![]() ![]() She hides in the closet or cupboard instead. In some modern versions of the story, especially versions for very young children, the grandmother does not die. He then frees the heroine from the animal's stomach. In their version, a huntsman slays the child-devouring wolf. It is a little different from the way that the Brothers Grimm tell it. The story has been changed many times in the centuries following its publication. In Perrault's story the girl is eaten and there is no happy ending. He wanted to show that a beautiful young woman was in danger of having men with bad morals try to trick her into wrong behaviour. Perrault wanted to make a strong point about wise and foolish behaviour. It is uncertain if Perrault knew a folk tale from the south of France about a girl who cleverly escapes a werewolf occupying her grandmother's bed. Perrault's version of the tale is the original printed version, but it is likely based on an older oral tradition. The story is called The Little Red Cap ( Le Petit Chaperon Rouge). The name of the book, in English, is Tales and Stories of the Past with Morals: Tales of Mother Goose. The story was first written and published in a book from 1697 by the French writer Charles Perrault. The Brothers Grimm and other later authors added male heroes who save Red Riding Hood. She uses her own intelligence and her own courage. In these early versions of the story, Red Riding Hood escapes on her own. But the girl puts the rope around something else, and escapes. The wolf ties her with a long string so that she cannot run away without him knowing. She says that she needs to use the toilet first. The wolf tells the girl to throw all her clothes in the fire, and get into bed. It is part of the body of her grandmother. In one version of the story, the wolf gives the girl some food to eat. In the old versions of the story the wolf is sometimes a terrible monster or a werewolf. There are also versions of the story from the Middle East and Africa. There is also a story from China which is like this, called The Grandmother Tiger. In France, the story has probably been told for at least 700 years. One of Aesop's Fables is a version of Little Red Riding Hood, according to Tehrani. ![]() Jamie Tehrani said some versions of Little Red Riding Hood are 3000 years old. The story of Little Red Riding Hood seems to have been told for centuries in different countries, under different names.Īnthropologist Dr. Then, stones are put in the wolf's body to kill the wolf. He saves the grandmother and the girl who are still alive in the wolf's stomach. In the Grimms' version, a woodcutter ( lumberjack) comes and cuts open the wolf's body. ![]() The wolf leaps upon the child and eats the girl. "The better to eat you with!" the wolf responds. The dialogue continues, with the child remarking upon other body parts until she notes the wolf's big teeth. "The better to see you with!" the wolf responds. In the Perrault version, the girl is surprised to see what her "grandmother" looks like without her clothes. When the girl arrives at her grandmother's house, she gets into bed with the wolf. He puts on the grandmother's night-cap and gets into her bed. ![]() While she is picking flowers, the wolf goes to grandmother's house and eats her. The wolf tells the girl to pick some flowers for her grandmother. The girl answers him, because he seems friendly. The wolf politely asks the girl where she is going. A wolf sees the girl walking through the woods and makes a plan to eat her. The mother tells her she must not stop on the way. Her mother sends her to take food to her sick grandmother. In this German picture-book, Red Riding Hood has poured a glass of beer for her Grandmother.Ī girl has been given red cap (or cloak and hood) to wear. The title of the story is properly translated as "Little Red Cap" even though it is usually known in English as "Little Red Riding Hood". But their book became famous as a book of children's stories anyway. They did not originally mean for their book to be read as children's stories they were writing down German folklore for scholars to read. The Brothers Grimm listened to many traditional stories from old people and wrote them into a book. The most famous version of the story is the one written by the Brothers Grimm in the 19th century. The best-known version (the way the story is told) is Rotkäppchen by the Brothers Grimm and dates from the 19th century (1800s). It was first written down in the late 1600s, by Charles Perrault. The story comes from a folktale which means that it was a spoken story for a long time before it was a written story. " Little Red Riding Hood" (or " Little Red Cap") is a French fairy tale for young children about a young girl and a wolf. A picture by French illustrator Gustave Doré ![]()
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