Once upon a time there was a goat with three kids. The little one was very calm and hardworking, always obedient with his mother. The middle aged one and the big kid were very unruly and all the time  were looking for trouble.

One day, the mother goat told  her sons:

‘Dear boys, I have to go in the woods to bring something to eat. Please, keep the door locked after I’ll leave and don’t open it until you hear my voice. When I am back, you’ll hear this little song:

"Open the door to your mother

‘cause mother brings to you

fresh grass in the lips

Some milk and a ball of salt

On my back…..

Do you understand?"

And all the three kids answered together:

-"Yes, mama!

- So let me kiss you goodbye all of you and may God protect you from bad things! "

So, the goat mother went in the woods, the little kid locked the door and all started playing in the house. Meanwhile, the bad wolf,having heard the conversation between the mother goat and the kids about the song, started singing the same song to the kids, hoping this way he would trick them and they would open the doortohim.

The wolf started singing, and the big kid as soon as  he heard the song jumped down to open the door, thinking that his mother was there!

But the little one cried "Don’t open the door! It’s not mother, for sure, she has a lovely voice, this one is rough and harsh.

When the wolf heard such things, he went to the blacksmith to ask him to sharp his voice! He was back quickly and started singing again the same song.

The big kid was very sure that now it was his mama.

-"Who else could be?.I go to open it ‘cause she must be tired and full of goodies."

‘-My brother! I feel it’s not mama. Please, don’t open" says the little one!

But the big kid, didn’t listen and opened the door! The middle aged hid under a blanket and the little one in the fireplace, scared to death.

The big kid didn’t open the door well, and in a blink of an eye the wolf ate it greedily. He started searching the rest of the house, he knewfor sure that other kids must be in the house .

-‘Well, well…It seems to me that I’ve heard many voices. I must rest myself a little before leaving .

Then he laid on the blanket and felt something under the blanket….It was the poor middle aged kid!

The hungry wolf ate it too ,got the walls of the room dirty  with blood and put the kids’  heads on the window ,like if they are looking outside .

When the wolf left, the little kid went out the fireplace ,blocked the door and started crying inconsolably over his brothers. Meanwhile, the she goat was coming  back in a hurry from the woods and she saw her childrens' heads at the window!

She was very happy thinking that everything was fine and the little ones were waiting for her .

But when she was close to the house she felt sad and her heart was screaming in pain, but without any particular reason.

She started to sing the song….

The little kid jumped to open the door and fell in his mother arms, crying desperately and started to tell the sad story to his mother.

After she recovered from her pain, the goat was ready to get her revenge on the wolf. She started cooking all kind of goodies, made a hole in the garden, covered it with woods, embers and brambles and made a table and a chair in wax.

When everything was ready, she went to the forest to look for the wolf  to invite him to the mourning feast. The wolf was getting some rest in the shadow of an old oak.

‘Good day to you, she goat! What brings you here?

‘Well, a tragedy happened when I was in the forest and somebody ate all my kids and now I came to invite you to eat something for their memory and remembrance."

"Glad about your invitation! "says the wolf.

So, they went to the house, the she goat was crying in pain and the wolf was pretending that he was very shocked by the news. The wolf tried all the time to blame the bear for what had happened. When they were at the house, the she goat invited the wolf to seat on the chair in wax,  and started  bringing him the goodies.

- "Good appetite", says the goat!

- "Thank you", politely answered  the wolf and ,being very greedy, he was eating very fast all the tasteful food.

While he was eating, suddenly the waxchair melted and the wolf fell in the burning hole, screaming of pain!

"Get me out of here, screamed the wolf, I am burning alive!"

‘Burn there ,wolf, like my heart burned of pain in my chest after my babies."

"Don’t let me die! Have mercy!"

‘I feel no sorry for killers like you! My little one won’t be scared anymore! "And they threw some rocks at the wolf ,to be sure he wouldn't come again!!!

The news about the  wolf's death soon travelled through the forest and were heard by the she-goat's relatives .

All the goat’s sisters congratulate her and felt relieved and pleased about the well deserved end of the bad wolf.