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Little Red Riding Hood
Told by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm. Red Riding Hood was called so because of the red velvet cloak she wore wherever she went. One day her mother gave her a basket of goodies
for her grandmother and told her to keep to the path and not stray to the woods while delivering it. She promised she would and set out on her way, but soon a wolf joined her and said her grandmother
surely would appreciate a bouquet of flowers as well, and so was persuaded off the path to pick them. The wolf determined to eat the child went to the grandmother's house and once inside ate the old woman.
When Red Riding Hood finally made it the woman's house she knocked and went inside. She made several exclamations that should have told her something was amiss with her grandmother, but it was too late. The
wolf sprang from his disguise and ate her too. A huntsman came by and recognizing the wolf and his mischief took shears and opened him, out sprang the girl and grandmother. Red Riding Hood then filled his belly with stones
so that the wolf fell dead from the weight, and Red Riding Hood was never fooled again.
Akazukin Chacha
A magical girl series, where the heroine is most notably recognizable by her little red riding cloak and hood that look to be out of the fairy tale.
Jin-Roh the Wolf Brigade
From Chris:
It's a story that takes place in an
alternate timeline after WWII. Basically Japan has a lot of crime
and there's a terrorist oginization and a millitary police. The
terrorist use girls who wear a red hood as bomb courirs and what the
girl said when passing the bomb reminded me of the story little red
riding hood. But then the police called them little red riding hoods
in the story. And within the Millitary police is a secret
organization called the Wolf Brigade. Throughout the whole movie
there are references to Beast intruding on the lives of humans and it
ending badly. The main character is constantly referred to as a
beast. And he and a girl who wears the red hood read the book Little
Red Ridinghood and it is he who reads the part of the wolf. The
version of the little red ridinghood story is one I haven't read but
is simillar to several different ones I've come across. Except it's
the mother not the grandmother who is being impersonated. And in the
version used in the movie Red Ridinghood consumes the flesh and
blood of her dead mother. I think that the juxtiposition of the Red
Ridinghood story on the story of the terrorist and the millitary
policeman is revealing exactly what is really going on in the story.
Perhaps in saying that the man who wouldn't shoot the terrorist girl
in the beginning is really playing a part like the wolf in the story.
Perhaps is is saying that he is really dangerous and luring the
unsuspecting red ridinghood in.
Little Sweet Delusion
By Shunsuke Hasegawa. This is a super short manga tale, only three pages. It's a sort of
mythical-goth-Red Riding Hood-Snow White tale. On page one the
heroine (looking more like Alice in Wonderland to me than the
typical Snow White or Red Riding Hood) goes walking into the forest
with her basket of goodies, though her mother tells her constantly
that this is a dangerous thing to do. She stops in the forest to
share her treats with woodland friends: a fawn with a unicorn horn,
a black cat with bat wings, a rabbit, and fairies (with colorful
smoke coming from the one on the mushroom reminiscent of the
Catepillar in Alice in Wonderland). Meanwhile, the wolf looks on
from the trees. Next, she's eaten by the great wolf and then when
while he lays down for a nap, she cuts her way out.