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Little Red Riding Hood" is a European fairy tale that tells the story of a young girl who encounters a sly wolf in the woods while taking food to her grandmother's house. The wolf arrives at the grandmother's house first and eats her, then waits for the girl disguised as the grandmother. When the girl arrives, she notices the wolf looks strange but is eaten by the wolf. Later versions of the story have a woodcutter rescue the girl and grandmother by cutting open the wolf's stomach with an axe.

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Little Red Riding Hood" is a European fairy tale that tells the story of a young girl who encounters a sly wolf in the woods while taking food to her grandmother's house. The wolf arrives at the grandmother's house first and eats her, then waits for the girl disguised as the grandmother. When the girl arrives, she notices the wolf looks strange but is eaten by the wolf. Later versions of the story have a woodcutter rescue the girl and grandmother by cutting open the wolf's stomach with an axe.

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"Little Red Riding Hood" is a 

European fairy tale about a young girl and a sly wolf.[1] Its origins can


be traced back to several pre-17th century European folk tales. The two best known versions were
written by Charles Perrault[2] and the Brothers Grimm.
The story has been changed considerably in various retellings and subjected to numerous modern
adaptations and readings. Other names for the story are: "Little Red Cap" or simply "Red Riding
Hood". It is number 333 in the Aarne–Thompson classification system for folktales

The story revolves around a girl called Little Red Riding Hood. In Perrault's versions of the tale, she
is named after her red hooded cape/cloak that she wears. The girl walks through the woods to
deliver food to her sickly grandmother (wine and cake depending on the translation). In the Grimms'
version, her mother had ordered her to stay strictly on the path.
A stalking wolf wants to eat the girl and the food in the basket. He asks her where she is going. She
tells him. He suggests that she pick some flowers as a present for her grandmother, which she does.
In the meantime, he goes to the grandmother's house and gains entry by pretending to be Riding
Hood. He swallows the grandmother whole (in some stories, he locks her in the closet) and waits for
the girl, disguised as the grandmother.

Gustave Doré's engraving of the scene: "She was astonished to see how her grandmother looked."

When the girl arrives, she notices that her grandmother looks very strange. She 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 embrace 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 the bed and eats her, too. Then
he falls asleep. In Charles Perrault's version of the story (the first version to be published), the tale
ends here

In later and better-known versions, the story continues. A woodcutter in the French version, or
a hunter in the Brothers Grimm and traditional German versions, comes to the rescue with an axe,
and cuts open the sleeping wolf. Little Red Riding Hood and her grandmother emerge shaken, but
unharmed. Then they fill the wolf's body with heavy stones. The wolf awakens and attempts to flee,
but the stones cause him to collapse and die. In the Grimms' version, the wolf leaves the house and
tries to drink out of a well, but the stones in his stomach cause him to fall in and drown (similarly to
the story of "The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids").
Sanitized versions of the story have the grandmother locked in the closet instead of being eaten and
some have Little Red Riding Hood saved by the lumberjack as the wolf advances on her rather than
after she is eaten, where the woodcutter kills the wolf with his axe. [4]

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