Jack is the son to an impoverished widow who takes a risk and luckily finds his fortune. Jack decides to swap their best cow for some strange-looking beans from a strange-looking man. The beans, the man promises, will grow overnight and up to the sky. When Jack returns home with the beans and plants them, his mother is outraged, and he goes to sleep feeling like a failure. When he wakes up, he discovers a great big beanstalk has grown up to the sky. Jack decides to climb it and stumbles upon a giant ogre's home. Jack steals three things from this ogre, who eats Englishmen such as himself. He steals a bag of gold, a goose who lays golden eggs and a golden harp. The ogre sees Jack stealing the harp and chases after him, but Jack cuts down the beanstalk and kills the ogre trying to climb down it. From all the gold, Jack and his mother become extremely rich, he marries a princess, and they all live happily ever after.
Possibly one of the most iconic of fairy tales, which also goes by the name, "Goldilocks and the Three Bears" with some plot changes, "The Story of the Three Bears" cautions that breaking into someone's home is not only wrong, but is sure to render a serious consequence. In the original telling, there are three bears who live in a home together. They each make porridge and decide to go for a walk. The portions in the house match the size of the bears: small, medium and large. A little old woman sees the bears' empty house and decides to break in. She tries each bowl of porridge until eating the small bear's portion, which is her favorite. Then she sits in their chairs until deciding the small bear's chair is the best. Finally, the little old woman tries each bear's bed until she falls asleep in the little bear's bed. Then, the bears come home to find that someone had been in their home -- eating their porridge, sitting in their chairs and sleeping in their beds. They angrily find the woman still asleep. She awakens in fright upon seeing the bears. In the end, nobody knows what happens to her because she is never seen again.
Three little pigs are sent off to find their fortune and each build a house: one made of straw, one made of sticks and the other made of bricks. A wolf comes along and blows down the straw house and eats the little pig up and proceeds to do the same to the stick house and its pig owner. When the wolf finds the house made of bricks, he also tries to blow it down but to no avail. It's too strong. So the wolf tries to trick the pig into coming out of his home, but the pig is too smart and taunts him. The wolf is insulted and decides to climb down the pig's chimney to eat him up. The pig boils a pot of water at the bottom, which the wolf falls into. The pig quickly traps him in there with a lid, cooks him and eats him for supper instead.
Henny-Penny is a hen on a farm. When something suddenly hits her head she proclaims the sky is falling and must warn the king. On her way to the castle, Henny-Penny encounters a rooster, duck and goose and tells them her story, which they all believe blindly and decide to follow her. A fox comes by and asks where they're going. The group tells him, and the fox claims he knows the right way to the castle. Being gullible, the birds follow the fox into a dark hole in the ground (the fox's cave, unbeknown to the birds) with Henny-Penny at the rear. When she hears her friends getting killed by the fox, she turns around and runs all the way home -- never getting the chance to tell the king "the sky was a-falling."