Which J.K. Rowling story collection contains The Tale of the Three Brothers?

The Tale of the Three Brothers appears in J.K. Rowling's story collection The Tales of Beedle the Bard.

The collection is presented as a group of wizarding fairy tales. In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Hermione reads The Tale of the Three Brothers, which explains the origins of the three objects known together as the Deathly Hallows.

The collection was published in 2007, the same year as the final Harry Potter novel. Each story is followed by commentary attributed to Albus Dumbledore, giving the fictional book a scholarly and historical frame.

The tale is sometimes mistaken for a standalone novel or for a chapter title in Deathly Hallows. It is actually one story within a separate companion collection, and its plot is especially important because it introduces the Elder Wand, Resurrection Stone, and Invisibility Cloak.