Goldilocks is the antagonist of the fairy tale story "Goldilocks and the Three Bears".

In the story, a family of three bears live together in a house in the woods. Each of these the bears has their own porridge bowl, chair, and bed. One day they take a walk in the woods while their porridge cools.

Goldilocks, a pretty young girl, approaches the bears' house. She looks through a window, peeps through the keyhole, and lifts the latch. Assured that no one is home, she walks in. The girl eats the Baby Bear's porridge, then settles into his chair and breaks it. Prowling about, she finds the bears' beds and falls asleep in Baby Bear's bed. The climax of the tale is reached when the bears return. Baby Bear finds the girl in his bed and cries, "Somebody has been lying in my bed, – and here she is!"

Goldilocks's fate varies in the many retellings: in some versions, she runs into the forest, in some she is almost eaten by the bears but her mother rescues her, in some she vows to be a good child, and in some she returns home.

All published appearances of Goldilocks from before January 1, )-(95)}} are public domain in the US.

Some notable appearances are listed below:

*'Treasury of Pleasure Books for Young Children' (1850) as '''Silver-hair'''
*'Harlequin and the Three Bears, or, '''Little Silver Hair''' and the Fairies' by John Baldwin Buckstone (1853)
*'Favourite Fairy Tales' (1861) as '''Silverhair''', '''little Silver-hair''' and '''Little Silverhair'''
*'A Apple Pie and Other Nursery Tales' (1870) as '''Little Silverlocks''', '''Silver-Locks''' and '''Silverlocks'''
*'The Three Bears' by Walter Crane (1873) as '''Silverlocks'''
*'''Golden Hair''' and Her Knight of the Beanstalk in the Enchanted Forest by N. G. Clarke (1887)
*'The Three Bears' Published by McLoughlin Bros. (1888) as '''Goldenhair'''
*'The Old, Old Fairy Tales' (1889) as '''Golden Hair'''
*'Stepping Stones to Literature' by Sarah Louise Arnold and Charles B. Gilbert (1897) as '''Golden Locks'''
*'The Story of the Three Bears' (1900) as '''Goldenlocks'''
*'The Santa Claus story book' as '''Goldilocks''' (1900)
*'The Practical Teacher' page 466 (Mar. 1902) as '''Goldilocks'''
*'Denslow’s Three Bears' by W. W. Denslow (1903) as '''Golden Hair'''
*'The Three Bears' by Mara L. Pratt‐Chadwick (1905) as '''Silver Locks'''
*'The Story Reader for the Second Year at School' by J. A. Bowen (1907)
*'Cinderella Down to Date' by H. S. Huntington (14 Nov. 1909) as '''Goldilocks'''
*'How to tell stories to children' by Sara Cone Byrant (1910) as '''Goldilocks'''
*'Mother Fairy Tales' by Laura Dent Crane (1911) as '''Goldilocks'''
*'Baby Bear’s Party' by Frances Margaret Fox (7 Nov. 1912)
*'The Three Bears of Porcupine Ridge' by Jean M. Thompson (1913)
*'How Mother Bear Saved Her Baby' by Frances Margaret Fox (18 Jan. 1913)
*'When Mother Bear Made Pickles' by Frances Margaret Fox (12 Apr. 1913)
*'How Little Bear Went to a Picnic' by Frances Margaret Fox (July 1913)
*'Little Bear’s Adventure' by Frances M. Fox (3 July 1913)
*'Little Bear’s Bee‐Tree' by Frances Margaret Fox (16 Oct. 1913)
*'Grandfather Grizzly' by Frances Margaret Fox (30 July 1914)
*'Three Bears in the Enchanted Land' by Frances Margaret Fox (12 Nov. 1914)
*'What happened then stories' by Ruth O. Dyer (1918) as '''Little Silver Hair'''
*'The Three Bears/Les trois ours' by Caroline Wasson Thomason (1921)
*'A Party in Mother Goose Land' by Effa E. Preston (1922)
*'Guilty Looks Enter Tree Beers' by Howard L. Chace (1956)

*'The Story of The Three Bears' by Eleanor Mure (1831)
*'The Story of the Three Bears' by Robert Southey (1837)
*'English Fairy Tales' by Joseph Jacobs (1890)
*'Firelight stories' by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey (1907)
*The Progressive Road to Reading by Georgine Burchill, William L. Ettinger, and Edgar Dubs Shimer (1909)

* '''Little Silver Hair''' and the three bears : a pastoral drama (1880)
* The Three Bears, by Florence McClurg Everson (1929)

*'''Goldie Locks''' and the Three Bears (original silent version, 1922)
*The Three Bears (1935)
*The Three Bears (1939)

*Children's fairy tale quartet card game (1890) as '''Golden Locks'''

*In some versions, the intruder in the bears' house is an old woman instead of a little girl.

*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Bears Wikipedia]
*[https://comicvine.gamespot.com/goldilocks/4005-38545/ ComicVine]
*[https://fairytale.fandom.com/wiki/Goldilocks_and_the_Three_Bears Fairy Tale Wiki]
*[https://fictional-characters-in-media.fandom.com/wiki/Goldilocks Fictional Characters in Media Wiki]
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