The earliest version of Little Red Riding Hood that Dr.
Jamie Tehrani, a cultural anthropologist, presented findings supporting the fact that several different versions of Little Red Riding Hood shared a common source dating back more than 2,600 years ago. As it turns out, the French version of Little Red Riding Hood told by Charles Perrault in 1697 is nowhere near old enough to be considered the “original”. This is more of the happily ever after fairy tale ending that we’re used to in our present day culture.īut let’s go back to the concept of “original”. But the Grimms did change the tale, giving it a happy ending, as a hunter cuts Little Red Cap and her grandmother out of the wolf’s stomach. It came from the French, told to them by Marie Hassenpflug, who was of French Huguenot descent.
But their version of Little Red Cap was not German. They wanted to preserve German oral folk tales. Then came the Brothers Grimm, publishing their collection of Children’s and Household Tales in 1812. Gustave Doré’s woodcut, “She was astonished to see how her grandmother looked” The “fairy tale ending” for her in this fairy tale is not so nice and serves as a lesson to other children to never talk to strangers, and warns young, attractive ladies to beware “gentle wolves who are the most dangerous ones of all.” One date puts this tale at least as early as 1697.
The Little Red Riding Hood I tend to think of as the “original” is Charles Perrault’s version, called Le Petit Chaperon Rouge. Okay, first off, let’s get some perspective. So, just how far back does Little Red Riding Hood go? Just where did she come from in the first place? Little Red Riding Hood walking through a dark forest by Annya Kai on īut even the “original” Little Red Riding Hood I’m thinking of turns out not to be the “original” original. Too bad her “original” fairy tale ending is not so happily ever after. Then I started thinking about some of my favorite fairy tales and their fairy tale endings. As stated above, it has become synonomous with “happily ever after”.
The other day, I was pondering the term “fairy tale ending”. Once upon a time, there was a fairy tale ending and everyone lived happily ever after. Little Red Riding Hood and a white wolf by Katrina Winter from
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