LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD.
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we talk anything and everything and pretty much run with it. Today's
blog is on the common Folk-tale; Little Red Riding Hood.
Once
upon a time, there was a little girl who lived near a village near a
forest. Whenever she went out the little girl wore a red riding
cloak, so everyone in the village called her little Red Riding Hood.
One
morning, Little Red Riding Hood asked her mother if she could go to
visit her grandmother as it had been awhile since they'd seen each
other.
“That's
a good idea,” her mother said. So they packed a nice basket for
Little Red Riding Hood to take to her grandmother.
When
the basket was ready, the little girl put on her red hood and kissed
her mother goodbye.
“Remember,
go straight to grandma's house,” her mother cautioned “Don't
dawdle along the way and please don't talk to strangers! The woods
are dangerous.”
“Don't
worry, mummy,” said little red riding hood “I'll be careful.”
But
when Little Red Riding Hood noticed some lovely flowers in the woods
she forgot her promise to her mother. She picked a few, watched the
butterflies flit about for a while, listened to the frogs croaking
and then picked a few more.
Little
Red Riding Hood was enjoying the summer day so much, she didn't
notice a dark shadow approaching out of the forest behind her...
suddenly,
the wolf appeared beside her.
“What
are you doping little girl?” the wolf asked in a voice as friendly
as he could muster.
“I'm
on my saw to see my Grandma who lives in the woods by the brook,”
Little Red Riding Hood replied,
then
she realised how late she was and quickly excused herself, rushing
down the path to her grandma's house.
The
wolf in the meantime took a shortcut...
the
wolf, a little out of breath from running, arrived at Grandma's house
and knocked lightly at the door.
“Oh,
thank goodness dear! Come in, Come in! I was worried sick that
something had happened to you in the forest,” said grandma thinking
that the knock was her granddaughter.
The
wolf let himself in. Poor Granny did not have time to say another
word, before the wolf gobbled her up!
The
wolf let out a satisfied burp, and then poked through Granny's
wardrobe to find a nightgown that he liked. He added a frilly
sleeping cap, and for good measure, dabbed some of Granny's perfume
behind his pointy ears.
A
few minutes later, Red Riding Hood Knocked on the door. The wolf
jumped into bed and pulled the covers over his nose. “Who is it?”
he called in a cackly voice.
“It's
me, Little Red Riding Hood.”
“Oh
how lovely! Do come in, my dear.” croaked the wolf.
When
Little Red Riding Hood entered the little cottage, she could scarcely
recognise her grandmother.
“Grandmother!
Your voice sounds so odd. Is something the matter?” she asked.
“Oh,
I just have a touch of a cold,” squeaked the wolf adding a cough at
the end to prove the point.
“But
Grandmother! What big ears you have,” said Little Red Riding Hood
as she edged closer to the bed.
“The
better to hear you my dear,” replied the wolf
“But
Grandmother! What big eyes you have,” Said Little Red Riding Hood.
“The
Better to see you with, my dear,” replied the Wolf.
“But
Grandmother! What big teeth you have” said Little Red Riding Hood
her voice quivering slightly.
“The
Better to eat you with, my dear,” roared the Wolf and he leapt out
of the bed and began to chase the little girl.
Almost
too late, Little Red Riding Hood realised that the person in the bed
was not her grandmother but a hungry wolf.
She
ran across the room and through the door, shouting, “Help! Wolf!”
as loudly as she could.
A
woodsman who was chopping logs nearby heard her cry and ran towards
the cottage as fast as he could.
He
grabbed the wolf and made him spit out the poor Grandmother who was a
bit frazzled by the whole experience, but still in one piece, “Oh
grandma, I was so scared!” sobbed Little Red Riding Hood, “I'll
never speak to strangers or dawdle in the forest again.”
“There,
there child. You've learned an important lesson. Thank goodness you
shouted loud enough for this kind woodsman to hear you!”
The
woodman knocked out the wolf and carried him deep into the forest
where he wouldn't bother people any longer.
Little
Red Riding Hood and her Grandmother had a nice lunch and a long chat.
- DLTK-TEACH website
The
earliest versions of Little red riding hood comes from several likely
pre-17th century versions from various European countries.
Some are significantly different from the currently known
Grimms-inspired version. It was told by French peasants in the 10th
century and recorded by cathedral schoolmaster Egbert of Liege.
These
versions of the tale differ from the currently known version in
several ways. The antagonist was not always a wolf but occasionally
an ogre, Vampire or Bzou (werewolf) making the tales relevant to the
werewolf trials of the time. Some versions the wolf leaves the
grandmothers corpse out for the little girl to cannibalize, in others
the wolf eats the girl after she gets into bed with him and another
states the girl escapes after tricking the wolf with string and a lie
about not wanting to soil herself. In one particular story as she's
running away. Little Red Riding Hood is aided by several laundresses
who use a sheet pulled taunt over a river. As the wolf crosses its
loosened and the wolf is swallowed into the river sheet and all never
to be seen again.
The
Charles Perrault Version
French
author Charles Perrault wrote the earliest known printed version
called Le Petit Chaperon Rouge and may have had its origins in 17th
century French folklore. It was included in the collections of past
with morals and tales of mother goose in 1697. As the title implies
this version is both more sinister and overtly more moralized than
the later ones. The red hood which has often been given some form of
symbolic significance was a detail introduced by Perrault.
The
Brothers Grimm Version
The
Bothers Grimm, the famous German writers were retold two separate
versions of Little red riding hood, first by Jeanette Hassenpflug and
second by Marie Hassenpflug. The brothers turned the stories into one
main tale and a sequel. The story was known as Rotkappchen and was
included in the first edition of their collection Children's and
household tales (1812).
The
earlier parts agree with the Perrault's version but the ending was
changed so that both grandmother and granddaughter were saved by the
huntsman, the secondary tale included the grandmother and
granddaughter locking the wolf out and later drowning him in meat
water after tricking him into coming down the chimney. The Bothers
Grimm later on revised the story for later editions but it reached
the final cut and the better well known 1857 edition. It is noted by
many scholars that the story is notably tamer than the older stories
which contained very much darker themes.
Many
Folklorists and cultural anthropologists such as P. Saintyves and
Edward Burnett Tylor, saw “Little red riding hood” in the terms
of solar myths and other natural cycles such as the bright sun being
swallowed by night and little red being cut out of the wolfs belly
signifying the Dawn. With that interpretation comes a connection to
the Norse Mythology tale of Skoll, the wolf who will swallow the
personified sun at Ragnarok or Fenrir. Other Interpretations of
Little Red Riding Hood includes Rebirth, sexual acts/exploits and a
puberty rite.
Little
Red Riding Hood has appeared in several Movies: Hoodwinked in 2005,
Little Red Riding hood in 2006 and Red Riding Hood in 2011, TV shows
such as Teen Wolf, Grimm and Once Upon a Time and even a play
Sondheim's Into the woods. There has been several literary and
musical adaptions of the story as well as inclusions in video games
too.
I
heard Little Red Riding Hood as a kid like most others and I always
saw it as both a cautionary tale as don't speak to strangers and a
transnational tale showing that everyone goes through at some point
in their lives. I highly recommend telling this tale to kids of any
age and I give the story a 8.5/10.
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