Brothers Grimm

The Brothers Grimm (German: Brüder Grimm or Die Gebrüder Grimm), Jacob (1785–1863) and Wilhelm Grimm (1786–1859), were German academics, linguists, cultural researchers, lexicographers and authors who together collected and published folklore. They are among the most well-known storytellers of German folk tales, popularizing stories such as "Cinderella", "The Frog Prince", "Hansel and Gretel" (Hänsel und Gretel), "Rapunzel",, and "Snow White". Their first collection of folk tales,Children's and Household Tales, was published in 1812.

A mother asks her daughter to bring provisions to her grandmother living in the woods. Mom tells her daughter not to talk to strangers, but Little Red disobeys and speaks to a charming stranger, a wolf.

The wolf persuades her to dally in her journey, while he rushes to her grandmother's house. There he swallows grandmother whole before posing as her in an effort to trick Little Red Riding Hood. When she starts to catch on to the ruse, he swallows her whole as well.

Along comes a huntsman, looking to shoot wolves. Finding the wolf asleep in Grandmother's bed, he suspects the wolf may indeed have eaten Grandma and cuts open the wolf's stomach to find out. There he finds both Grandma and Little Red Riding Hood and rescues them before killing the wolf.

This Brothers Grimm version of Little Red Riding Hood doesn't end there. They flash forward to another time when Little Red encounters a wolf, only this time she acts more intelligently. This time she and Grandma conspire to successfully kill this 2nd wolf themselves.

*After reading the Brother Grimm version i can see the darker tone they have created in this version of the story. There is a lot more gore and violence which isn't directly told in the nursery version i grew up with.

But i was good to see what they had changed certain aspect of the story. and as our theme  is the darker side to this story we could maybe use parts of this as inspiration in our version of the story. 

Eniola