Little Red Riding Hood

Little Red Riding Hood
A "Little Red Riding Hood" illustration by J. W. Smith
Folk tale
NameLittle Red Riding Hood
Also known asLittle Red
Aarne–Thompson grouping333
MythologyEuropean
RegionFrance,[1] Germany[2]
Origin Date1697,[3] 1812[4]
RelatedPeter and the Wolf

Little Red Riding Hood is a European fairy tale about a young girl and a sly wolf.[5] Its origins can be traced back to several pre-17th-century European folk tales. The two best known versions were written by Charles Perrault[6] and the Brothers Grimm.

The story has varied considerably in different versions over the centuries, translations, and as the subject of numerous modern adaptations. 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.[7]

  1. ^ Iona and Peter Opie, The Classic Fairy Tales. p. 93. ISBN 0-19-211559-6
  2. ^ https://www.science.org/content/article/evolution-little-red-riding-hood
  3. ^ Iona and Peter Opie, The Classic Fairy Tales. p. 93. ISBN 0-19-211559-6
  4. ^ "There Are 58 Versions of Little Red Riding Hood, Some 1,000 Years Older Than the Brothers Grimm's".
  5. ^ Berlioz, Jacques (2005). "Il faut sauver Le petit chaperon rouge". Les Collections de l'Histoires (36): 63.
  6. ^ BottikRuth (2008). "Before Contes du temps passe (1697): Charles Perrault's Griselidis, Souhaits and Peau". The Romantic Review. 99 (3): 175–189.
  7. ^ Uther, Hans-Jörg (2004). The Types of International Folktales: Animal tales, tales of magic, religious tales, and realistic tales, with an introduction. FF Communications. p. 224-226.