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«Little Red Riding Hood»
«La Petit Chaperon Rouge»

Little Red Riding Hood, also known as Little Red Cap, is a French fairy tale about a young girl and a Big Bad Wolf. The story has been changed considerably in its history and subject to numerous modern adaptations and readings.

The earliest known printed version was known as Le Petit Chaperon Rouge and had its origins in 17th century French folklore. It was included in the collection Tales and Stories of the Past with Morals. Tales of Mother Goose, in 1697, by Charles Perrault. As the title implies, this version is both more sinister and more overtly moralized than the later ones. The redness of the hood, which has been given symbolic significance in many interpretations of the tale, was a detail introduced by Perrault. The story had as its subject an "attractive, well-bred young lady", a village girl of the country being deceived into giving a wolf she encountered the information he needed to find her grandmother's house successfully and eat the old woman while at the same time avoiding being noticed by woodcutters working in the nearby forest. Then he proceeded to lay a trap for the Red Riding Hood. The latter ends up being asked to climb into the bed before being eaten by the wolf, where the story ends. The wolf emerges the victor of the encounter and there is no happy ending

Equatorial Guinea, 1979, Little Red Hood

Great Britain, 1994, Little Red Riding Hood

Greece, 2008, Little Red Riding Hood

Guernsey, 1994, Building blocks

Guyana, 2001, Little Red Riding Hood

Hungary, 1959, Little Red Riding Hood

Jersey, 2005, Little Red Riding Hood

Monaco, 1978, Little Red Riding Hood

Netherlands, 1964, Little Red Riding Hood

Poland, 1968, Little Red Riding Hood

Rumania, 2010, Little Ridding Hood

San-Marino, 2004, Little Red Riding Hood

St. Helena Island, 2000, Little Red Riding Hood

Syria, 1976, Little Red Riding Hood

Great Britain, 1994.02.01, Wolfsdale. Little red Riding Hood

Greece, 2008.12.15, Athens. Little Red Riding Hood

USSR, 1984, Characters of childrens book