The cat referring to Red as a slut is because way back then it was a term meaning careless or messy, so her eating the grandmother without a concern is actually very fitting for the cat to call her a slut.
@calebaddai622 Thank you! It's a zombie (undead) frog. But a Peruvian dart frog specifically, they're the only monogamous species of frog, and they have toxic saliva. I like frogs.
There is an even older version of the tale "Little Red Hat." It is called "the Story of Grandmother" and it is by Paul Delarue. In this older version the wolf is a "bzou" or werewolf. It plays out the same as the version you said with a few differences. When she eats the meat and drinks the "wine" there is a reference to her being in "communion" with her granny. A reference to the Christian practice of eating bread and drinking wine as a stand-in for Christ's flesh and blood. Also, the cat says, "A slut is she who eats the flesh and drinks the blood of her grandmother." "Slut" used to refer to someone of loose morals who was low class, rather than just someone who was sexually promiscuous or unfaithful. Also, the rock or pine road conversation with the ogre happens in this tale too. Being a "bzou" this antagonist is less wolf-like and more man-like than in many versions. He may be more like an ogre.
As "slutty" versions go, there was a variation about her that made round when I was in the Navy... Red was closer to the 16 to 19 territory... and "Hot as a firecracker"... AND of course the wolf was the obvious "fiend" allegory... ONLY when the wolf set upon her, he ripped all her clothes off, until revealing her nastiness beneath... like green tints to the hair and slime and pus oozing... even slugs and stuff crawling around her... and as he recoiled into the corner whimpering, Red stood triumphant and growled, "OH NO, you don't... NOW you gotta follow the storyline and EAT ME!!!" ...a tad gross and more than a little tongue-in-cheek for a "kid's story"... but maybe it wasn't 100% intended for children below a certain age... haha ;o)
When my kids were little, I made the wolf a werewolf, to explain how it could impersonate Grandma...and slowly become wolflike as Little Red cuddles with her.
It would actually make a lot of sense if the story was to warn young girls from getting taken advantage of. These things unfortunately had always happened (probably even more commonly in the past than nowadays). And "the wolf" metaphor would probably be the best way to portray it to children, especially when sex was a highly taboo topic.
Even when it isn't specifically a cautionary tale about sexual abuse, I think it's commonly used to remind children to be wary of "helpful" strangers - the woodcutter is usually depicted as someone Red knows who offers her useful advice which she ignores, while the Wolf takes on the appearance of a stranger and asks her probing questions which she naively answers. I once tried to ask a child on a school playground for directions, and was annoyed when he walked away without a word, then noticed that *_ALL_* of the kids were walking towards the school like chicks running under mother hen, and understood they were complying with instructions and I was a "stranger" who had walked by asking a "seemingly harmless question". Oops.
Yeah, from what I was told by my mother who was really into history, mythology and anthropology during her younger years (and studied all 3 in college) wolf was pretty, much shorthand for r*pist in many places back in the day, and during the witch hunts period some horrible criminals were accused of being actual werewolves. Medieval and earlier people didn't like wolves.
A seventeenth-century French phrase was to have “seen the wolf” which was slang for a girl losing her innocence or virginity. I think the French version of riding hood is the most adult version with the girl being presented as a young attractive woman rather than a child. The wolf's hunger can be interrupted as desire, which is why wolf leads her to stripping and laying with him. In another further variation, the wolf uses the grandmother's blood and flesh as wine and dinner to seduce the woman before asking her to lay with him. The ending is the woman being none the wiser to the end, thinking it's her grandmother even after she slips under the covers, and then is devoured by the wolf.
"Little girls, this seems to say Never stop upon your way Never trust a stranger friend No-one knows how it will end As you're pretty, so be wise Wolves may lurk in every guise Now as then, 'tis simple truth Sweetest tongue has sharpest tooth."
@@victoriasimms4161 When I finally heard the whole song, I was kind of reassured that by the end the "wolf" was promising to behave politely to show his intentions weren't harmful. I told my wife I thought it was a good thing that the song wasn't as antisocial as it had seemed at its beginning.
I think my favourite version has to be the one that spells out that it is an allegory for sexual predators. It's a warning that many young red hoods, no matter what time period, should pay heed, and the nature of the story makes it easy to keep in mind.
This has always been one of my favorite fairytales and currently making my own adaptation of the story set in the 1920’s. I really enjoyed the Golden Leaf story.
Yeah, that part always weirded me out even as a child. One would certainly feel being cut open unless they were on some strong anaesthetic. Tho I guess it doesn't really matter for the story. xD
If I were reading my kids that story, I would definitely rewrite it on the fly, something I learned from my late wife, who for instance had told the children she had reared before she met me that Mama Bear's porridge was "too salty. You may hear some people say it was too cold, but I think you can tell what's wrong with that idea, since Baby Bear's porridge was just right." Sure enough, her kids, even at the bedtime story age, knew good and well that a larger bowl would cool off slower than a smaller one. For my kids, I'd have added in a comment about Our Heroine knowing "a magic chant that would cause you to feel no pain for a night and a day" or something like that.
You know what story you should really check out if you want to get freaked out? 'The Goat with Three Kids' written by Ion Creangă. It's a Romanian story, from the late 19th century, which has a plot similar to 'The Wolf and the Seven Young Goats' by the Grimm brothers, only much more.... disturbing. It has a lot of gruesome details which I'll leave out (don't want to give any spoilers). It's much more horrifying than the Grimm farytale and it's overall just messed up. I really recommend it (and who knows, maybe you'll decide to make a video about it, but only if you want to😊).
I'm pretty sure she did The Goat With 3 Kids. Was it the one where the wolf dresses up like a goat until the kids let it in? And one goat hides in the clock
@@Olivia-lo7mi No, that's not the one. That is Grimm's fairytale, 'The Wolf and Seven Little Goats'. There, there are seven goats, not three, and in the end they all survive. In this one that I'm talking about, 'The Goat with Three Kids', there are only three little goats, and the first two are eaten by the wolf and don't survive, they are dead period. Thr youngest one hides up the chimney, not inside the clock, and the manner in which the wolf dies is different here (the goat burns him alive then stones him to death as opposed to filling his stomach with rocks after freeing the kids, then sewing back shut). There are also many othrr gruesome details here (after eating the two kids and failing to find the third one, the wolf, in an attempt to mock the goat even more and cause her even more pain, he smears the walls of the house with her kids' blood. And that's nkt even the worst that he does. Also, in this version, the wolf is not just any wolf, but the godfather of the kids and an in law of the goat, which makes this even more disturbing in my opinion).
A another thing I like about Golden Hood is how unlike the other stories it gives a somewhat good explanation on why gold didn’t freak out when she saw the talking wolf because gold is a witches granddaughter this isn’t probably isn’t the first time she has saw a talking animal or something weird like this which explains why she’s treating this as normal
16:34 definitely the grandma witch one. It just makes sense. Grandma as a witch who collects and sells herbs does gave a legitimate reason to live away from other people in the woods where the herbs she collects can be found.
Imagine if granny was a wolf like creature, and the big bad himself is just a guy in a costume. It’s then revealed that red is also one of these creatures, however she hasn’t matured yet and still looks like a human.
That would actually be an interesting spin on it. Would certainly like to see some kind of adaptation (book, movie or game) that uses it. Tho probably RPG maker-style game would be the simplest to make.
A few years ago I listened to a radio podcast by two professional folklorists where they said these same things that originally Little Red Riding Hood ended with the wolf eating them all and no one came to save them. The purpose of the ending was to startle the listeners with the loud roar that comes when the wolf jumps at Red Riding Hood, whom he has called to his side. According to those folklorists, the ending where Little Red Riding Hood is freed by a hunter, tailor, carpenter or woodcutter is a much later addition to the story and is missing from the oldest versions. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to find these versions they talked about in the radio podcast.
Although I must have been very young, like four or five, I still remember quite vividly my horror when my mother first read to me the wolf's words, *_"All the better to EAT you with, my dear!"_* in a ferocious growl. I took immense pleasure in having the privilege of reading the same words to my first child for the first time and terrifying him in the same way. I also got to read them to the three children my wife and I adopted later, even though they were older, because (having been born in a non-Western country) they had never heard the story before, although they weren't quite as bowled-over by my performance as the wolf.
Little golden hood is the best version both little golden hood, and the grandmother live and I just love the grandmother in this version she’s this cool old, sassy witch who saves her granddaughter from certain death and I also love how the hood in this story has a actual purpose. It’s pretty much saves little golden Hood from getting eaten by the wolf by burning his mouth.
I'm also kind of a fan of the modern complete deconstructing versions where they do things like COMBINE Red Riding Hood and the wolf into one being--a werewolf!--and/or make the granny a badass old lady with a shotgun. Not at all the original intent(s), but still fun to play with, and you still get violence and bloodshed, just....dealt by other characters. Heheh. (also werewolf are awesome in general, so there's that.)
@@zero69kage Ah, well. Now I'm thinking about what kind of Witchcraft my own grandmother might have learned, given her own family's background in Oklahoma, and Missouri before that - she might have inherited classic European craft from her motherline, plus having done an apprenticeship with a pratitioner of the craft of one or more of the displaced Native tribes. With all of the suffering those nations went through on their way to the "Indian Territory", and the suffering she and my grandfather endured as members of the legendary "Okie" displacement of the 1930s, she might have acquired, and been sorely tempted to use, some very bleak and very black magicks indeed, only restrained by the extraordinary moral uprightness she possessed IRL.
This continued addition to the story has confirmed that Ruby Red from "Once Upon a Time" might be connected to that version of the tale but the one flaw with that is the fact that she was a werewolf by blood just like she was in "Red Riding Hood; Wolf Hunter" which does not line up at all with "Once Upon a Time" either. But of course neither story was a Disney Publishing brand anyway.
The Golden Hood one was my favorite because nobody got eaten. Getting eaten (especially alive) is my worst fear. I think the Golden Hood one turned out the best for everyone involved (except the wolf, obvs).
Here's a different version for you're consideration. Little Red Ridding Hood walks into Grandma's bedroom and the Wolf is in the bed pretending to be Grandma. Red starts out "Grandma what big ears you have..." "All the better to hear you with..." Red then says "Grandma what big eyes you have..." "All the better to see you with..." But before Red asks another question she stops, puts her hands on her hips and gives the Wolf a knowing look. "You're the Wolf aren't you, my friends warned me about you're tricks." Suddenly Red lifts up the bed covers and sees what the Wolf really is hiding. Red shook her head disapprovingly. "Goldlocks is right, it's not that big..."
This reminds me of a scene in Buffy the Vampire Slayer wherein Xander wolfishly dressed asks a red-hooded Buffy, "What's in the basket, little girl?" "Weapons," Buffy succinctly replies.
I like this tale, thanks for explaining the different versions. I've heard of all of these. I'm surprised you didn't mention Beatrix Potter's The Tale of Jemima Puddle Duck (some people classify it as a version of the story and Beatrix Potter's version of Red Riding Hood ends like Perrault's version too.). There's two versions of the tale I've heard: One from the soundtrack of The Path (a videogame based on versions of Little Red Riding Hood which I'm sure everyone in the comments and you have heard of) which is the same as the French tale of The Grandmother (path of needles or path of pins and all) but after she goes out to "relieve herself" (another way of saying "do it outside."), and the bzou tying the "sturdy thread" about her ankle, she cuts the thread with sewing scissors and ties it to a plum tree. The bzou calls her twice but there's no reply; so he leaps from bed, follows the thread, and finds Red gone. He chases after Red and either she 1) makes it safely home and shuts the door as the wolf arrives (I think you forgot to mention that in the version you told) or 2) In the The Path soundtrack and in a book I've read Red runs until she reaches a river; she calls some laundresses to help her cross it. The laundresses spread a sheet over the water, and Red safely crosses over the river. The bzou tries to do the same, but when he's halfway across the laundresses let go of the sheet. This makes him fall into the water and drown. The other version is from Italy called La Finta Nonna or The False Grandmother by Itala Calvino (who drew from Antonio De Nino's Fiable). There's no red hood mentioned, but the story is implied as a version of Red Riding Hood. It goes like this: A woman had to sift flour, so she sends her daughter to her grandmother's in order to go and borrow the sifter. The girl packs her snack and sets off. She comes to a river, and asks it to let her pass. The river agrees to do so in exchange for her ring-shaped cakes, because it loved them and enjoyed twirling them in its whirlpools. The girl gives the river what it asked for, and it lowers its waters to let her through. Soon, the girl comes to a gate and asks to be let through; the gate lets her go through after she gives it the bread with oil (the gate likes bread with oil and it helps oil its rusty hinges). Finally, the girl reaches her grandmother's house, but the door is shut tight. "Grandmother, Grandmother come let me in." "I'm in bed sick. Come through the window." "I can't make it." "Come through the cat door." "I can't squeeze through." "Well, wait a minute." With that, the grandmother lowers a rope, and pulls the girl up through the window. There the girl finds herself in the darkened house. Little does she know that it's not her grandmother in the bed, but an ogress who'd gobbled up her grandmother from head to toe, except for the teeth (left to stew in a small stew pan) and the ears (left to fry in a frying pan). The girl asks for the sifter but the "grandmother" says, "It's late. I'll give it to you tomorrow. Come to bed." But the girl is hungry, so she's offered "beans" from the pot. The girl stirred them around saying they're too hard. Next, she's offered "fritters" from the frying pan. The girl poked them with the fork saying they're not crisp. "Well, come to bed," says the "grandmother." "You can eat tomorrow." The girl gets into bed, and feels "Grandmother's" hands, chest and hips. As she does so, this leads to a few questions that other Red Riding Hoods ask ("Why are your hands hairy?" "From wearing too many rings on my fingers." "Why is your chest so hairy?" "From wearing too many necklaces about my neck." "Why are your hips so hairy?" "I wore my corset too tight.") Then the girl felt her "grandmother's" tail, and thinks, "Wait a second, hairy or not, Grandmother doesn't have a tail." This made her realize that her "grandmother" was really an ogress! (And not the friendly kickass Princess Fiona kind. DUN DUN DUUUUUN!) So, like some Red Riding Hoods, she pretends to need the bathroom before going to sleep. The ogress allows this: "You may do it in the barn below. I'll let you down through the trapdoor and then draw you back up." So, like before, the ogress ties a rope about the girl, and lowers her down into the barn. No sooner is she down there, than the girl unties it and brings a nanny goat over. Then she starts tying the rope about the goat so it could take her place. "Are you finished?" asked the ogress. "Just a moment," answers the girl. Soon, she finishes tying up the nanny goat. "Yes, I am finished. Pull me back up." The ogress pulls and the girl starts yelling, "HAIRY OGRESS HAIRY OGRESS!" Then she throws open the barn door and skedaddles. The ogress pulls, but instead of the girl coming back up, it was the nanny goat! Angrily, the ogress jumps out of bed, and starts after the girl. Seeing the child had reached the rake gate, the ogress yells at it to not let the girl pass, but the rake gate lets the girl through because of her giving it the bread with oil. The same thing happens with the river ("Don't let the girl pass river!" "Of course I'll let her pass, she gave me her ring-shaped cakes."). The ogress tries to get through and chase the girl, but the river didn't lower its waters. And so, the ogress was swept away in the current, leaving the girl to make faces at her.
You know you should do The Hunchback of Notre Dame next because in my opinion that is literally the darkest and saddest story that Disney chose to adapt and make it less so.
By the way: In German Grimm's fairy tales don't end with "Happy ever after" but rather with something akin to "and if they haven't died by now, they are still alive today." Pretty uplifting, right?
"Legends are lessons they ring with truth. "Disney's Brave Lessens we can almost all agree are boring. Fairy tales were originally a way to make sure a lesson was heard. We all could use lessons like this. Metaphorical lessons are also super fun imho
There is also a version in Jin-Ro, in which Little Red was locked in her monther's basement and put in metal clothing. Only when she wore out her metal clothing was she allowed to go visit grandma.
I guess none of us felt sorry for the wolf in this fairy tale when we were kids. Also, let me state right away that I still don't feel sorry for the wolf. It is absurd to pity bad people, since the wicked should not go unpunished. If we thought this was real life, they would immediately arrest a mother trying to kill her stepdaughter or a woman trying to cook two small children. So, of course, if a wolf eats a human, it is not possible to punish him in real life, but in fairy tales, wolves can think like humans.
In some reiterations of this tale Grandma is actually a Witch who is out at market and does come back to save her granddaughter by either obliterating the big bad worlf or cursing him
The last story about the wolf being filled up with lyme reminds me of the Wawel dragon story where a shoemaker fills up a sheep full of gunpowder & feeds it to a dragon. The gunpowder causes so much thirst when the dragon eats it that it drinks from the Wisła river (or Vistula as you Anglophones say it) & literally pops like a balloon
There's a version of this where red recognizes right away that the wolf is not her grandmother and pulls a gun out of her basket and shoots the wolf dead.
My first video was about Little Red Riding Hood! Let me tell you, when I got to the part where little red is giving the wolf all of her grannie's info, I was howling😂
The True History of Little Golden Hood is probably my favorite version of the story! But it's so obscure that people seldom mention it when discussing the different versions of Red Riding Hood. I'm happy to finally hear about it! :3
I heard that this story represent the the sun (the girl) eaten by the sun-eater (wolf, ogre ect.). Also, Ogres have etymologic relation to the greeck orcus, the underworld punisher of the ones who broke their oaths, and illustraited in similiar way - big and hairy.
Golden one really needs to be shown more because that sounds so badass. Seriously, you know how all those modern retellings have a badass grandma well this version did it first in the 1800's. Heck, maybe have the golden red riding hood be a cousin of red through their grandmothers being being sisters.
I also heard about a story where Red is actually an undead child brought back to live. But because, you know, necromancy, sin, dead does not belong in the land of living, etc, she was send away to aimlessly wonder looking for her grandma (who died a long time ago and wasn't reanimated) to deliver vide and bread. Eventually she was eated by a wolf who for some reasons is described as a scavanger cleansing the evil and restoring everyone to their natural order, or something like that.
Why does so many of these stories have Little Red Riding Hood getting cozy with her grandmother without her clothes on? Was that believe to a cure all?
Golden hood was badass, frankly sounds like a modern twist on it. There's a version where the wolf gets his head cut off while he sleeps, and they have to climb out of his throat. Something about it feels much more representative of the kind of trauma the reality behind the metaphor would bring. The most disturbing one I've ever read though is a version where the wolf is a man "wearing a wolf's clothes". At the cottage everything is fine, and the visit with Grandma is uneventful. But when she goes out the front door to go home, the man, who just looked like a sleeping dog, throws a sack over her head and carries her off, the only thing left behind being the red coat she was putting on. No cannibalism. No dead granny. Just an unmetaphorical kidnapping. It ends with a line something like "she was seen never again from that day forth, but by the knowledge of the wolf man". Which... that could imply a bunch of things... Pretty messed up.
The last grim story I read at random from my grim story collection was one about a small poor villager in a town full of rich villagers. He and his wife really want a cow, that's their biggest wish. So one day the villager has a woodworker make him a wooden calf with its head to the floor (as if it's eating). Then paints the calf brown. He gives it to a herder who (believes it's real) then loses it. The villager then gaslights him and blames him for having lost his calf. demanding reparations. The apologetic cow herder gives him a free cow. Now his dream has come true, but since he and his wife can't actually take care of (feed) a cow they decide to slaughter it. They quickly eat all the meat and are left with bone and hide. The man decides to take the hide to town to sell it to min max his scam. On his way there he lodges at a millers house, whos wife takes pity on him and allows him to sleep inside sheltered from the storm outside. Gives him some dry bread and a piece of cheese. Then a priest comes in and the wife brings out all the meat, pastries and wine she has. The villager pretending to sleep finds out the millers wife is cheating on him. The miller then comes home unexpectedly saying he's hungry. The wife tells him they have nothing but stale bread and cheese (lol, the priest is hiding in a closet near the door) Using his knowledge of the wife's affair, the meat and stuff she hid, and a crow with broken wings he wrapped in his leather that he convinced the man is a "soothseeer"; he scams the miller out of an enormous amount of money, while saving the priest from his predicament. Next day he goes to town, sells his hide for a few coins and returns to his village. Where he renovates and enlarges his home making it the largest house in the village. When they ask him how he got his money, since he was the poorest of them. He tells them the store in town is paying a huge amount of money for hides. Much more than the cows are worth. He just sold one hide and the store gave him a ton of gold. So they all slaughter their cows and then find out their hides are worthless when they go to town and as result condemn him to death. He instead tricks a poor sheep herder to take his place (downing horribly in a wooden barrel) then steels all his sheep. Returns to the village who are flabbergasted and ask how he survived, more importantly where he got all those sheep. Sp he tells them he escaped from the barrel by some miracle, then swam into a cave and when he came up he found a valley full of thousands of sheep, he just took as many as he could take with him and returned to the village. Telling the villagers that there were thousands more in the valley and they could also go get themselves as many sheep as they wanted. All they had to do was jump into the water and swim to the cave at the bottom. So they all did and they all drowned and then he took all their stuff and their houses (the entire village) and lived happily ever after as the richest guy who owned an entire town.
Great video. Also, do you know the video game The Path? It takes the story of Red Riding Hood in an interesting direction, that it's about growing up and if you never venture in the forest and make it to grandma's house by staying on the path, you lose. I suggest looking into it.
The could be that "cut and swon the belly of the beast with rocks", related to the filling the tomb with rocks, on and inside, measures that been that to prevent bodies possesed by vengefull spirits (revenants) return from their graves? Even the greek and slavic name for the revenant, 'varcolaki and 'wurdulak', can leave their bodies/shapeshift into wolfs and other nuctornal animals, and was the proto-type for the modern werewolf and vampire as one.
Huh, I have heard that people believed that the dead can get possessed and crawl out of their graves. However, never heard of the association with nocturnal animals other than bats. I always thought it was just the origin of vampires.
So.... Fairy Tale... BITD the Fey were not kind helpful little folk. So.... If they called them Fairy Tales back then... It's obviously going to be spooky scary. 🤔🤷🏻♀️😂✌🏻
Badass witch gma was my favourite. I wish she'd passed on some of her skills or knowledge to her daughter who coulda made the golden hood since the lil girl calls for "mama, mama" and not "gma, gma".
No less needed today than in its early iterations. Too bad we focus so much on the wolf so much, rather than the fact it's a predator, regardless of its skin.
That's the only Grimm's fairy tale I've read where the main character has an actual character arc ... Like Why did they do Snow White so dirty ... Both stories are about not trusting strangers, but Snow White comes out more like a moron than innocent and naive ... Little Red Cap actually grew and learned ...
@@londonmason6129 That doesn't excuse the bad writing and how both the villain and hero are much denser than concrete blocks ( not the brightest bulbs ).The message felt very forced ... At least Little Red learned something from her experiences , both stories have the same message but Little Red Cap delivered it Much much better ... It baffles my mind how the quality of the writing would drastically change from story to story in certain authors ... Like the Brothers Grimm,in Snow White the story and characters are not so well written ( faaaar from it ) and yet in Little Red Cap the exact same message gets delivered much muuuch better ( should be noted that some version of those stories were written by either brothers ,so that kind of explains the difference in quality ). Charles Perrault on the other hand,In La Bell a Bois Dormant ( Sleeping Beauty of the Woods ) the story is quite plain and the message comes out of nowhere ... But in Cendrillon ,the character has an arc and as far as fairytales go is superbly written ... By far the best iteration I've read ... Then we go to Giamputista Bassile,Sole Luna e Talia is straight up trash ... No comments ok that,La Gatta Cenerentola gives interesting concepts and characters but it doesn't elaborate on them ... Petrosinela on the other hand ( asides it's expected fairytale flaws ) it's a masterpiece with an active and strong protagonist believable romance 💒 and dark tone and atmosphere ... Penta without hands is also on the same level as Petrosinela ... So ,one shallow protagonist ,one interesting but underdeveloped, and two great ... Guess certain stories are more inspiring than others ...
"Snow White" was a fairy tale about the complexity of feminity and beauty, it talked about how beauty was the only power for women, especially at that time, and how this power could quickly fade away with age. That is why she tried to kill snow white because she tried to regain this power that she doesn't have anymore and that her daughter ( because in the original it was her daughter) could use now. And I haven't invented this, go make your own recherche on this fairy tale and you will see that this is the real message. So I don't know why you compare it to "little red ridding Hood" which doesn't even have this message. Also just because she was seven that doesn't mean she was stupid, try to don't listen to a stranger at a young age then nobody told you that you shouldn't do it ( yeah because her only parental figure try to kill her so off she isn't going to tell her to not trust a stranger ). Also fairy talel aren't suppose a support developed story like the lord of the ring, like the title it suppose to be "fairy" "tale" so expecting those kind of tale to be some super developed story is like asking a short film to be 2 hours long, that is not the right format to do it. And that doesn't that the story wasn't delivered well, it was a tell about feminity and it told a story about feminity, it's wasn't trying to tell a moral because it wasn't the point of the story. And you talked about the character Cinderella being well developed in compare to snow white, please tell me how killing her old stepmother and replace her by her maid without any remorse was some kind of good character development ( yeah, that what happened in the original fairy tale ). and what moral does beauty and the best have, "just shut up and don't complain about your husband if he still give you a house and food" because that was the original moral too. Anyway why you are so angry about "Snow White" when you don't even know the original tell and message of this story ( and you don't know the message of the other fairytales either) and don't t even understand the format of this fairy tale. Did you even made some research on it before writing this comment. Because a lot of thing you are complaining about are out of the subject and made no sense whatsoever.
These are the reasons I drink cranberry juice. The reasons I get so angry when people touch my scrapbook . The reason I bring a water bottle every day to school, and never fill it with anything with calories. I have been working on this, since I could ever remember, since I was single digits. Mother sniv, who is telling this to a therapist; she misses home and Aurora. (aurora was her girlfriends name, she died as she lived; very angry.)
Drowning in hot dog water is a hell of a way to go. Also "Wait I can't, I have to take a massive dump" is maybe the single best excuse to get out of basically any situation ever.
so the correct version of this in the eyes of everyone is little girl goes to grandmother's, meets a monster that asks where are you going she tells the truth, the monster plays pretend grandmother
I'm Francophone, and, the only version I had was «Les contes de Mêre l'Oie». Those tales had NO filter. In those, the Cinderella and Snow White stories are... How can we say... Disturbing. Cinderella's step sisters chopping pieces of their feet to fit the slipper, or the witch in Snow White made to don red hot iron boots and forced to dance until she dies of exhaustion.
When i was little ma family useto tell the hundsman version to us but after the sew up the wolfs belly he woke up thirsty and vent to a river to dring where the rocks caused him to toppel over and drown (sry about the gramar)
I’m surprised that in the third telling with an ogre rather than a wolf after said ogre says… OGRE: Drink and keep quiet. It’s your grandmother’s blood. There’s no… RED: What did you say? OGRE: Drink and keep quiet.
I actually remember when American McGee's Grimm was released! Each of them were like Katamari Damacy game, but you turn the light hearted stories into their original darkened versions. (Well, in some cases, it's different. Like Iron John being turned into a Terminator themed story. Don't ask me why though. ^^; ) Red Riding Hood's one of them. And as Grimm explained, in Perrault's version, the Wolf gobbles up AND digests both Red AND her Grandma. So yeah, that's about as dark of a story as it gets! I wonder if that's how the "Vore" fetish came to be now?
I know a version where the wolf is sewed up with rocks and peas, then goes to the well, the peas make his stomach bloated, so he takes a nap, then the grandma, red riding, and hunter throw him in the well, where drowns because of the rocks😅 also greetings from czechia 👋🏻👋🏻👋🏻🇨🇿🙃😅🤷🏼♀️😏🤫🤌🥴
i've read only the first 2 versions of it, but holy- they are the less scary of them all ! i cant believe that people in the dat had to read this to their kids...
As distressing as it might seem to us today, there simply WAS a tendency for girls to be considered "grown up" or "of age" much earlier than we do. I'm not condoning the ideas nor practice, by any stretch, but there IS a context to consider. We HAVE documentation and science to back the point that humans aren't fully adult until around the 24 to 26 year-old range, when the prefrontal cortex is "fully formed" (not 100% on how the science exactly defines it)... They didn't back in the day, so there was a lot of very arbitrary "case by case" decisions as to what exactly constituted "maturity"... We like to think we've got a good bead on everything, but the reality is that you can NOT simply delineate everything about anything, let alone human behavior, to a "hard line". Nature simply does NOT work that way. You don't go to sleep a kid one night and wake up an adult the next day. There's no such order of change... Just cautionary here... be careful about how dismissive we get about the contextual references we make from literature of any kind. Child brides WERE rare, but they did happen. There were a lot of weird and dubious practices back in the day, reasoned or excused for the situations. These writers and storytellers are reflective of that... NOT the instigators of it. ;o)
What's the difference between a wicker basket and wicker box? Wicker basket is what Little Red Hood carried to Grandma's house. Wicker box is what Elmer Fudd does to his girlfriend on special occasions.
Considering what fanfics people write now, I can't even imagine what variations of fairytales were told back then and what the motivations would have been.
"Little girls this seems to say, never stop upon your way. Never trust a stranger friend, for no one knows how it will end. Handsome he may be or kind, brave or daring never mind. For trust in me and it's the truth, sweetest tongue, hath sharpest tooth." Moral of the oldest version of this story i know.
Little Red saw all the red flags and assumed she was at the circus.
New idiom just dropped
@@aquamarie3117 *deep bow*
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@@aquamarie3117 A new idiom deserving of wider circulation.
Little red flag ingnorer
The cat referring to Red as a slut is because way back then it was a term meaning careless or messy, so her eating the grandmother without a concern is actually very fitting for the cat to call her a slut.
So back in those days slut meant to be careless and foolish instead of its modern meaning
And the phrase 'break the bottle' meant to lose one's virginity not unlike 'popping your cherry'
I absolutely love your character design
@calebaddai622 Thank you! It's a zombie (undead) frog. But a Peruvian dart frog specifically, they're the only monogamous species of frog, and they have toxic saliva. I like frogs.
Still funny to her a cat calling a child a slut for preforming cannibalism
There is an even older version of the tale "Little Red Hat." It is called "the Story of Grandmother" and it is by Paul Delarue. In this older version the wolf is a "bzou" or werewolf. It plays out the same as the version you said with a few differences. When she eats the meat and drinks the "wine" there is a reference to her being in "communion" with her granny. A reference to the Christian practice of eating bread and drinking wine as a stand-in for Christ's flesh and blood. Also, the cat says, "A slut is she who eats the flesh and drinks the blood of her grandmother." "Slut" used to refer to someone of loose morals who was low class, rather than just someone who was sexually promiscuous or unfaithful. Also, the rock or pine road conversation with the ogre happens in this tale too. Being a "bzou" this antagonist is less wolf-like and more man-like than in many versions. He may be more like an ogre.
Interesting🫢
Yeah slut/slutty in german mostly means to be messy
like if you don't tidy your room and things are not organised then you'd be called that.
As "slutty" versions go, there was a variation about her that made round when I was in the Navy... Red was closer to the 16 to 19 territory... and "Hot as a firecracker"... AND of course the wolf was the obvious "fiend" allegory... ONLY when the wolf set upon her, he ripped all her clothes off, until revealing her nastiness beneath... like green tints to the hair and slime and pus oozing... even slugs and stuff crawling around her... and as he recoiled into the corner whimpering, Red stood triumphant and growled, "OH NO, you don't... NOW you gotta follow the storyline and EAT ME!!!"
...a tad gross and more than a little tongue-in-cheek for a "kid's story"... but maybe it wasn't 100% intended for children below a certain age... haha ;o)
Slut used to mean slovenly or kept an unclean house. 'Loose morals' was a euphemism for promiscuous.
When my kids were little, I made the wolf a werewolf, to explain how it could impersonate Grandma...and slowly become wolflike as Little Red cuddles with her.
It would actually make a lot of sense if the story was to warn young girls from getting taken advantage of. These things unfortunately had always happened (probably even more commonly in the past than nowadays). And "the wolf" metaphor would probably be the best way to portray it to children, especially when sex was a highly taboo topic.
Yes, I completely agree with you.
Probably? Yeah I'd say so.
Even when it isn't specifically a cautionary tale about sexual abuse, I think it's commonly used to remind children to be wary of "helpful" strangers - the woodcutter is usually depicted as someone Red knows who offers her useful advice which she ignores, while the Wolf takes on the appearance of a stranger and asks her probing questions which she naively answers.
I once tried to ask a child on a school playground for directions, and was annoyed when he walked away without a word, then noticed that *_ALL_* of the kids were walking towards the school like chicks running under mother hen, and understood they were complying with instructions and I was a "stranger" who had walked by asking a "seemingly harmless question".
Oops.
Yeah, from what I was told by my mother who was really into history, mythology and anthropology during her younger years (and studied all 3 in college) wolf was pretty, much shorthand for r*pist in many places back in the day, and during the witch hunts period some horrible criminals were accused of being actual werewolves.
Medieval and earlier people didn't like wolves.
@@arcadiaberger9204Why would you ask a kid for directions? and directly on a playground? No adults to ask? Was this before mobile phones?
I think that the wolf was always a metaphor for a predatory adult human.
I thought that was ovi.
@@persuesskywalker9994 What is an ovi? Is it similar to a werewolf?
@Ike662 More often abbreviated as "obv", to make it more obvi.
@@TheProxy066it’s short for obvious
Me too
A seventeenth-century French phrase was to have “seen the wolf” which was slang for a girl losing her innocence or virginity. I think the French version of riding hood is the most adult version with the girl being presented as a young attractive woman rather than a child. The wolf's hunger can be interrupted as desire, which is why wolf leads her to stripping and laying with him. In another further variation, the wolf uses the grandmother's blood and flesh as wine and dinner to seduce the woman before asking her to lay with him. The ending is the woman being none the wiser to the end, thinking it's her grandmother even after she slips under the covers, and then is devoured by the wolf.
It literally says children, not young woman so it's worse.
"Little girls, this seems to say
Never stop upon your way
Never trust a stranger friend
No-one knows how it will end
As you're pretty, so be wise
Wolves may lurk in every guise
Now as then, 'tis simple truth
Sweetest tongue has sharpest tooth."
nice poem, buddy 😊😀
People have really made these tales less dark
What a big heart I have, the better to love you with. Little red riding hood, even bad wolves can be good
@@margaretschultz6209 good song
The funny thing is they still are pretty dark considering... and the backstory behind them is even more dark...
@@victoriasimms4161 When I finally heard the whole song, I was kind of reassured that by the end the "wolf" was promising to behave politely to show his intentions weren't harmful. I told my wife I thought it was a good thing that the song wasn't as antisocial as it had seemed at its beginning.
I think my favourite version has to be the one that spells out that it is an allegory for sexual predators. It's a warning that many young red hoods, no matter what time period, should pay heed, and the nature of the story makes it easy to keep in mind.
In all of them the wolf is an allegory for real life human predators...
As the Grandmother in Telltale's The Path said, "Wolves leark in many guise, the sweetest tongue can have the sharpest tooth"
This has always been one of my favorite fairytales and currently making my own adaptation of the story set in the 1920’s. I really enjoyed the Golden Leaf story.
Little Red Riding Hood is one of if not my favorite fairytale, too. My adaptation takes place during the 1940s, though.
Wow! I love the idea of a 1920s and 40s-inspired version of that story!
my favourite part of the story is how they must have thought that being asleep = not being able to feel scissors or stones in your stomach
Yeah, that part always weirded me out even as a child. One would certainly feel being cut open unless they were on some strong anaesthetic. Tho I guess it doesn't really matter for the story. xD
If I were reading my kids that story, I would definitely rewrite it on the fly, something I learned from my late wife, who for instance had told the children she had reared before she met me that Mama Bear's porridge was "too salty. You may hear some people say it was too cold, but I think you can tell what's wrong with that idea, since Baby Bear's porridge was just right." Sure enough, her kids, even at the bedtime story age, knew good and well that a larger bowl would cool off slower than a smaller one.
For my kids, I'd have added in a comment about Our Heroine knowing "a magic chant that would cause you to feel no pain for a night and a day" or something like that.
You know what story you should really check out if you want to get freaked out? 'The Goat with Three Kids' written by Ion Creangă. It's a Romanian story, from the late 19th century, which has a plot similar to 'The Wolf and the Seven Young Goats' by the Grimm brothers, only much more.... disturbing. It has a lot of gruesome details which I'll leave out (don't want to give any spoilers). It's much more horrifying than the Grimm farytale and it's overall just messed up. I really recommend it (and who knows, maybe you'll decide to make a video about it, but only if you want to😊).
Seriously, Romania like many like Eastern European culture just is so hardcore when it comes to their myths.
Never thought i'd find romanians in this comment section... But i'm always glad when we find each other!
I'm pretty sure she did The Goat With 3 Kids. Was it the one where the wolf dresses up like a goat until the kids let it in? And one goat hides in the clock
@@Olivia-lo7mi No, that's not the one. That is Grimm's fairytale, 'The Wolf and Seven Little Goats'. There, there are seven goats, not three, and in the end they all survive. In this one that I'm talking about, 'The Goat with Three Kids', there are only three little goats, and the first two are eaten by the wolf and don't survive, they are dead period. Thr youngest one hides up the chimney, not inside the clock, and the manner in which the wolf dies is different here (the goat burns him alive then stones him to death as opposed to filling his stomach with rocks after freeing the kids, then sewing back shut). There are also many othrr gruesome details here (after eating the two kids and failing to find the third one, the wolf, in an attempt to mock the goat even more and cause her even more pain, he smears the walls of the house with her kids' blood. And that's nkt even the worst that he does. Also, in this version, the wolf is not just any wolf, but the godfather of the kids and an in law of the goat, which makes this even more disturbing in my opinion).
@@ananicoleta8000 Ohhh okay gotcha. That sounds very gruesome.
A another thing I like about Golden Hood is how unlike the other stories it gives a somewhat good explanation on why gold didn’t freak out when she saw the talking wolf because gold is a witches granddaughter this isn’t probably isn’t the first time she has saw a talking animal or something weird like this which explains why she’s treating this as normal
You were definately not born before 1995.
Good on the huntsman for immediately assuming the wolf didn't know how to chew.
16:34 definitely the grandma witch one. It just makes sense. Grandma as a witch who collects and sells herbs does gave a legitimate reason to live away from other people in the woods where the herbs she collects can be found.
Imagine if granny was a wolf like creature, and the big bad himself is just a guy in a costume.
It’s then revealed that red is also one of these creatures, however she hasn’t matured yet and still looks like a human.
I would actually read this pls make a. Book out of this
That would actually be an interesting spin on it. Would certainly like to see some kind of adaptation (book, movie or game) that uses it. Tho probably RPG maker-style game would be the simplest to make.
Isn't that kind of the plot from Once Upon A Time?
I like your idea
A few years ago I listened to a radio podcast by two professional folklorists where they said these same things that originally Little Red Riding Hood ended with the wolf eating them all and no one came to save them. The purpose of the ending was to startle the listeners with the loud roar that comes when the wolf jumps at Red Riding Hood, whom he has called to his side. According to those folklorists, the ending where Little Red Riding Hood is freed by a hunter, tailor, carpenter or woodcutter is a much later addition to the story and is missing from the oldest versions. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to find these versions they talked about in the radio podcast.
Although I must have been very young, like four or five, I still remember quite vividly my horror when my mother first read to me the wolf's words, *_"All the better to EAT you with, my dear!"_* in a ferocious growl.
I took immense pleasure in having the privilege of reading the same words to my first child for the first time and terrifying him in the same way.
I also got to read them to the three children my wife and I adopted later, even though they were older, because (having been born in a non-Western country) they had never heard the story before, although they weren't quite as bowled-over by my performance as the wolf.
Little golden hood is the best version both little golden hood, and the grandmother live and I just love the grandmother in this version she’s this cool old, sassy witch who saves her granddaughter from certain death and I also love how the hood in this story has a actual purpose. It’s pretty much saves little golden Hood from getting eaten by the wolf by burning his mouth.
I'm also kind of a fan of the modern complete deconstructing versions where they do things like COMBINE Red Riding Hood and the wolf into one being--a werewolf!--and/or make the granny a badass old lady with a shotgun. Not at all the original intent(s), but still fun to play with, and you still get violence and bloodshed, just....dealt by other characters. Heheh.
(also werewolf are awesome in general, so there's that.)
It makes me wish my own grandmother was a witch.
@@zero69kage Are you sure she isn't? Grandmothers can surprise you.
@@arcadiaberger9204 my grandma on my dad's side was too Mormon. And the one on my mom's side is super Christian.
@@zero69kage Ah, well.
Now I'm thinking about what kind of Witchcraft my own grandmother might have learned, given her own family's background in Oklahoma, and Missouri before that - she might have inherited classic European craft from her motherline, plus having done an apprenticeship with a pratitioner of the craft of one or more of the displaced Native tribes.
With all of the suffering those nations went through on their way to the "Indian Territory", and the suffering she and my grandfather endured as members of the legendary "Okie" displacement of the 1930s, she might have acquired, and been sorely tempted to use, some very bleak and very black magicks indeed, only restrained by the extraordinary moral uprightness she possessed IRL.
Awesome witchy power Granny! Get those coins and slay that wolf, best version.
This continued addition to the story has confirmed that Ruby Red from "Once Upon a Time" might be connected to that version of the tale but the one flaw with that is the fact that she was a werewolf by blood just like she was in "Red Riding Hood; Wolf Hunter" which does not line up at all with "Once Upon a Time" either. But of course neither story was a Disney Publishing brand anyway.
The Golden Hood one was my favorite because nobody got eaten. Getting eaten (especially alive) is my worst fear. I think the Golden Hood one turned out the best for everyone involved (except the wolf, obvs).
I wasn't aware of these other versions - its funny how with fairy tales there is always a version involving cannibalism
Here's a different version for you're consideration. Little Red Ridding Hood walks into Grandma's bedroom and the Wolf is in the bed pretending to be Grandma. Red starts out "Grandma what big ears you have..." "All the better to hear you with..." Red then says "Grandma what big eyes you have..." "All the better to see you with..." But before Red asks another question she stops, puts her hands on her hips and gives the Wolf a knowing look. "You're the Wolf aren't you, my friends warned me about you're tricks." Suddenly Red lifts up the bed covers and sees what the Wolf really is hiding. Red shook her head disapprovingly. "Goldlocks is right, it's not that big..."
😂😂😂 what story is that? 🤣🤣🤣
This reminds me of a scene in Buffy the Vampire Slayer wherein Xander wolfishly dressed asks a red-hooded Buffy, "What's in the basket, little girl?"
"Weapons," Buffy succinctly replies.
I like this tale, thanks for explaining the different versions. I've heard of all of these. I'm surprised you didn't mention Beatrix Potter's The Tale of Jemima Puddle Duck (some people classify it as a version of the story and Beatrix Potter's version of Red Riding Hood ends like Perrault's version too.).
There's two versions of the tale I've heard:
One from the soundtrack of The Path (a videogame based on versions of Little Red Riding Hood which I'm sure everyone in the comments and you have heard of) which is the same as the French tale of The Grandmother (path of needles or path of pins and all) but after she goes out to "relieve herself" (another way of saying "do it outside."), and the bzou tying the "sturdy thread" about her ankle, she cuts the thread with sewing scissors and ties it to a plum tree. The bzou calls her twice but there's no reply; so he leaps from bed, follows the thread, and finds Red gone. He chases after Red and either she 1) makes it safely home and shuts the door as the wolf arrives (I think you forgot to mention that in the version you told) or 2) In the The Path soundtrack and in a book I've read Red runs until she reaches a river; she calls some laundresses to help her cross it. The laundresses spread a sheet over the water, and Red safely crosses over the river. The bzou tries to do the same, but when he's halfway across the laundresses let go of the sheet. This makes him fall into the water and drown.
The other version is from Italy called La Finta Nonna or The False Grandmother by Itala Calvino (who drew from Antonio De Nino's Fiable). There's no red hood mentioned, but the story is implied as a version of Red Riding Hood. It goes like this: A woman had to sift flour, so she sends her daughter to her grandmother's in order to go and borrow the sifter. The girl packs her snack and sets off. She comes to a river, and asks it to let her pass. The river agrees to do so in exchange for her ring-shaped cakes, because it loved them and enjoyed twirling them in its whirlpools. The girl gives the river what it asked for, and it lowers its waters to let her through. Soon, the girl comes to a gate and asks to be let through; the gate lets her go through after she gives it the bread with oil (the gate likes bread with oil and it helps oil its rusty hinges). Finally, the girl reaches her grandmother's house, but the door is shut tight.
"Grandmother, Grandmother come let me in."
"I'm in bed sick. Come through the window."
"I can't make it."
"Come through the cat door."
"I can't squeeze through."
"Well, wait a minute." With that, the grandmother lowers a rope, and pulls the girl up through the window. There the girl finds herself in the darkened house. Little does she know that it's not her grandmother in the bed, but an ogress who'd gobbled up her grandmother from head to toe, except for the teeth (left to stew in a small stew pan) and the ears (left to fry in a frying pan).
The girl asks for the sifter but the "grandmother" says, "It's late. I'll give it to you tomorrow. Come to bed." But the girl is hungry, so she's offered "beans" from the pot. The girl stirred them around saying they're too hard. Next, she's offered "fritters" from the frying pan. The girl poked them with the fork saying they're not crisp. "Well, come to bed," says the "grandmother." "You can eat tomorrow." The girl gets into bed, and feels "Grandmother's" hands, chest and hips. As she does so, this leads to a few questions that other Red Riding Hoods ask ("Why are your hands hairy?" "From wearing too many rings on my fingers." "Why is your chest so hairy?" "From wearing too many necklaces about my neck." "Why are your hips so hairy?" "I wore my corset too tight.") Then the girl felt her "grandmother's" tail, and thinks, "Wait a second, hairy or not, Grandmother doesn't have a tail." This made her realize that her "grandmother" was really an ogress! (And not the friendly kickass Princess Fiona kind. DUN DUN DUUUUUN!) So, like some Red Riding Hoods, she pretends to need the bathroom before going to sleep. The ogress allows this: "You may do it in the barn below. I'll let you down through the trapdoor and then draw you back up." So, like before, the ogress ties a rope about the girl, and lowers her down into the barn. No sooner is she down there, than the girl unties it and brings a nanny goat over. Then she starts tying the rope about the goat so it could take her place. "Are you finished?" asked the ogress. "Just a moment," answers the girl. Soon, she finishes tying up the nanny goat. "Yes, I am finished. Pull me back up." The ogress pulls and the girl starts yelling, "HAIRY OGRESS HAIRY OGRESS!" Then she throws open the barn door and skedaddles. The ogress pulls, but instead of the girl coming back up, it was the nanny goat! Angrily, the ogress jumps out of bed, and starts after the girl. Seeing the child had reached the rake gate, the ogress yells at it to not let the girl pass, but the rake gate lets the girl through because of her giving it the bread with oil. The same thing happens with the river ("Don't let the girl pass river!" "Of course I'll let her pass, she gave me her ring-shaped cakes."). The ogress tries to get through and chase the girl, but the river didn't lower its waters. And so, the ogress was swept away in the current, leaving the girl to make faces at her.
Nice. That's awesome.
the italian one is kinda similar to a few versions of baba yaga
"Why are your hips so hairy?" "I wore my corset too tight." has to be the most hilarious question and response I've ever heard in a fairy tale.
@@saphicxx Really? How so? Perhaps Calvino was influenced by those versions.
This most disturbing is that the wolf is an allegory on not just strangers but for freaks of a sickening nature.... yikes.
You know you should do The Hunchback of Notre Dame next because in my opinion that is literally the darkest and saddest story that Disney chose to adapt and make it less so.
By the way: In German Grimm's fairy tales don't end with "Happy ever after" but rather with something akin to "and if they haven't died by now, they are still alive today." Pretty uplifting, right?
"Legends are lessons they ring with truth. "Disney's Brave
Lessens we can almost all agree are boring. Fairy tales were originally a way to make sure a lesson was heard. We all could use lessons like this. Metaphorical lessons are also super fun imho
There is also a version in Jin-Ro, in which Little Red was locked in her monther's basement and put in metal clothing. Only when she wore out her metal clothing was she allowed to go visit grandma.
Not to mention stomach acid and the digestive system in general. She definitely shouldn't have been chillin' in there unscathed (or, uh, alive)
Your drawings are so unique and amazing. I enjoy your channel very much 😊
I like the narrator’s voice, it’s very clear and enthusiastic
I guess none of us felt sorry for the wolf in this fairy tale when we were kids. Also, let me state right away that I still don't feel sorry for the wolf. It is absurd to pity bad people, since the wicked should not go unpunished.
If we thought this was real life, they would immediately arrest a mother trying to kill her stepdaughter or a woman trying to cook two small children.
So, of course, if a wolf eats a human, it is not possible to punish him in real life, but in fairy tales, wolves can think like humans.
In some reiterations of this tale Grandma is actually a Witch who is out at market and does come back to save her granddaughter by either obliterating the big bad worlf or cursing him
The one with the witch grandma was savage.
I sometimes question if the brothers grimm deserve the title "grimm" when the seemed to make it less dark than there older counter parts.
Moral of the story stay away from the ones that claim they are the “nice guy” RUN FAR AWAY😭
I found your channel recently, i love your animations, it’s like haunted fairy tales or something out of Tim burton
I love hearing all the stories and the comparisons
The last story about the wolf being filled up with lyme reminds me of the Wawel dragon story where a shoemaker fills up a sheep full of gunpowder & feeds it to a dragon. The gunpowder causes so much thirst when the dragon eats it that it drinks from the Wisła river (or Vistula as you Anglophones say it) & literally pops like a balloon
For shame on the cat that didn't defend grandma, warn red, and casts shame
There's a version of this where red recognizes right away that the wolf is not her grandmother and pulls a gun out of her basket and shoots the wolf dead.
I’m pretty sure you’re talking about the poem, I love that poem
The third and fourth versions you told were the medieval Italian folktale la finta nonna (“the false grandmother”)
You should read “the Goat and its 3 kits”. It is the Romanian version of “the Goat and its 7 kits” by the Brothers Grimm, only it is more graphic.
My first video was about Little Red Riding Hood! Let me tell you, when I got to the part where little red is giving the wolf all of her grannie's info, I was howling😂
The True History of Little Golden Hood is probably my favorite version of the story! But it's so obscure that people seldom mention it when discussing the different versions of Red Riding Hood. I'm happy to finally hear about it! :3
I heard that this story represent the the sun (the girl) eaten by the sun-eater (wolf, ogre ect.).
Also, Ogres have etymologic relation to the greeck orcus, the underworld punisher of the ones who broke their oaths, and illustraited in similiar way - big and hairy.
Thank you for making these wonderful, beautifully illustrated and animated videos! 🐺🖤
Its always a good day when abitfrank posts a video
I like how one version elaborates on the lesson like a fable.
Golden one really needs to be shown more because that sounds so badass. Seriously, you know how all those modern retellings have a badass grandma well this version did it first in the 1800's. Heck, maybe have the golden red riding hood be a cousin of red through their grandmothers being being sisters.
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I also heard about a story where Red is actually an undead child brought back to live. But because, you know, necromancy, sin, dead does not belong in the land of living, etc, she was send away to aimlessly wonder looking for her grandma (who died a long time ago and wasn't reanimated) to deliver vide and bread. Eventually she was eated by a wolf who for some reasons is described as a scavanger cleansing the evil and restoring everyone to their natural order, or something like that.
Why does so many of these stories have Little Red Riding Hood getting cozy with her grandmother without her clothes on? Was that believe to a cure all?
Golden hood was badass, frankly sounds like a modern twist on it. There's a version where the wolf gets his head cut off while he sleeps, and they have to climb out of his throat. Something about it feels much more representative of the kind of trauma the reality behind the metaphor would bring.
The most disturbing one I've ever read though is a version where the wolf is a man "wearing a wolf's clothes". At the cottage everything is fine, and the visit with Grandma is uneventful. But when she goes out the front door to go home, the man, who just looked like a sleeping dog, throws a sack over her head and carries her off, the only thing left behind being the red coat she was putting on. No cannibalism. No dead granny. Just an unmetaphorical kidnapping. It ends with a line something like "she was seen never again from that day forth, but by the knowledge of the wolf man". Which... that could imply a bunch of things... Pretty messed up.
The last grim story I read at random from my grim story collection was one about a small poor villager in a town full of rich villagers.
He and his wife really want a cow, that's their biggest wish. So one day the villager has a woodworker make him a wooden calf with its head to the floor (as if it's eating). Then paints the calf brown. He gives it to a herder who (believes it's real) then loses it. The villager then gaslights him and blames him for having lost his calf. demanding reparations. The apologetic cow herder gives him a free cow. Now his dream has come true, but since he and his wife can't actually take care of (feed) a cow they decide to slaughter it. They quickly eat all the meat and are left with bone and hide. The man decides to take the hide to town to sell it to min max his scam. On his way there he lodges at a millers house, whos wife takes pity on him and allows him to sleep inside sheltered from the storm outside. Gives him some dry bread and a piece of cheese. Then a priest comes in and the wife brings out all the meat, pastries and wine she has. The villager pretending to sleep finds out the millers wife is cheating on him. The miller then comes home unexpectedly saying he's hungry. The wife tells him they have nothing but stale bread and cheese (lol, the priest is hiding in a closet near the door) Using his knowledge of the wife's affair, the meat and stuff she hid, and a crow with broken wings he wrapped in his leather that he convinced the man is a "soothseeer"; he scams the miller out of an enormous amount of money, while saving the priest from his predicament. Next day he goes to town, sells his hide for a few coins and returns to his village. Where he renovates and enlarges his home making it the largest house in the village.
When they ask him how he got his money, since he was the poorest of them. He tells them the store in town is paying a huge amount of money for hides. Much more than the cows are worth. He just sold one hide and the store gave him a ton of gold. So they all slaughter their cows and then find out their hides are worthless when they go to town and as result condemn him to death. He instead tricks a poor sheep herder to take his place (downing horribly in a wooden barrel) then steels all his sheep. Returns to the village who are flabbergasted and ask how he survived, more importantly where he got all those sheep. Sp he tells them he escaped from the barrel by some miracle, then swam into a cave and when he came up he found a valley full of thousands of sheep, he just took as many as he could take with him and returned to the village. Telling the villagers that there were thousands more in the valley and they could also go get themselves as many sheep as they wanted. All they had to do was jump into the water and swim to the cave at the bottom. So they all did and they all drowned and then he took all their stuff and their houses (the entire village) and lived happily ever after as the richest guy who owned an entire town.
Perrault literally called out nice guy syndrome in the 1600s
Awesome animations! Really interesting
Great video. Also, do you know the video game The Path? It takes the story of Red Riding Hood in an interesting direction, that it's about growing up and if you never venture in the forest and make it to grandma's house by staying on the path, you lose. I suggest looking into it.
The could be that "cut and swon the belly of the beast with rocks", related to the filling the tomb with rocks, on and inside, measures that been that to prevent bodies possesed by vengefull spirits (revenants) return from their graves? Even the greek and slavic name for the revenant, 'varcolaki and 'wurdulak', can leave their bodies/shapeshift into wolfs and other nuctornal animals, and was the proto-type for the modern werewolf and vampire as one.
Huh, I have heard that people believed that the dead can get possessed and crawl out of their graves. However, never heard of the association with nocturnal animals other than bats. I always thought it was just the origin of vampires.
Yah, i glad there is more fellas like you that interest this shamanic origin🧐😁
So.... Fairy Tale... BITD the Fey were not kind helpful little folk. So.... If they called them Fairy Tales back then... It's obviously going to be spooky scary.
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12:38 Pinching off a hot loaf right in the bed. 😅
Edit: lol, right after this I got an ad for Cottonelle!!
The animation is fire, great video
Badass witch gma was my favourite. I wish she'd passed on some of her skills or knowledge to her daughter who coulda made the golden hood since the lil girl calls for "mama, mama" and not "gma, gma".
I love all of red riding hood stories so much thanks.❤
No less needed today than in its early iterations. Too bad we focus so much on the wolf so much, rather than the fact it's a predator, regardless of its skin.
This tale is dark and twisted but I love it
my ever after high childhood has changed so much, R.I.P for remona badwolf and cerise hood
No wonder the wolf couldn't eat Granny, she was Red's kickers Witch grandma! I do adore all your variants of Red renditions cute artworks!
Old little red riding hood: ****little gets eating by a wolf/orger at the end in every version****
Me: oh brother this writers stinks!
That's the only Grimm's fairy tale I've read where the main character has an actual character arc ... Like Why did they do Snow White so dirty ... Both stories are about not trusting strangers, but Snow White comes out more like a moron than innocent and naive ... Little Red Cap actually grew and learned ...
To be fair Snow White is supposed to be 7 in the fairytale
@@londonmason6129 That doesn't excuse the bad writing and how both the villain and hero are much denser than concrete blocks ( not the brightest bulbs ).The message felt very forced ... At least Little Red learned something from her experiences , both stories have the same message but Little Red Cap delivered it Much much better ... It baffles my mind how the quality of the writing would drastically change from story to story in certain authors ... Like the Brothers Grimm,in Snow White the story and characters are not so well written ( faaaar from it ) and yet in Little Red Cap the exact same message gets delivered much muuuch better ( should be noted that some version of those stories were written by either brothers ,so that kind of explains the difference in quality ). Charles Perrault on the other hand,In La Bell a Bois Dormant ( Sleeping Beauty of the Woods ) the story is quite plain and the message comes out of nowhere ... But in Cendrillon ,the character has an arc and as far as fairytales go is superbly written ... By far the best iteration I've read ... Then we go to Giamputista Bassile,Sole Luna e Talia is straight up trash ... No comments ok that,La Gatta Cenerentola gives interesting concepts and characters but it doesn't elaborate on them ... Petrosinela on the other hand ( asides it's expected fairytale flaws ) it's a masterpiece with an active and strong protagonist believable romance 💒 and dark tone and atmosphere ... Penta without hands is also on the same level as Petrosinela ... So ,one shallow protagonist ,one interesting but underdeveloped, and two great ... Guess certain stories are more inspiring than others ...
"Snow White" was a fairy tale about the complexity of feminity and beauty, it talked about how beauty was the only power for women, especially at that time, and how this power could quickly fade away with age. That is why she tried to kill snow white because she tried to regain this power that she doesn't have anymore and that her daughter ( because in the original it was her daughter) could use now. And I haven't invented this, go make your own recherche on this fairy tale and you will see that this is the real message. So I don't know why you compare it to "little red ridding Hood" which doesn't even have this message. Also just because she was seven that doesn't mean she was stupid, try to don't listen to a stranger at a young age then nobody told you that you shouldn't do it ( yeah because her only parental figure try to kill her so off she isn't going to tell her to not trust a stranger ). Also fairy talel aren't suppose a support developed story like the lord of the ring, like the title it suppose to be "fairy" "tale" so expecting those kind of tale to be some super developed story is like asking a short film to be 2 hours long, that is not the right format to do it. And that doesn't that the story wasn't delivered well, it was a tell about feminity and it told a story about feminity, it's wasn't trying to tell a moral because it wasn't the point of the story. And you talked about the character Cinderella being well developed in compare to snow white, please tell me how killing her old stepmother and replace her by her maid without any remorse was some kind of good character development ( yeah, that what happened in the original fairy tale ). and what moral does beauty and the best have, "just shut up and don't complain about your husband if he still give you a house and food" because that was the original moral too. Anyway why you are so angry about "Snow White" when you don't even know the original tell and message of this story ( and you don't know the message of the other fairytales either) and don't t even understand the format of this fairy tale. Did you even made some research on it before writing this comment. Because a lot of thing you are complaining about are out of the subject and made no sense whatsoever.
I liked the buff Grandma version best. BURN, PEDO-WOLF!!
These are the reasons I drink cranberry juice.
The reasons I get so angry when people touch my scrapbook .
The reason I bring a water bottle every day to school, and never fill it with anything with calories.
I have been working on this, since I could ever remember, since I was single digits.
Mother sniv, who is telling this to a therapist; she misses home and Aurora.
(aurora was her girlfriends name, she died as she lived; very angry.)
you have no idea how long i've been waiting for this video
There a Irish version of little red riding hood but instead of a red hood it's golden hood.
Drowning in hot dog water is a hell of a way to go. Also "Wait I can't, I have to take a massive dump" is maybe the single best excuse to get out of basically any situation ever.
so the correct version of this in the eyes of everyone is little girl goes to grandmother's, meets a monster that asks where are you going she tells the truth, the monster plays pretend grandmother
I'm Francophone, and, the only version I had was «Les contes de Mêre l'Oie». Those tales had NO filter.
In those, the Cinderella and Snow White stories are... How can we say... Disturbing. Cinderella's step sisters chopping pieces of their feet to fit the slipper, or the witch in Snow White made to don red hot iron boots and forced to dance until she dies of exhaustion.
"Grandma...what a full BEARD you have!"
When i was little ma family useto tell the hundsman version to us but after the sew up the wolfs belly he woke up thirsty and vent to a river to dring where the rocks caused him to toppel over and drown (sry about the gramar)
Oh, that's a very cool variation I hadn't heard before. Thank you for sharing.
Actually, we had this version in Poland too. Or at least it was in my childhood books.
I’m surprised that in the third telling with an ogre rather than a wolf after said ogre says…
OGRE: Drink and keep quiet. It’s your grandmother’s blood.
There’s no…
RED: What did you say?
OGRE: Drink and keep quiet.
Oh Red, my poor sweet summer child.
I actually remember when American McGee's Grimm was released!
Each of them were like Katamari Damacy game, but you turn the light hearted stories into their original darkened versions. (Well, in some cases, it's different. Like Iron John being turned into a Terminator themed story. Don't ask me why though. ^^; )
Red Riding Hood's one of them. And as Grimm explained, in Perrault's version, the Wolf gobbles up AND digests both Red AND her Grandma. So yeah, that's about as dark of a story as it gets!
I wonder if that's how the "Vore" fetish came to be now?
I'm excited for this!
The romanian lime filled stomach story reminds me of the Polish tale of the Wawel dragon. It has almost the same effect
I know a version where the wolf is sewed up with rocks and peas, then goes to the well, the peas make his stomach bloated, so he takes a nap, then the grandma, red riding, and hunter throw him in the well, where drowns because of the rocks😅 also greetings from czechia 👋🏻👋🏻👋🏻🇨🇿🙃😅🤷🏼♀️😏🤫🤌🥴
Have you seen the stop motion short, "My Little Goat"?
Initial release: March 9, 2018
Director: Tomoki Misato
If not, you need to.
I like the animation style
i've read only the first 2 versions of it, but holy-
they are the less scary of them all !
i cant believe that people in the dat had to read this to their kids...
As distressing as it might seem to us today, there simply WAS a tendency for girls to be considered "grown up" or "of age" much earlier than we do. I'm not condoning the ideas nor practice, by any stretch, but there IS a context to consider. We HAVE documentation and science to back the point that humans aren't fully adult until around the 24 to 26 year-old range, when the prefrontal cortex is "fully formed" (not 100% on how the science exactly defines it)... They didn't back in the day, so there was a lot of very arbitrary "case by case" decisions as to what exactly constituted "maturity"...
We like to think we've got a good bead on everything, but the reality is that you can NOT simply delineate everything about anything, let alone human behavior, to a "hard line". Nature simply does NOT work that way. You don't go to sleep a kid one night and wake up an adult the next day. There's no such order of change...
Just cautionary here... be careful about how dismissive we get about the contextual references we make from literature of any kind. Child brides WERE rare, but they did happen. There were a lot of weird and dubious practices back in the day, reasoned or excused for the situations. These writers and storytellers are reflective of that... NOT the instigators of it. ;o)
What's the difference between a wicker basket and wicker box?
Wicker basket is what Little Red Hood carried to Grandma's house.
Wicker box is what Elmer Fudd does to his girlfriend on special occasions.
Considering what fanfics people write now, I can't even imagine what variations of fairytales were told back then and what the motivations would have been.
i love these videos so much lol, they're so entertaining to watch!!
"Little girls this seems to say, never stop upon your way.
Never trust a stranger friend, for no one knows how it will end.
Handsome he may be or kind, brave or daring never mind.
For trust in me and it's the truth, sweetest tongue, hath sharpest tooth."
Moral of the oldest version of this story i know.
"Grandma, what a big tongue you have!"
"The better to EAT you with my dear!" (Eat your heart out Gene Simmons!)
Oh yayyy new vid!! :D
Also don't forget to eat and hydrate today and I hope you're doing well!!💕💕💕
Hehe i have learned a lot about the old stories since i started listening to your chanels 😁