The original versions of Little Red Riding Hood by Charles Perrault and the Grimm brothers were much darker than the modern sanitized version, featuring no warnings, no woodsmen, and no escape—just a girl in red, a basket of butter, and a forest that offered no mercy, reflecting the genuine fears of ancient folklore.
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Most people think they know a little Red Riding Hood. They know a version [music] of it, the story they were told as children.
But there are earlier versions and those [music] end very differently.
I'm James. This is Mythic Tides.
One day her mother sent her into the forest a cake, a small pot of butter, a path through the trees to grandmother's house >> [music] >> in the village beyond the mill. No warnings, no instructions about wolves or woodsmen or the particular dangers of being young and pretty and alone in the dark.
Just a basket, just a girl in red, just the forest. I'm James. Ancient mythology, dark folklore, the creatures people genuinely feared.
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