Little red riding hood

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Fairy tales are full of creepy and terrible things, and the original "Little Red Riding Hood" is no exception. Cinderella’s stepsisters cut off parts of their feet before the ball. In the Hans Christian Andersen version of The Little Mermaid, the mermaid commits suicide. And even popular collections of fairy tales like the one from the Brothers Grimm include stories like “The Girl Without Hands” and “The Death of the Little Hen.”

Little Red Riding Hood’s full story is pretty dark. Unlike the modern version, where a naive and trusting girl who can't tell the difference between a wolf and her grandmother escapes in the end, in most older versions, Red is eaten alive. And that’s only the beginning of the horrible things that happen in "Little Red Riding Hood."

The versions circulating in 17th-century France, when Charles Perrault first wrote down the story in his collection called Mother Goose Tales, featured a cannibalistic granddaughter and a pedophile wolf who tells Red to strip down before she climbs in his bed. No wonder the fairy tale was changed – it’s for children, after

Little Red Riding Hood Has Been Told For Centuries, But It Didn't Used To Have A Happy Ending

Long before it was first written down, "Little Red Riding Hood" was a folktale told for centuries. Anthropologist Jamie Tehrani argues that the fairy tale was not invented by the French writer Charles Perrault, the author of Mother Goose Tales and the first person who wrote it down. Historian Robert Darnton explains that most of Perrault’s stories came from the oral tradition – most likely through his son’s nurse, where he borrowed the name Mother Goose.

But the story of Little Red Riding Hood had much deeper roots, and it went through a number of versions. Even after Perrault’s French version, the story spread to Germany and England, carried by French refugees of the Wars of Religion and later conflicts, until the Brothers Grimm wrote it down again in the 19th century. In fact, the story of a girl wearing red who wanders off and runs into a wolf dates back to at least the 11th century, when a Belgium poet recorded the tale.

The long history of the story includes a number of changes that transform it from a disturbing tale of cannibalism and pedophilia to the much friendlier version children hear today, which has a happy ending.

In Some Versions Of The Story, There Is No Little Red Riding Hood

One of the defining features of Little Red Riding Hood is her red hood – it appears in nearly every image of the story produced in the last 200 years. But in some versions of the story, the little girl didn’t wear a red hood at all. One folk version told in 17th- and 18th-century France described the main character as simply a “little girl.” In other versions, the hood is made from gold. The red hood doesn't appear until the 17th century.

Where did the famous hood come from? It was most likely invented by the original Mother Goose, Charles Perrault. In his version, first published in 1697, the girl’s mother “had a little red riding hood made for her.” Perrault explains, “it suited the girl so extremely well that everybody called her Little Red Riding Hood.” And after that, the red hood stuck around.

Once The Red Hood Appeared, People Claimed It Symbolized Coming Of Age... Or Sin

The red hood made its first appearance in Perrault’s version, but it was such a popular detail that it came to define the story. In fact, much has been made of the red color. Psychoanalyst Erich Fromm claimed that the red hood was a symbol of menstruation, turning the tale into a morality lesson for young girls who might “stray from the path,” putting their honor at risk. The wolf, in Fromm’s version, becomes a seducer of young girls.

Red was a color associated with sin when Perrault first wrote the fairy tale in the 1690s. And many folklorists point out that the red color was often a symbol that a girl had come of age, linking it to menstruation. When the wolf tricks Little Red Riding Hood and eats her up, the message is clear: beware of predators who want to take advantage of young girls. And there’s a twisted part of the earliest French versions that really drives the point home.

In The Original Version, The Wolf Makes Red Strip And Climb In Bed With Him

The original version of "Little Red Riding" gets creepy very quickly. Once the little girl is at her grandmother’s house, where the wolf has disguised himself as her grandmother, the wolf asks Red to strip off her clothes. In the story, the wolf says, “Undress and get into bed with me.” When Red asks what do do with her apron, the wolf says, “Throw it on the fire; you won’t need it any more.”

After Red tosses her apron in the fire, the wolf also makes her take off her bodice, skirt, petticoat, and stockings. With each item of clothing, the wolf says “Throw it on the fire; you won’t need it any more.” Once she’s taken off her clothes, Red climbs into bed with the wolf. That’s when she notices that something is not right with her “grandmother.”

“Oh grandmother! How hairy you are!” Red declares. In today's version of the fairy tale, Little Red Riding Hood definitely doesn’t get *****.

The Wolf Feeds The Grandmother To Little Red Riding Hood

Even before Red climbs into bed with the wolf, the older versions of the story are gruesome. When the wolf sneaks into the grandmother’s house, he kills and butchers the elderly woman. He pours her blood into a bottle and slices up her flesh on a platter.

As if that wasn’t bloody enough, when Little Red Riding Hood shows up, the story quickly turns into a tale of familial cannibalism. When Red hands over the bread and milk to the wolf, he says, “Have something yourself, my dear. There is meat and wine in the pantry.” He points to the blood and flesh of her grandmother. Red eats the snack, and a little cat whispers, “Slut! To eat the flesh and drink the blood of your grandmother!”

There are some strange parallels here with the religious tradition of taking the Eucharist – the body and blood of Christ. However, for obvious reasons, this cannibalism was omitted from later versions of the story.

Little Red Riding Hood Escapes In One Version Using Some Poop Humor

In most versions of Little Red Riding Hood, the girl never figures out the wolf’s disguise – which is kind of surprising, since most people would recognize a wolf wearing a nightdress. Perhaps Red didn’t have the best eyesight.

But in one version, Red manages to escape from the wolf’s trap. Once she has climbed into bed with the wolf, she notices that he isn’t exactly grandmotherly. Red makes up a lie to leave the bed: she says that she has to poop and doesn’t want to do it in grandmother’s bed. The wolf lets Red leave for the woods, but he ties a piece of string to her so that she can’t escape. In this version, the girl tricks the wolf by slipping the string over a branch and running away. That’s some clever thinking!

Even in the Mother Goose Version, The Grandmother Gets Eaten

The Mother Goose version of "Little Red Riding Hood" is less gruesome than many of the original folktales. For example, Red does not eat her grandmother, and there is not a long description of her taking off her clothes and throwing them into the fire, though it does say Red "took off her clothes" before climbing into bed with the wolf.

But the Mother Goose version still maintained some of the darker elements of the folk tale. For example, when the wolf snuck into the grandmother’s house, “he immediately fell upon the good woman and ate her up in a moment, for it had been more than three days since he had eaten.”

After all, if the moral of the story is to watch out for predators, the grandmother was just as guilty as Red, since she was also tricked by the wolf.

In Mother Goose, "Little Red Riding Hood" Does Not Have A Happy Ending

In addition to the grandmother’s death, the Mother Goose version of "Little Red Riding Hood" also doesn’t end well for Red. After the girl is tricked into climbing into bed with the wolf, the two have their famous dialogue.

"Grandmother, what big arms you have!"

"All the better to hug you with, my dear."

"Grandmother, what big ears you have!"

"All the better to hear with, my child."

"Grandmother, what big eyes you have!"

"All the better to see with, my child.”

And finally, Red says, “Grandmother, what big teeth you have!”

At this point, the wolf says, "All the better to eat you up with,” at which point he jumps on Red and eats her. This is the end of the story in the Mother Goose collection – there is no friendly woodsman or rescue for Little Red Riding Hood.

The Moral Lesson Is Pretty Heavy In The Mother Goose Version, And It's All About Virginity

At the end of the Mother Goose version of "Little Red Riding Hood," Charles Perrault includes a moral, just in case children don’t pick up the message in the story. He writes, “Children, especially attractive, well-bred young ladies, should never talk to strangers, for if they should do so, they may well provide dinner for a wolf.”

And just in case his wolf analogy goes over the children's heads, Perrault adds “I say ‘wolf,’ but there are various kinds of wolves. There are also those who are charming, quiet, polite, unassuming, complacent, and sweet, who pursue young women at home and in the streets.” Reading between the lines, Perrault warns girls that wolves might appear like gentle grandmothers, even if their intentions are bad. Perrault concludes by saying, “Unfortunately, it is these gentle wolves who are the most dangerous ones of all.”

The moral lesson for young girls is very clear: guard yourself (and your virginity) against predators who want to take advantage.

In The Brothers Grimm Version, Red Fills The Wolf's Wide-Open Innards With RocksIn

One of the more familiar versions of the "Little Red Riding Hood" story comes from the Brothers Grimm in the 19th century. But even their ending, which saves Red and her grandmother, has a strange twist. The Brothers Grimm introduced the huntsman who saves the day right after Little Red Riding Hood (or Little Red Cap, as she was known in this version) is eaten by the wolf.

The huntsman finds the wolf sleeping after his big meal and cuts open his belly with a pair of scissors. The girl and her grandmother leap out, with Red crying, “Oh, I was so frightened! It was so dark inside the wolf’s body!” Then Red takes over, filling the wolf’s body with large stones. The wolf apparently sleeps through this whole process, but when he wakes up and tries to run away, the stones are so heavy that he falls down dead.

It’s not quite stripping or cannibalism, but it’s still a dark twist on the fairy tale.

There’s Even A Sequel In The Brothers Grimm Where Red Gets Her Revenge

The Brothers Grimm also wrote a sequel to "Little Red Riding Hood" where Red teams up with her grandmother to kill another wolf. As in the first fairy tale, Red encounters a wolf in the woods, but this time, she ignores him. When the wolf tries to break into the grandmother’s house, the grandmother doesn’t let him in. Both have learned their lesson from the first time, when they were eaten by the wolf.

In the sequel, Red and her grandmother lure the wolf into the chimney with the smell of sausages. In the hearth, they place a large tub filled with the water from cooking the sausages. The wolf falls in and drowns, and Red rejoices.

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