Why, before eating Little Red riding hood, the wolf asked her to undress and get to bed with him?

Question

Was he afraid of choking on her clothes????

Answer 1

There is a sexual undertone to the story. Originally, fairy tales and folk tales were told orally, usually by and to women who were illiterate. The stories were told to entertain, but had a moral as well. The warning imbeded in Little Red Riding Hood involves not to go wandering in the woods by yourself (told at at time when most small towns were surrounded by woods). This would make women and girls sexually vulnerable to predators, and you know "defiled" women were ostracised.

See www.surlalunefairytales.com for all the details.

Answer 2

Ha. Here's the real version written by James Thurber:

"One afternoon a big wolf waited in a dark forest for a little girl to come along carrying a basket of food to her grandmother. Finally a little girl did come along and she was carrying a basket of food. 'Are you carrying that basket to your grandmother?' asked the wolf. The little girl said yes, she was. So she wolf asked her where her grandmother lived and the little girl told him and he disappeared into the wood.

When the little girl opened the door of her grandmother's house she saw that there was somebody in bed with a nightcap and nightgown on. She had approached no nearer than twenty-five feet from the bed when she saw that it was not her grandmother but the wolf, for even in a nightcap a wolf does not look any more like your grandmother than the Metro-Goldwyn lion looks like Calvin Coolidge. So the little girl took an automatic out of her basket and shot the wolf dead.

Moral: It is not so easy to fool little girls nowadays as it used to be."

Answer 3

thanks for that, I loved them both, yet fairly loved your version of Little pink driving Hood tapping the wolf on the shoulder at the same time as he grow to be attempting to have a plop/unload regardless of.

Answer 4

Can't you even leave a little kids story alone? Are you all sick?

Answer 5

gross and defiling to the smallest of things left innocent for children.

Answer 6

Wow, are you serious???