![]() The wolf awakens and tries to flee, but the stones cause him to collapse and die (Sanitized versions of the story have the grandmother shut in the closet instead of eaten, and some have Little Red Riding Hood saved by the Huntsman as the wolf advances on her rather than after she is eaten where the woodcutter kills the wolf with his axe). They then 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 Huntsman (in the Brothers Grimm and traditional German versions, but in the French version, a Woodcutter) comes to the rescue and with his axe 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"), "Goodness, what big eyes you have!" ("The better to see you with"), "What big ears you have!" ("The better to hear 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 eats her up too. When the girl arrives, she notices that her grandmother looks very strange. He swallows the grandmother whole (in some stories, he locks her in the closet) and waits for the girl, disguised as the grandma. ![]() In the meantime he goes to the grandmother's house and gains entry by pretending to be the girl. He suggests that the girl pick some flowers which she does. He approaches Little Red Riding Hood and she naïvely 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, she had the order from her mother 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 the Grimms' and Perrault's versions of the tale, she is named after the red hooded cape/cloak that she wears. ![]() The story revolves around a girl called Little Red Riding Hood. ![]()
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