Little Red Riding Hood | |
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Folk tale | |
Name | Little Red Riding Hood |
Also known as | Little Red |
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Aarne–Thompson grouping | 333 |
Mythology | European |
Origin Date | 17th century |
Related | Peter and the Wolf |
"Little Red Riding Hood" (or "Little Red Cap") is a French fairy tale for young children about a young girl and a wolf. The story comes from a folktale which means that it was a spoken story for a long time before it was a written story. It was first written down in the late 1600s, by Charles Perrault.[1] The best-known version (the way the story is told) is Rotkäppchen by the Brothers Grimm and dates from the 19th century (1800s).