Little Red Riding Hood

By Ribbit Rob &  Maya Starling

　

 

The story Little Red Riding Hood revolves around a girl named after the red hooded cape/cloak she wears... With parts like Red going to grandma’s and being asked to do things like take off her clothes and burn them, which has long been cut out of the fairy tale... Many people argue that the red cloak symbolizes Red as becoming a woman and losing her virginity... The wolf is a character that supposedly translates as a sexual predator Maybe Little Red Riding Hood is caught and fucked by wolf in the forest, but is highly edited...

　

The story as most of us know it…

　

On her way to visit her sick grandmother, she is approached by the wolf, naively tells him where she is going and then get distracted by picking flowers as the wolf suggested. It gives him time to go to the grandmother’s house, deceive her to get in, and eat her whole...

　

These are the famous lines that probably everyone can associate with the Red Riding Hood when she finally reaches her grandmother, but is met by the wolf in disguise “What a deep voice you have,” (“The better to greet you with”), “Goodness, what big eyes you have,” (“The better to see you with”) “And what big hands you have!” (“The better to hug/grab you with”), and lastly, “What a big mouth you have,” (“The better to eat you with!”) at which point the wolf jumps out of bed, and swallows her up too... Then he falls fast asleep...

　

A lumberjack/hunter comes to the rescue and with his axe cuts open the wolf that had fallen asleep... Little Red Riding Hood and her grandmother come out unharmed... As revenge, they fill the wolf’s body with heavy stones, thus when he awakens and tries to flee, the stones cause him to collapse and die...

　

These early variations of the tale differ from the currently known version in several ways. The antagonist is not always a wolf, but sometimes an ogre or a ‘bzou’ (werewolf)... The wolf usually leaves the grandmother’s blood and meat for the girl to eat, who then unwittingly cannibalizes her own grandmother. Furthermore, the wolf was also known to ask her to remove her clothing and toss it into the fire... In some versions, the wolf eats the girl after she gets into bed with him, and the story ends there... Maybe he had sex with her before killing and dismembering her who knows...

　

Charles Perrault’s version (first published version of the tale)The story had as its subject an “attractive, well-bred young lady”, a village girl of the country being deceived into giving a wolf she encountered the information he needed to find her grandmother’s and eat the old woman while at the same time avoiding being noticed by woodcutters... Then he proceeded to lay a trap for the Red Riding Hood who ends up being asked to climb into the bed before being eaten by the wolf, where the story ends... The wolf emerges the victor of the encounter and there is no happy ending... Maybe the Wolf got a massage get it "HAPPY ENDINGS"

　

The tale can be told in terms of Little Red Riding Hood’s sexual attractiveness. The song “How Could Red Riding Hood (Have Been So Very Good)?” by A.P. Randolph in 1925 was the first song known to be banned from radio because of its sexual suggestiveness.

　

 

The 1966 hit song “Lil’ Red Riding Hood” by Sam the Sham & the Pharaohs takes the Wolf’s point of view, implying that he wants love rather than blood.

　

The story may also serve as a metaphor for a sexual awakening, as in Angela Carter’s story “The Company of Wolves”, published in her collection The Bloody Chamber (1979). (Carter’s story was adapted into a film by Neil Jordan in 1984.) In the story, the wolf is in fact a werewolf, and comes to newly-menstruating Red Riding Hood in the forest in the form of a charming hunter. He turns into a wolf and eats her grandmother, and is about to devour her as well, when she is equally seductive and ends up lying with the wolf man, her sexual awakening...