Red Riding Hood

(Art from "The Traditional Faëry Tales of Little Red Riding Hood, Beauty and the Beast, & Jack and the Beanstalk")

### Aliases

Little Red Riding Hood, Red Hood, Crimson Hood, Little Hood, Le Petit Chaperon Rouge, Rotkäppchen, Rose-Red, Ruby Hood

## Relatives

### Parents

Unknown Parents

**Red Riding Hood** was a young child who happened to be one of the many victims of the Big Bad Wolf.

## Appearance

Red Riding Hood is an eleven year old girl with fair skin and long brown hair. Her most recognizable feature is her red hooded cloak, which was made for her by her grandmother. She may also wear a blue apron and white stockings, with little black shoes.

## Personality

Red Riding Hood is a sweet little girl, albeit a bit naive. She is very trusting, trusting even dangerous individuals such as the Big Bad Wolf. Red Riding Hood was loved by all who met her, as she was very kind. She also does not seem to be very vengeful, seeming slightly upset when the Big Bad Wolf was slain for one of the first times, not knowing that it could resurrect.

Red Riding Hood is known to address individuals by nicknames starting with "Mr.". For example, she called a baker "Mr. Baker", a butcher "Mr. Butcher", and even to the point of calling the Big Bad Wolf "Mr. Wolf".

However, as noted before, Red Riding Hood is somewhat naive, and trusting to a fault. In fact, the whole "Big Bad Wold" fiasco could have been avoided if she did not speak to the Wolf.

## History

Once there was a girl called Little Red Riding Hood, for she had never been seen without her favorite red cloak that her grandmother made for her. One day, her mother told her to bring wine and food to her grandmother in the woods, who lived as a wisewoman who would give out medicines to the people who sought her, and was ill, but firmly ordered her to stay strictly on the path and not to talk with any stranger.

On the road, she met a Wolf who wanted to eat the girl and the food in the basket. He asked her where she was going and she eagerly told him she was on the way to her grandma's house to deliver food. Joyous, the Wolf suggested that the girl should pick some flowers as a present for her grandmother, for several bloomed nearby, which Red Riding Hood had not noticed. Realizing this, she went off to collect them. In the meantime, the Big Bad Wolf went to the grandmother's house and gained entry by pretending to be her granddaughter. He then swallowed the grandmother whole and disguised himself as the old woman, waiting for his next meal.

When she remembered about her task, as the rarest flowers bloomed the deepest in the woods, Red Riding Hood hurried off to her grandmother's cottage. She noticed that her grandmother looked very strange. Little Red then said, "What a deep voice you have!" "The better to greet you with", responded the Wolf. "Goodness, what big eyes you have!" "The better to see you with", responded the Wolf. "And what big hands you have!" "The better to embrace you with", responded the Wolf. And lastly, "What big teeth you have!" "The better to eat you with!", responded the Wolf, at which point the Wolf jumped out of the bed and ate her, too. Then he fell asleep on the bed, as it was soft and comfortable, and began to snore.

The Wolf's loud snoring alerted a nearby huntsman. When he entered the home, wondering why the old woman snored so loudly, he didn't find the old woman who he knew lived there, only a giant wolf with a full stomach, dressed in the clothes of an old woman. Quickly, he cut open the sleeping wolf and rescued Little Red Riding and her grandmother, who emerged shaken, but relatively unharmed. While the wolf was still asleep, the three filled the wolf's body with heavy stones and abandoned his body near the river. When the wolf woke up, he startled and fell into the river, which - with the additional weight from the stones - he couldn't swim to the shore and drowned.

## Myths and Legends

Red Riding Hood is a character from the European fairy tale *Little Red Riding Hood*.