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Posted 2-23-18

“Little Red Riding Hood is a story named after the titular character. In Grimms’ and Perrault’s versions of the tale, she is named after her magical red hooded cape or cloak that she wears.

Little Red Riding Hood walks through the woods to deliver food to her sickly grandmother. In the Grimms' version, her mother had ordered her to stay strictly on the path.
The Big Bad Wolf wants to eat the girl and the food in the basket, secretly stalking her throughout the forest.
He approaches Little Red Riding Hood, and she naively tells him where she is going. The Wolf suggests that the girl pick some flowers, while in the meantime, he goes to the grandmother's house and gains entry by pretending to be the girl.
The Big Bad Wolf swallows the grandmother whole (or in some stories, locks her in the closet) and waits for the girl, disguised as the grandma.
When the girl arrives, she notices that her grandmother looks very strange. Little Red then says, "What a deep voice you have!" ("The better to greet you with", responds the wolf), "Goodness, what big eyes you have!" ("The better to see you with", responds the wolf), "And what big hands you have!" ("The better to hug/grab you with", responds the wolf), and lastly, "What a big mouth you have" ("The better to eat you with!", responds the wolf), at which point the wolf jumps out of bed and eats her up too.
The Big Bad Wolf falls asleep, and in Charles Perrault's version of the story, the tale ends here.

Within the French version, there is a woodcutter, but a hunter in the Brothers Grimm and traditional German versions, which comes in to the rescue and with his axe cuts open the sleeping wolf.
Little Red Riding Hood and her grandmother emerge unharmed, and they then fill the wolf's body with heavy stones. The wolf awakens and tries to flee, but the stones cause him to collapse and die.
Sanitized versions of the story have the grandmother locked in the closet instead of eaten and some have Little Red Riding Hood saved by the lumberjack as the wolf advances on her rather than after she is eaten where the woodcutter kills the wolf with his ax.”

Description
Posted 2-23-18

“Little Red Riding Hood is a story named after the titular character. In Grimms’ and Perrault’s versions of the tale, she is named after her magical red hooded cape or cloak that she wears.

Little Red Riding Hood walks through the woods to deliver food to her sickly grandmother. In the Grimms' version, her mother had ordered her to stay strictly on the path.
The Big Bad Wolf wants to eat the girl and the food in the basket, secretly stalking her throughout the forest.
He approaches Little Red Riding Hood, and she naively tells him where she is going. The Wolf suggests that the girl pick some flowers, while in the meantime, he goes to the grandmother's house and gains entry by pretending to be the girl.
The Big Bad Wolf swallows the grandmother whole (or in some stories, locks her in the closet) and waits for the girl, disguised as the grandma.
When the girl arrives, she notices that her grandmother looks very strange. Little Red then says, "What a deep voice you have!" ("The better to greet you with", responds the wolf), "Goodness, what big eyes you have!" ("The better to see you with", responds the wolf), "And what big hands you have!" ("The better to hug/grab you with", responds the wolf), and lastly, "What a big mouth you have" ("The better to eat you with!", responds the wolf), at which point the wolf jumps out of bed and eats her up too.
The Big Bad Wolf falls asleep, and in Charles Perrault's version of the story, the tale ends here.

Within the French version, there is a woodcutter, but a hunter in the Brothers Grimm and traditional German versions, which comes in to the rescue and with his axe cuts open the sleeping wolf.
Little Red Riding Hood and her grandmother emerge unharmed, and they then fill the wolf's body with heavy stones. The wolf awakens and tries to flee, but the stones cause him to collapse and die.
Sanitized versions of the story have the grandmother locked in the closet instead of eaten and some have Little Red Riding Hood saved by the lumberjack as the wolf advances on her rather than after she is eaten where the woodcutter kills the wolf with his ax.”