The Brothers Grimm’s Little Red Riding Hood

“Little Red Cap:” A little girl, beloved by her grandmother and known for her red cap, is sent by her mother to bring her grandmother a meal. Little Cap assures her mother she’ll follow all directions, and goes off on the trail.

She is not afraid of the wolf when she sees him, and he peppers her with questions, learning of her destination, where he’ll get two victims. They walk together and he points out the natural life around them she is not paying attention to. She raises her eyes and runs after nosegay after nosegay off the path for her grandmother, and the wolf runs ahead of her.

At G-ma’s house, the wolf pretends he’s Cap, gaining entry into grandmother’s cottage, devours the old woman and disguises himself as her. Little Cap, arms full of flowers, is surprised to see the door open, crying “good morning” as her mother had admonished, and walks in. The famous dialogue proceeds, with the little girl noticing the wolf’s features, crescendoing into his devouring her.

Wolf, sated, snores loudly, drawing the attention of the Woodsman, who goes to check on grandmother. He snips open the carnivore’s stomach and his meal pops out. Little Cap fetches stones, and they fill the wolf’s belly with them and he falls dead. Grandmother is revived with the cake and wine her granddaughter brought.

Another time, Cap took cakes to her grandmother and was approached by another wolf, and they shut the old Greybeard out after she arrived, and he lurked. Grandmother got Red Cap to carry sausage water outside and pour it into the trough, and the wolf, smelling it, slipped off the roof and drowned in the trough. And Little Red Cap was free of the wolf menace.

00:00 Introduction

01:05 Little Red Riding Hood Reading

08:59 Beloved Little Girl Goes Out to Visit Grandmother

10:23 Mother Sends Riding Hood Off

12:10 Naïve Hood

14:21 The Wolf’s Knowledge

16:04 Finally, Red Cap Feels Unease

17:33 Stories End with Her Being Eaten

20:02 Crafty Red Riding Hood

20:51 A Didactic Tale

22:20 Wolf vs Red Cap

22:52 Red Cap’s Innocence and the Wolf’s Lust

26:08 The Wolf’s Sinning

28:05 The Hunter vs. the Wolf

28:38 The Female Characters Weaknesses

30:01 This Tale Warned You

32:50 The Second Wolf & Sausages

34:30 The Black & White Contrasts of this Story Heighten its Drama

(A Clip from the Episode “The Red Silk Ribbon” by Franx Xavier Von Schönwerth)

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