‘Goldilocks and the Three Bears’

Children's story about a little girl who finds a cottage in the woods with no one at home. She makes use of the chairs, dishes, and beds, all in triplicate, but flees when the returning owners prove to be three bears. In the first printed version by Robert Southey (1837), the trespasser was an old woman, but successive retellings transformed her into a golden-haired child.