J.K. Rowling’s The Tales of Beedle the Bard includes five stories.
The collection contains “The Wizard and the Hopping Pot,” “The Fountain of Fair Fortune,” “The Warlock’s Hairy Heart,” “Babbitty Rabbitty and Her Cackling Stump,” and “The Tale of the Three Brothers.” Each tale is presented as a wizarding folk story, followed by commentary attributed to Albus Dumbledore.
The final story is especially important in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows because it describes the origins of the three Deathly Hallows: the Elder Wand, the Resurrection Stone, and the Cloak of Invisibility. Hermione reads the collection after inheriting it from Dumbledore.
Rowling published the book in 2008. In the fictional world, Beedle’s tales are compared with Muggle fairy tales, but they often carry specifically magical moral lessons.