The following tales are similar to the Three Billy Goats Gruff fairy tale, AT-122E: Wait for the Bigger Goat. I have included the English language tales of this type which have been gathered by title by D. L. Ashliman in his A Guide to Folktales in the English Language. Sometimes I include tales of other classifications when I deem them relevant to the theme. The tales come from many cultures and are similar to the Three Billy Goats Gruff story in various ways. I have placed the tales in alphabetical order with bibliographic information and links to texts of the stories if a text is available on the internet.

How the Goats Came to Hessen *
Little Mangy One
The Three Billy Goats Gruff *
The Three Goats *
Three Kids, the Billy Goat, and the Wolf 

* Full text of tale is available online.

A web version of this tale is available on D. L. Ashliman's site at How the Goats Came to Hessen.

This tale is AT-122E.

An English language version is available in:

Ashliman's Source: Adalbert Kuhn, "Wie die Ziegen nach Hessen gekommen sind," Sagen Gebräuche und Märchen aus Westfalen und einigen andern, besonders den angrenzenden Gegenden Norddeutschlands (Leipzig: F. A. Brockhaus, 1859).

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A web version of this tale does not exist due to copyright restrictions.

This tale is AT-122E.

An English language version is available in:

Bushnaq, Inea, ed. and trans. Arab Folktales. New York: Pantheon Books, 1986.
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This is the version of the tale presented on the site with annotations at The Three Billy Goats Gruff.

This tale is AT-122E.

An English language version is available in:

Asbjornsen, Peter Christen and Moe, Jorgen. East o' the Sun and West o' the Moon. George Webbe Dasent, translator. New York: Dover, 1970. (This is a reprint of all the Asbjornsen and Moe stories in Popular Tales from the Norse. Edinburgh: David Douglass, 1888.)
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Clarkson, Atelia, and Cross, Gilbert, B., eds. World Folktales: A Scribner Resource Collection. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1980.

Thompson, Stith, ed. One Hundred Favorite Folktales. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1974.
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A web version of this tale is available on D. L. Ashliman's site at The Three Goats.

This tale is AT-122E.

An English language version is available in:

Ashliman's Source: Karl Haupt, "Die drei Ziegen," Sagenbuch der Lausitz, v. 2 (Leipzig: Verlag von Wilhelm Engelmann, 1863)

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A web version of this tale does not exist due to copyright restrictions.

This tale is AT-122E.

An English language version is available in:

Degh, Linda, ed. Folktales of Hungary. Judit Halasz, translator. Folktales of the World. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1965.

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