Then they fill the wolf's body with heavy stones. Little Red Riding Hood and her grandmother emerge unharmed. However, in later versions, the story continues generally as follows:Ī woodcutter in the French version, but a hunter in the Brothers Grimm and traditional German versions, comes to the rescue and with an axe, and cuts open the sleeping wolf.
In Charles Perrault's version of the story (the first version to be published), the tale ends here. 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. When the girl arrives, she notices that her grandmother looks very strange. Gustave Doré's engraving of the scene: "She was astonished to see how her grandmother looked" He swallows the grandmother wholly (in some stories, he locks her in the closet) and waits for the girl, disguised as the grandma.įile:GustaveDore She was astonished to see how her grandmother looked.jpg In the meantime, he goes to the grandmother's house and gains entry by pretending to be the girl. He suggests the girl to pick some flowers, which she does. He approaches Little Red Riding Hood, who naively tells him where she is going. He secretly stalks her behind trees, bushes, shrubs, and patches of little and tall grass. In the Grimms' version, her mother had ordered her to stay strictly on the path.Ī Big Bad Wolf wants to eat the girl and the food in the basket. The girl walks through the woods to deliver food to her sickly grandmother (wine and cake depending on the translation). In Grimms' and Perrault's versions of the tale, she is named after her magical red hooded cape/ cloak that she wears. The story revolves around a girl called Little Red Riding Hood. Little Red Riding Hood, illustrated in a 1927 story anthology Tale File:Little Red Riding Hood - Project Gutenberg etext 19993.jpg 3.5 Erotic, romantic, or rape connotations.
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