This story not only closely shows links to the known Little Red Riding Hood, but also to the story of The Three Little Pigs. In doing so, the stones caused him to fall in and drown. When the wolf awoke, he rushed to the river to take a drink. She cut his stomach open with some scissors to rescue her children before encouraging them to find stones which were sewn into his stomach in their place. Their mother returned and found the wolf, then devised a plan. The kids were eventually fooled and opened the door to the wolf, who instantly devoured them all whole and fell asleep in a nearby meadow. On his arrival he employs several tricks to mask his identity, such as consuming chalk for a softer voice and sprinkling flour on his paws to make them appear white. In this thread, the mother goat leaves the house and encourages her children to be on constant guard for the wolf. The story has also been retold as Number 5: The Wolf and the Seven Kids by the Grimm Brothers. Instead of the wolf dressing as a human, she instead impersonates a nanny goat in order to eat all of the young goat children. If we follow the thread of The Wolf and the Kids first, we find that a recent study by James Tehrani at the University of Durham has uncovered that this is the original tale through a comparative computer algorithm. This makes sense, as tigers were far more common in China than wolves would have been, so it’s a sign of the tale being adopted into a culture. For example, the Chinese tale of Grandaunt Tigress follows the story of a young girl being chased by a tigress in order to be eaten. While all of the 58 discovered versions of the tale are all fairly similar, the antagonist can range from a tigress to an ogre it’s not just tales of wolves considered to be a variant. Both threads are visible in the anthologies by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, dating to the early 19th century. The latter translates to “Little Red Riding Hood”. The other thread is the European tale that culminated in Le Petit Chaperon Rouge by Charles Perrault. One of these is The Wolf and the Kids, which originated in the 1st century CE in the Middle East.
While these stories are all fairly similar, they belong to two threads. The story of Red Riding Hood is known throughout the world, with the origins debated as being either Europe in the 11th or 17th century, the Middle East, or even China. Little Red Riding Hood by Jessie Willcox Smith, 1911.
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