Little Red Riding Hood

Little Red Riding Hood
A picture by French illustrator Gustave Doré
Folk tale
Name	Little Red Riding Hood
Also known as	Little Red
Data
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).

1. ↑ Bottigheimer, Ruth. (2008). "Before Contes du temps passe (1697): Charles Perrault's Griselidis, Souhaits and Peau". The Romantic Review, Volume 99, Number 3. pp. 175-189