![]() ![]() He gets there before her, eats the grandmother, and disguises himself in her clothing to lure the girl into the house. Instead, the wolf engages her in conversation and learns her destination. Along the way, she encounters a wolf who wishes to eat her, but does not because there are woodcutters nearby who would defend her. The story tells of a young village girl who travels into the woods to visit her grandmother. The Brothers Grimm included the tale in their Kinder- und Hausmärchen (1812–1815 Children's and household tales known in English as Grimm's Fairy Tales). The name of the story derives from the red hood and cape that the young girl wears, a detail believed to have been original to Perrault's version. A postscript explains it as a cautionary tale, an example of what can happen when a young woman talks to a strange man. His version is much simpler than the version later popularized by the Brothers Grimm: A young woman in red encounters a wolf, tells him her destination, and then is eaten by him when he lies in wait for her farther down the path. ![]() While probably an ancient tale of the oral tradition, the earliest known written form is contained in Charles Perrault's 1697 work, Contes de ma mère l'Oye (Tales of Mother Goose, 1729). Little Red Riding Hood is a fairy tale or children's story common to many European cultures in various forms. ![]()
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