part is in the light (in the world of people), and the lower part is in the earth (the Kingdom of the Dead)). Apples are easier - this is a well-known symbol of sexual temptation. Finally, the churn is industriousness, but since this is what the Wolf tried to break the piglet with, it means a symbol of excessive workaholism, when a person loses his own Self and ceases to live a full life at work and profit.

How was the wolf defeated? He fell out of the pipe into a cauldron of boiling water. So there is another symbol in the fairy tale: boiling water - a quarrel, violent emotions, aggression. “boil with indignation”, “boil with indignation”, “boil” - get angry, swear, get annoyed .... That's what destroys angry people - themselves.

What is the story about? Yes, probably, about the ability to suppress internal aggression-malice, to tame it by building a stone dwelling inside oneself - without fear, without unjustified risk, without cowardice and recklessness. The message is simple: invest in your future brick by brick, do not be afraid and do not burn your life in vain. And most importantly, anger, quarrels, aggression - this is the same wolf that is in every piglet, but how we fight it determines whether the piglet will be eaten or will live happily in his fortress home.

The moral of the story about the three little pigs

The main moral of the Three Little Pigs is that hard work and diligence always wins.

While the first two little pigs were trying to build their houses and go on vacation, the third little pig was busy building his house out of bricks. In comparison with the two heroes of the fairy tale, the efforts of the third pig served him with the fact that his house turned out to be the most durable and resistant.

So the idea that you need to spend the required amount of time to complete any task is constantly inculcated in organizations, passed down by teachers and parents through many generations.

Wednesday, April 4, 2021

“Three Pigs”

S. Mikhalkov Tale “Three Piglets”

Genre: The author’s tale of animals

The main characters of the fairy tale “Three Piglets” and their characteristics

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What the Three Little Pigs teaches

This fairy tale teaches us that it is better to work well once, but do a good thing, than to quickly do something that will break down in an hour. It is better to spend money once and buy something good than to buy cheap something that you will have to throw away in a week. This tale teaches foresight and thoroughness. It teaches you to correctly assess your capabilities and needs.

Feedback on the fairy tale "The Three Little Pigs"

I liked this fairy tale, because its main idea is very reasonable. Not only the pig's house should be a fortress. Everything that surrounds us should be good and reliable. The piglets in the fairy tale were very different, and if Naf-Naf understood that the house should be good, then his brothers did everything at random. If the wolf had not blown them away at home, they would have frozen in the winter.

Proverb to the fairy tale "Three Little Pigs"

Labor feeds, but laziness spoils. Labor conquers everything. Haste does not help matters.

Summary, brief retelling of the fairy tale “Three Little Pigs”

Once upon a time there were three little pigs who had fun in the summer. But then autumn came and the most sensible of the piglets, Naf-Naf, offered to build a house, because he was shivering from the cold. Nif-Nif and Nuf-Nuf refused and were idle for a long time. But when ice began to cover the puddles, they nevertheless took up construction. Nif-Nif, without hesitation, made a house out of straw, Nuf-Nif decided to build a warmer house, and made it out of branches and twigs. The piglets went to see what kind of house Naf-Naf was building and saw that he was kneading bricks and putting up an oak door. Naf-Naf believed that the piglet's house should be his fortress and protect him from the wolf. Nif-Nif and Nuf-Nuf laughed and began to sing songs about the wolf, and so loudly that the wolf was awakened. The ox decided to eat the piglets and opened its mouth. The piglets ran away. Nif-Nif was the first to run to his house, but the wolf blew three times and his straw house shattered. Nif-Nif ran to Nuf-Nuf's house. The pigs are locked in the house. First, the wolf put on a sheep's skin and pretended to be a sheep. But the pigs recognized the wolf when they opened the door and slammed it shut. Then the wolf blew three times and the house of branches collapsed. The piglets rushed to Naf-Naf and he let them in and closed the door. The wolf decided that now he would eat all the pigs and began to blow, then shake the door, then scratch the walls, but the stone house stood dead. Then the wolf climbed onto the roof, deciding to get inside through the pipe. Naf-Naf heard the wolf and opened the lid on the pot of boiling water. The wolf got into it, but as soon as it jumped up, it flew back through the pipe. And the piglets began to live together.

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Walt Disney and the Great Depression

In 1993, Walt Disney released an eight-minute animated film called The Three Little Pigs. According to the Disney Encyclopedia of Animated Short Films, short works inspired many Americans during the Great Depression.

The people of America used the Big Bad Wolf as a symbol of the struggle in life. Just as the 3rd little pig overcame adversity through hard work, many Americans believed that their diligence would eventually lead them out of the Great Depression.

WALT DISNEY’S Three Little Pigs

Were there three little pigs?

The other day a good old memory flashed through my mind: in our area there used to be a working canteen called "The Three Little Pigs" - that was in my youth. Well, even earlier, in childhood, of course, there was a cartoon.

My darling clung to nostalgia and, in general, I reviewed the cartoon and saw there it was no longer a children's fairy tale with a happy ending, but a mission that seemed impossible to me.

First, Nuf-Nuf, the first piglet, built a hay house for himself. The wolf came, blew, spat, and he scattered. The same is with the house of Nif-Nif, who built it from brushwood. The third piglet, Naf-Naf, turned out to be the wisest and built his house out of bricks.

And then it dawned on me that this is a painfully familiar parable of Christ about a house built on a stone. It is mentioned at the very end of the Sermon on the Mount - this is, as it were, the end of it.

Christ then said to his disciples:

whoever listens to My words and does them, I will liken him to a wise man, for he builds his house on the rock. When it starts to rain and a strong wind rises, the house will stand, because. based on stone. (Matt. 7:24-27)

And everyone who hears My words but does not do it, I will liken to a foolish man, for he builds his house on the sand. And when it starts to rain and strong winds rise, the house will collapse and fall.

What struck me the most was the difference in just ONE word, i.e. someone listens to the Word of God and performs it, but someone listens and does NOT perform it.

The third category, which consciously does not want to listen to the Word of God, is not even mentioned, so the “third extra” boar is here.

But what kind of house are we talking about?

It seems to me that each person weaves the lace of his life himself - whether he realizes it or not. The only scary thing is that at the same time it seems to him that it is exactly the way he lives that this is right. And he does not even realize that he is very deeply mistaken, because he does not weave lace, but a web - he builds a house, like Nuf-Nuf from what was, based on his intuition, habits, fashion or people's opinion. Moreover, most of the people just like that - in vain and live - "profuse" their entire precious life.

But in order for a house to stand, you need a foundation, a fulcrum, and not far-fetched beliefs.

However, the other half of people are no better - those who rely on ancient traditions, they say, as the ancestors lived, so I will live, although I don’t understand why, but just in case.

Hello! After all, ignorance of the law (of God) does not exempt from responsibility.

Thank God there are still people, although they are extremely few, but still. They rely not on their habits, not on traditions, but precisely on the Word of God, embodied in the Gospel. Because it is the Gospel that forms the worldview in such a way that a person in any panic situation can calmly and confidently taxi out of it - this is like an airplane pilot, whose instructions for behavior in extreme situations are brought to automaticity.

In general, whatever one may say, one should not just read the "instruction for life" - the Gospel, but know this book by heart. Although this will not be enough, because daily practice of applying skills is still required so that they are not forgotten. This, you see, is what it is - to listen to the Word of God and FOLLOW it.

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A friendlier version of the tale

young readers.

According to Raleigh Books, in the original version of the tale, the Big Gray Wolf was boiled in a cauldron and eaten by three little pigs.

To make the end of the story less horrifying, Jacobs adapted the story so that the Big Bad Wolf went down the chimney and set his tail on fire. In Disney's interpretation, the wolf falls into a cauldron of boiling liquid, but runs away in terrible pain.

The wolf, the destroyer of the flock, and the bricklayer

Mikhail Elizarov, writer:

A wise piglet builds not a house, but a fortress: "Of course, I am smarter than everyone else, I build a house of stones." Naf-Naf is not just a builder pig, he is first and foremost a bricklayer.

In world history, the term "mason" is firmly associated with the movement of freemasonry - a powerful branched organization that inherited the experience of the secret societies of the Middle Ages (masson, freemason - freemason). Formally, for public opinion, the Freemasons declared a certain humanistic loyalty to the ideas of the moral improvement of society within the framework of the religion and state where this or that Masonic lodge is located.

"No animal in the world, a cunning animal, a terrible animal, will break through this door!" “What animal is he talking about?” - Ask Nif-Nif and Nuf-Nuf. “I'm talking about the wolf,” Naf-Naf replies.

In medieval Christian symbolism, the "wolf" is the destroyer of the flock. The symbolic "wolf" was distinguished by ferocity, cunning and greed. The state machine of France became such a fatal "wolf-destroyer" for the Templars. Philip the Handsome, King of France, with the support of Pope Clement V, carried out a swift punitive operation to "dispossess" the order. In an effort to give legitimacy to this arbitrariness, Philip organized show trials of the Templars. Arrests were made in the name of the Inquisition. The Templars were charged with renouncing Jesus Christ, worshiping the idol of Baphomet (probably transformed by torture "Mohammed", since Baphomet's demonology did not know), homosexual orgies and other spiritual and carnal sins.

Grand Master Jacques de Molay died at the stake. The order was dissolved, the possessions of the Templars became the property of the king. Part of the property went to the Order of the Hospitallers. The German templars formed the Teutonic Order, the Portuguese - the Order of the Knights of Christ. The Templars were given asylum at the state level by England and Scotland. So the "masons" ended up on Albion.

So, the “wolf” is a state repressive machine that operates according to special rules, that is, according to the law. It is no accident that the wolf in the fairy tale blows on the houses of Nif-Nif, Nuf-Nuf and Naf-Naf. The wolf is bound by rules. He, for example, cannot set fire to the house or simply break it down. (In itself, “exhalation” is associated with a speech or a sentence, the destructiveness of which is based on “hurricane” slander. The same Templars were slandered by the Inquisition.) The straw and twig “temples” of the pigs turned out to be weak before the “law”, therefore they fell.

By the way, the very image of the "pig" is not so comical. Suffice it to recall that the forest pig is the future “boar”, which, as a heraldic symbol in the Middle Ages, denoted a courageous warrior who staunchly resists the enemy and is not inclined to retreat. The features of the "boar" are ferocity and courage. Suffice it to recall that the white boar's head was the breast emblem of Richard III.

Nif-Nif and Nuf-Nuf flee from their devastated "temples" under the protection of the stone walls of Freemasonry - to Naf-Naf. No matter how hard the wolf tries, the strength of his lungs is not enough to destroy the House of Masons, built of "stone". The law is powerless. The wolf is cunning and tries to get into the Masonic temple through the chimney, that is, dishonestly, bypassing the law. Prior to this, the wolf, throwing on a sheep's clothing (a wolf in sheep's clothing is a biblical allusion), tried to trick Nuf-Nuf's house into the house.

Naf-Naf unravels the cunning plan of the wolf, who is trying to secretly infiltrate the Freemasons. The defiler (state) is waiting for a cauldron of boiling water.

One of the well-known symbols of Freemasonry is also a pyramid with an eye inside - the Radiant Delta (the fairy tale about piglets constantly wins back "triangles" and "triangles": three piglets build three houses, then the three of them settle in the third house). The fireplace is a truncated pyramid. The cauldron into which the wolf fell is the all-seeing eye of the Masons.

An enemy attempting to enter the sanctuary has been detected and destroyed. Cooked and eaten. Only this is no longer a Mikhalkov fairy tale, but English, that is, Masonic folklore ...

More options for possible authors

Who wrote the fairy tale "Three Little Pigs"? English author or not? You can hear such an answer, according to which the Grimm brothers are still considered the authors of this fairy tale. But this is absolutely the wrong answer. Confirmation of this can be found in the book "Nursery Rhymes and Stories" (this is where the first printed version of this tale entered), which was published in London back in 1843. At this time, the Brothers Grimm were already well known and would hardly have allowed this work to be printed under their own name. On the other hand, it doesn’t matter who the author is, The Three Little Pigs is just a great fairy tale.

Interpretation of the fairy tale in cartoons

Nif-Nif, Nuf-Nuf and Naf-Naf were so fond of children that their story was even filmed in cartoons. The most famous options for us are, of course, Disney and from the Soyuzmultfilm studio. And here the question of who wrote the fairy tale "The Three Little Pigs" has already ceased to be important. The author of each individual film adaptation made his own adjustments, thereby slightly changing the tale, making it more interesting for children. The main thing is that, despite the fact that both versions of the fairy tale were filmed in the last century, they still remain interesting for new generations.

Necrotizing Pneumonia in Lactating Piglets - Articles

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An increase in mortality in farrowing rooms has been observed on a commercial farm and this coincides with increases in temperature and relative humidity.

Alberto Stephano

12 January 2015

Farm description

An agro farm with 1500 gestating sows on two sites located in Mexico.

Piglets are weaned from the sow when they reach 19.5 days of age.
Pigs are sold when they are 146 days old and weigh 113.7 kg (average).
Mortality in weaners and finishers is low: 0.7% and 1.1% respectively.
The number of weaners is 26.8 per sow per year.

Production results are good, but mortality in farrowing rooms is high and is even higher during the hot months (July to September) when it exceeds 12%.

The facilities are quite simple, with open buildings and a few enclosed farrowing rooms, with an evaporative air-cooling system.

The farm is not affected by major swine diseases in Mexico: porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (PRRS), Aujeszky's disease, classical swine fever, actinobacillary pleuropneumonia, mycoplasmas, etc.

Appearance of a case

In July, as temperatures and relative humidity increased, there was a significant increase in mortality in farrowing rooms, which increased from 11.7% during the previous weeks to 24.6% during the week with the highest mortality.

The main causes of death were: crushed piglets (41.1%), underfed piglets (by 23.7%), diarrhea (9.2%), piglets born with low body weight (8.0%), euthanized piglets (6.8% ), congenital underdevelopment of leg muscles (5.2%) and pneumonia (1.4%).

As can be seen, most of the causes were due to maintenance errors. In terms of symptoms, only diarrhea and pneumonia were seen.

Diarrhea worsened 7 weeks prior until more than 50% of litters less than 7 days of age were affected. Apparently, this was caused by E. coli, and was associated with an increase in temperature and relative humidity.

Picture 1. Acute local pleuropneumonia. The lungs are destroyed.

During the previous 4 weeks the number of piglets that died due to pneumonia increased. Pneumonic injuries were very severe, and the concern was that the outbreak of Actinobacillary pleuropneumonia started in the farrowing quarters. On this farm, the number of fattening pigs was significantly reduced 1.5 years ago due to actinobacillary pleuropneumonia, so there was a desire to confirm the diagnosis.

Graph 1. Total piglets born, live births and mortality in farrowing rooms

Graph 2. Percentage of mortality in farrowing rooms

Causes of mortality in farrowing rooms

Crush	41.1%
Fasting	23.7%
Diarrhea	9.2%
Poor pot life	8.0%
Sleep	6.8%
Congenital underdevelopment of leg muscles	5.2%
Pneumonia	1. 4%
Others	3.8%

Graph 3. Percentage of deaths due to diarrhea and pneumonia

Visiting farrowing rooms

Habitat:

The farrowing quarters were very warm and humid. The temperature was 32°C in closed boxes and 38.5°C in open boxes. High relative humidity was felt here (it was not measured due to the lack of the necessary device, but apparently it was more than 80%).

Clinical signs:

The females were fine, but their food intake was reduced due to the heat. They did not get up to eat, and many of them became physically worse (more in open boxes).
Diarrhea was seen in a few litters (20%) during the first days of life.
In 4 to 7 day old piglets, we saw that some of them were weak, a little pale, depressed, with fever and some shortness of breath.
The number of piglets crushed remained high, especially during the first 3 days of life.
On the 9th - 10th day of life, we saw several thin and underfed piglets.

Care:

There were deficiencies in the care of piglets:

Allowed 24 hours (or less) to clean and disinfect boxes.
Partitions and floors of the boxes were damp.
Sanitation was poor in some boxes.
Piglets moved from most litters. There were too many moves.
More than 30% of litters used a stepmother sow.
Piglets were weaned from the sow when they were 10 days old and the sows were used as stepmother sows.
Care for these piglets was insufficient: they were not accustomed to eat and drink, and they lacked a source of heat

Procedures:

At birth, all piglets received 20% strength citric acid orally to treat diarrhea and were injected with vitamins.
At 4 days of age, piglets received oral toltrazuril.
The drug was administered to pigs in an inverted position (belly up).
Not enough time was given to the pig to swallow.

Necropsy:

Fibrin on the visceral and parietal pleura.
Trachea with hemorrhage, necrosis and profuse mucopurulent exudate.
Presence of white lumps in the airways.
Lung with lobular necrotic lesions covered with fibrin. Abscesses in some pigs.

Picture 2. Mucopurulent exudate in the trachea with white lumps of an unknown substance.
Image 3. Muco-purulent exudate with hemorrhages in the trachea and larynx.
Image 4. Pleuropneumonia with abundant fibrin and abscess in the parenchyma. Image 5. Pleuropneumonia with copious fibrin and fluid in the chest.

Diagnosis

Necrotizing tracheitis and pneumonia due to aspiration were diagnosed.

Problems with pneumonia in piglets are not typical, so finding pleuropneumonia seen in fattening pigs and caused by the causative agent Actinobacillus pleuropneumonia is unlikely. Actinobacillary pleuropneumonia usually affects pigs between 14 and 18 weeks of age. In piglets, pneumonia is rare and is generally not observed during the first week of their life.

Image 6. Necrotic pneumonia with profuse bronchial exudate and small abscesses.

Bronchial aspiration is common on farms where oral treatment of piglets takes place, especially if the piglets are not placed in the correct position and not given enough time to swallow. In this case, it was confirmed that the care of piglets with diarrhea was inappropriate, and that drugs and milk went into the trachea and lungs.

Image 7. Necrotizing pneumonia with abscesses.

Treatment with toltrazuril is not recommended, Isosporosis is not found and diarrhea due to coccidia appears after 7 days of life. In addition, the product is highly acidic and causes necrosis when entering the trachea and lungs.

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