History Literature / LittleRedRidingHood

A {{Homage}} to this story appears in the song "Hey Little Red Riding Hood" which makes the wolf out as a would-be suitor rather than a vicious animal wanting to consume her for food. This may be closer to the original version of the story, which some scholars believe to be a tale of seduction, with the red cape symbolizing menstruation, and therefore fertility. This hits the ''slight'' problem that Perrault introduced the red cape. In the original folktales, no mention was made of any particular article of clothing, let alone its color.

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[[caption-width-right:272:''Who's afraid of the big bad wolf?''[[note]]Image from [[http://www.deviantart.com/art/Little-Red-Riding-Hood-81798342 here]].[[/note]]]]

* {{Bowdlerise}}: In some versions for children, the grandmother is not eaten by the wolf, but rather locked in the cupboard by the wolf. The same versions will usually have Little Red Riding Hood saved by a huntsman or woodcutter as the wolf is about to eat the girl.

A list of adaptations of the story (loosely or closely) can be found on its [[DerivativeWorks/LittleRedRidingHood Derivative Works page]].

!!Adaptations or retellings of this fairytale include: [[note]]Versions that only borrow certain elements of the story are RedRidingHoodReplica.[[/note]]

* ''Film/TheCompanyOfWolves''
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Hoodwinked}}'' (a parody of the story)
** ''WesternAnimation/HoodwinkedTooHoodVersusEvil''
* ''WesternAnimation/LittleRedRidingRabbit''
* ''Theatre/RedTheRedRidingHoodMusical'' (a 2000 stage musical about the fairy tale, and the different variants of it that exist.)
* ''Film/RedRidingHood'' (2011 film)
* ''My Melody no Akazukin'' (A 1989 [=OVA=] adaptation by Creator/{{Sanrio}} starring My Melody. Originally screened at three theater roads shows in Japan and was part of ''Sanrio Anime Festival'') [[note]] My Melody actually started out as the company's version of "Little Red Riding Hood" before becoming its own thing in 1976. Sanrio later did another animated adaptation of the story starring My Melody for the 1999 [=OVA=] series ''[[Franchise/HelloKitty Hello Kitty's Animation Theater]]''.[[/note]]
* ''VideoGame/TheDarkSideOfRedRidingHood'' lets players re-enact the story with some added {{Grimmification}}.
* ''VideoGame/ThePath''
* ''VideoGame/TheLittleRedLie''
* ''VideoGame/OnceEverAfter'' is a lewd HGame retelling... mixed in with several other different versions of the story all clashing together.
* ''VideoGame/LittleRedMemories''

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