Little Red Riding Hood Little Red Riding Hood "Little Red Riding Hood" is a European fairy tale about a young girl and a Big Bad Wolf. Its origins can be traced back to the 10th century by several European folk tales, including one from Italy called "The False Grandmother" (), later written among others by Italo Calvino in the "Italian Folktales" collection; the best known versions were written by Charles Perrault 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 Ridinghood"", ""Little Red Cap""
Histoires ou contes du temps passé words "Contes de ma Mère l'Oy". The stories written for the 1697 edition were "The Sleeping Beauty", "Little Red Riding Hood", "Bluebeard", "The Master Cat, or Puss in Boots", "Cinderella", "Riquet with the Tuft", "Hop o' My Thumb", "Griselidis" ("La Patience de Grisélidis"), "The Ridiculous Wishes" ("Les Souhaits ridicules"), "Donkeyskin" ("Peau d'Ane") and "Diamonds and Toads" ("Les Fées"). Eight were newly written prose stories and three were stories previously written in verse. Each story ended with a rhymed, well-defined and cynical moral "Moralitè". Three were published earlier in the literary magazine "Mercure galant": "Griselidis" and "Suhait" in 1693, and "Sleeping