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"The Three Little Men in the Wood" or "The Three Little Gnomes in the Forest" (German: Die drei Männlein im Walde) is a German fairy tale collected in 1812 by the Brothers Grimm in Grimm's Fairy Tales (KHM 13). Andrew Lang included it in The Red Fairy Book (1890) as "The Three Dwarfs," and a version of the tale appears in A Book of Dwarfs (1964) by Ruth Manning-Sanders.

It is Aarne-Thompson type 403B ("The Black and the White Bride"), with an episode of type 480 ("The Kind and the Unkind Girls").