WEBVTT 00:00:34.250 --> 00:00:36.289 Alright everybody, welcome back. This is Food 00:00:36.289 --> 00:00:38.549 for Thought. Thoughts if it were you. This is 00:00:38.549 --> 00:00:42.850 Neogentrics, your host. I'm going to do another 00:00:42.850 --> 00:00:48.149 one of my dark truth reveals for those childhood 00:00:48.149 --> 00:00:50.969 stories that we used to love listening to that 00:00:50.969 --> 00:00:53.829 we thought were all great and dandy. Now, keep 00:00:53.829 --> 00:00:55.929 in mind, this whole premise for this channel 00:00:55.929 --> 00:00:58.289 is education. And again, if what I'm telling 00:00:58.289 --> 00:00:59.950 you seems like it could be something that you 00:00:59.950 --> 00:01:02.750 don't want to hear, by all means, don't listen 00:01:02.750 --> 00:01:05.519 to it. Okay, just skip this one, go on to the 00:01:05.519 --> 00:01:08.299 next episode and, you know, enjoy the rest of 00:01:08.299 --> 00:01:10.700 your day. And I'm not going to stay on the same 00:01:10.700 --> 00:01:12.400 topic. I'm going to switch back and forth and 00:01:12.400 --> 00:01:14.760 come back to other topics because different people 00:01:14.760 --> 00:01:16.120 have different things that they want to hear 00:01:16.120 --> 00:01:19.299 or listen to. And not everybody wants to have 00:01:19.299 --> 00:01:22.060 their childhood ruined by knowing the original 00:01:22.060 --> 00:01:25.599 story version of the fairy tale that they loved. 00:01:26.019 --> 00:01:28.500 Okay, keeping with that theme, though, for this 00:01:28.500 --> 00:01:31.060 episode here, you know, I already explained. 00:01:31.629 --> 00:01:33.769 Fairy tales are full of creepy and terrible things. 00:01:34.030 --> 00:01:37.430 And the original Little Red Riding Hood is no 00:01:37.430 --> 00:01:41.829 exception. Cinderella's stepsisters... Well, 00:01:42.010 --> 00:01:44.569 I haven't covered Cinderella yet. Or the Little 00:01:44.569 --> 00:01:48.909 Mermaid. So, look forward to those in the future. 00:01:49.189 --> 00:01:53.670 Okay? Even more popular collections from fairy 00:01:53.670 --> 00:01:56.730 tales like Brothers Grimm include stories like 00:01:56.730 --> 00:01:59.489 The Girl Without Hands and The Death of the Little... 00:01:59.870 --> 00:02:02.909 But, I mean, I'll cover those at another point. 00:02:03.170 --> 00:02:05.310 But the Brothers Grimm are known for writing 00:02:05.310 --> 00:02:08.530 pretty dark stories. And Little Red Riding Hood 00:02:08.530 --> 00:02:12.129 is the full story as a whole is actually pretty 00:02:12.129 --> 00:02:14.129 dark. Unlike the modern version where a naive 00:02:14.129 --> 00:02:19.729 and trusting girl, in a nutshell, more or less, 00:02:19.770 --> 00:02:22.610 who can't tell the difference between a wolf 00:02:22.610 --> 00:02:24.870 and her grandmother escapes in the end. In the 00:02:24.870 --> 00:02:27.469 much older version, she doesn't. She's actually 00:02:27.469 --> 00:02:31.250 eaten alive. Um, that's only the beginning of 00:02:31.250 --> 00:02:33.129 the horrible things that actually happened in 00:02:33.129 --> 00:02:35.110 the Little Red Riding Hood series, uh, story. 00:02:35.610 --> 00:02:37.969 And, you know, the versions circulated in the 00:02:37.969 --> 00:02:41.710 17th century France. Uh, Charles Parlett, uh, 00:02:41.889 --> 00:02:43.849 first wrote down the story in his collections 00:02:43.849 --> 00:02:46.909 called the Mother Goose Tales. It featured a 00:02:46.909 --> 00:02:50.300 cannibalistic granddaughter. and a pedophile 00:02:50.300 --> 00:02:53.060 wolf who tells Red to strip down before she climbs 00:02:53.060 --> 00:02:56.360 into his bed. No wonder the fairy tale was originally 00:02:56.360 --> 00:03:00.360 changed, actually. You know, it's supposed to 00:03:00.360 --> 00:03:02.319 be for children, after all, and there's nothing 00:03:02.319 --> 00:03:05.080 child -friendly about that. So, we're going to 00:03:05.080 --> 00:03:07.000 take a short break right quick, and then I'm 00:03:07.000 --> 00:03:09.620 going to go diving headfirst into this story, 00:03:09.780 --> 00:03:12.159 the original version that hasn't been told in 00:03:12.159 --> 00:03:51.909 centuries. Stick around. Alright, so let's begin. 00:03:52.389 --> 00:03:55.849 Like I said before, Little Red Riding Hood never 00:03:55.849 --> 00:03:58.610 used to really have a happy ending. At least 00:03:58.610 --> 00:04:02.069 in the original versions, it didn't. And a long 00:04:02.069 --> 00:04:03.889 time ago, it wasn't even written down, so it 00:04:03.889 --> 00:04:06.810 was a folktale told by people for centuries. 00:04:07.930 --> 00:04:13.150 Anthropologist Jamie Tirani argues that the fairy 00:04:13.150 --> 00:04:15.530 tale was not invented by the French writer Charles 00:04:15.530 --> 00:04:18.550 Perrault, the author of the Mother Goose Tales. 00:04:20.970 --> 00:04:24.610 and the first person who wrote it down. Historian 00:04:24.610 --> 00:04:27.750 Robert Darnton explains that Peralt's stories 00:04:27.750 --> 00:04:31.769 came from the oral tradition, most likely through 00:04:31.769 --> 00:04:34.689 his son's nurse, which is kind of where the whole 00:04:34.689 --> 00:04:37.670 nursery rhymes thing came from, where he borrowed 00:04:37.670 --> 00:04:41.110 the name Mother Goose. But, anyway, the story 00:04:41.110 --> 00:04:43.050 of Little Red Riding Hood had a much deeper root. 00:04:43.949 --> 00:04:46.050 It went through a number of versions. Even after 00:04:46.050 --> 00:04:48.449 Peralt's French version, the story spread to 00:04:48.449 --> 00:04:51.160 Germany and England and carried It was even carried 00:04:51.160 --> 00:04:55.240 by French refugees of the wars of religion and 00:04:55.240 --> 00:04:59.279 later conflicts until the Brothers Grimm finally 00:04:59.279 --> 00:05:02.240 wrote it down in the 19th century. In fact, the 00:05:02.240 --> 00:05:04.660 story of the girl wearing red who wanders off 00:05:04.660 --> 00:05:08.339 and runs into a wolf dates back at least to the 00:05:08.339 --> 00:05:11.680 11th century when a Belgian poet recorded the 00:05:11.680 --> 00:05:15.120 tale. The long history of the story includes 00:05:16.879 --> 00:05:18.939 A number of changes that transformed it from 00:05:18.939 --> 00:05:21.199 a disturbing tale of cannibalism and pedophilia, 00:05:21.240 --> 00:05:24.180 like I mentioned before, to a much more friendly, 00:05:24.259 --> 00:05:26.459 childer version that we hear today, and that 00:05:26.459 --> 00:05:29.579 version actually has a happy ending. Keeping 00:05:29.579 --> 00:05:31.360 this in mind, though, in some versions of the 00:05:31.360 --> 00:05:34.079 story, there is no Little Red Riding Hood. Okay? 00:05:35.199 --> 00:05:38.240 One of the defining features of Little Red Riding 00:05:38.240 --> 00:05:41.379 Hood is her red hood. It appears in nearly every 00:05:41.379 --> 00:05:44.800 image of the story produced in the... last 200 00:05:44.800 --> 00:05:47.879 years, I do believe. But in some of the versions 00:05:47.879 --> 00:05:49.899 of the story, the little girl didn't actually 00:05:49.899 --> 00:05:53.199 wear a red hood at all. One folk version told 00:05:53.199 --> 00:05:56.240 in the 17th and 18th century, France, described 00:05:56.240 --> 00:05:58.500 the main character as simply just a little girl. 00:05:58.779 --> 00:06:01.279 In other versions, the hood is made from gold. 00:06:02.220 --> 00:06:03.879 Actually, that would have been a really interesting 00:06:03.879 --> 00:06:07.720 version of the story to hear. The red hood doesn't 00:06:07.720 --> 00:06:11.829 appear until the 17th century, however. So the 00:06:11.829 --> 00:06:17.329 question stands right now. Where did the famous 00:06:17.329 --> 00:06:21.129 hood come from? I'll be honest with you. It's 00:06:21.129 --> 00:06:24.029 most likely it was invented by the original mother 00:06:24.029 --> 00:06:26.490 goose, Charles Peral. I mean, in his version, 00:06:26.529 --> 00:06:28.790 which was first published in, I think, 1967, 00:06:29.389 --> 00:06:33.290 the girl's mother had a little red riding hood 00:06:33.290 --> 00:06:36.810 made for her as products. you know explained 00:06:36.810 --> 00:06:39.490 and it suits the girl so extremely well that 00:06:39.490 --> 00:06:41.970 everyone called her little red riding hood after 00:06:41.970 --> 00:06:47.170 all uh it just seemed to work and after that 00:06:47.170 --> 00:06:50.470 it just kind of stuck you know once the red hood 00:06:50.470 --> 00:06:52.970 appeared though you know people claimed it symbolized 00:06:52.970 --> 00:06:58.410 the coming of age or sin however you want to 00:06:58.410 --> 00:07:02.329 look at it uh the red hood made its first appearance 00:07:02.329 --> 00:07:05.569 in perrault's version but was such a popular 00:07:05.569 --> 00:07:07.910 detail that it came to define the story as a 00:07:07.910 --> 00:07:11.629 whole. In fact, much has been made of the red 00:07:11.629 --> 00:07:16.350 color. Psychoanalyst Eric Fromm, he claimed that 00:07:16.350 --> 00:07:20.870 the red hood was a symbol of menstruation. Man, 00:07:20.910 --> 00:07:23.750 I hate saying that word. Turning the tale into 00:07:23.750 --> 00:07:27.089 a morality lesson for young girls who might quote 00:07:27.089 --> 00:07:31.439 unquote stray from the path. You know, putting 00:07:31.439 --> 00:07:33.819 their honor at risk, if you know what I mean. 00:07:34.860 --> 00:07:38.079 The wolf, in Fromm's version, becomes a seducer 00:07:38.079 --> 00:07:42.779 of young girls. Introducing the wolf pedophile. 00:07:43.879 --> 00:07:47.040 The red was a color associated with sin. When 00:07:47.040 --> 00:07:49.839 Perrault first wrote the fairy tale in the 1990s, 00:07:49.839 --> 00:07:52.579 he actually wrote it down. It was still folklore 00:07:52.579 --> 00:07:55.759 before then. And many folklorists pointed out 00:07:55.759 --> 00:07:58.519 that the red color was often a symbol that the 00:07:58.519 --> 00:08:02.019 girl was coming of age. Linking it to menstruation, 00:08:02.139 --> 00:08:06.160 when the wolf tricks Little Red Riding Hood and 00:08:06.160 --> 00:08:10.019 eats her up, the message is clear. Become aware 00:08:10.019 --> 00:08:13.939 of predators, or better, beware of predators, 00:08:14.160 --> 00:08:16.420 is the best way to put it, who want to take advantage 00:08:16.420 --> 00:08:19.720 of young girls. And there's a twisted part of 00:08:19.720 --> 00:08:24.920 the earlier French versions that really drives 00:08:24.920 --> 00:08:28.620 the point home. I mean, it's something that a 00:08:28.620 --> 00:08:31.680 lot of people don't, really want to hear. I mean, 00:08:31.699 --> 00:08:35.419 even in the child -friendly version today, in 00:08:35.419 --> 00:08:37.620 one version she escapes, and in one version she 00:08:37.620 --> 00:08:40.039 gets eaten by the wolf. It makes perfect sense. 00:08:40.340 --> 00:08:42.879 You know, be aware of your actions. Be aware 00:08:42.879 --> 00:08:46.620 of pedophiles. Be aware of creepy people. And, 00:08:46.720 --> 00:08:49.200 you know, that stood as the child -friendly version 00:08:49.200 --> 00:08:53.740 up until now. At least in the last five to ten 00:08:53.740 --> 00:08:56.529 years, though, that has changed. the girl getting 00:08:56.529 --> 00:08:59.350 eaten has been seen as too violent, so they've 00:08:59.350 --> 00:09:03.450 dumbed it down to the girl escapes safely. But 00:09:03.450 --> 00:09:05.250 then a lot of things have changed over the years. 00:09:06.629 --> 00:09:09.090 Let's take a short break here, and we'll be right 00:09:09.090 --> 00:09:39.789 back. right everybody now that we're back let's 00:09:39.789 --> 00:09:42.769 go in a little deeper into the story okay so 00:09:42.769 --> 00:09:45.110 in the original version like i mentioned before 00:09:45.110 --> 00:09:48.509 the wolf makes red strip and climbing the bed 00:09:48.509 --> 00:09:52.330 with him wow and before i go any further that 00:09:52.330 --> 00:09:56.009 does sound a little dark doesn't it well the 00:09:56.009 --> 00:09:58.049 original version of little red riding hood gets 00:09:58.049 --> 00:10:01.409 very quick uh creepy very quickly actually the 00:10:01.409 --> 00:10:03.549 little girl is at her grandmother's house and 00:10:05.259 --> 00:10:08.000 You know, where the wolf has disguised himself 00:10:08.000 --> 00:10:11.779 as basically her grandmother. The wolf asks Red 00:10:11.779 --> 00:10:14.840 to strip her clothes off. In the story, the wolf 00:10:14.840 --> 00:10:18.159 says, Undress and get into bed with me. More 00:10:18.159 --> 00:10:23.220 or less. When Red asks, What do I do with her 00:10:23.220 --> 00:10:25.679 apron? Well, that's the original translation. 00:10:26.220 --> 00:10:28.960 The wolf says, Throw it on the fire. You won't 00:10:28.960 --> 00:10:33.049 need it anymore. After Red tosses her apron into 00:10:33.049 --> 00:10:35.610 the fire, the wolf also makes her take off her, 00:10:35.669 --> 00:10:38.610 you know, skirt, petticoat, stockings, and everything 00:10:38.610 --> 00:10:42.029 else. With each item of clothing, the wolf says, 00:10:42.129 --> 00:10:44.029 throw it into the fire, you won't need it anymore. 00:10:44.490 --> 00:10:46.990 You know, and once she takes off her clothes, 00:10:47.110 --> 00:10:49.769 Red climbs into bed with the wolf. That's when 00:10:49.769 --> 00:10:51.490 she notices that something's not right with her 00:10:51.490 --> 00:10:55.009 grandmother. And then we get into the part where, 00:10:55.110 --> 00:10:58.049 oh, grandmother, how hairy you are, she declares. 00:10:58.250 --> 00:10:59.990 You know, and in today's version of the fairy 00:10:59.990 --> 00:11:02.700 tale, Little Red Riding Hood definitely doesn't, 00:11:02.700 --> 00:11:05.600 you know, get naked, obviously, but it's still 00:11:05.600 --> 00:11:07.940 the same scenario when she realizes something's 00:11:07.940 --> 00:11:12.600 wrong with her grandmother. The next part where 00:11:12.600 --> 00:11:17.840 this gets a little gruesome is a little bit before 00:11:17.840 --> 00:11:20.539 that. Before Red climbs into the bed with the 00:11:20.539 --> 00:11:23.539 wolf in the older version of the story, the wolf 00:11:23.539 --> 00:11:26.159 sneaks into the, after the wolf had snuck into 00:11:26.159 --> 00:11:28.039 the grandmother's house, he kills and butchers 00:11:28.039 --> 00:11:31.789 the elderly woman, okay? Then he pours her blood 00:11:31.789 --> 00:11:34.370 into a bottle, slices up her flesh on a platter. 00:11:34.850 --> 00:11:37.450 And if that wasn't bloody enough, when Little 00:11:37.450 --> 00:11:39.649 Red Riding Hood shows up, the story quickly turns 00:11:39.649 --> 00:11:44.950 into a tale of cannibalism. When Red hands over 00:11:44.950 --> 00:11:47.950 the bread and milk to the wolf, he says, Have 00:11:47.950 --> 00:11:50.950 something yourself, my dear. This is meat and 00:11:50.950 --> 00:11:55.929 wine in the pantry. He points to the blood and 00:11:55.929 --> 00:11:58.990 the flesh of her grandmother. And Red eats the 00:11:58.990 --> 00:12:03.779 snack. And a little cat whispers, slut, to eat 00:12:03.779 --> 00:12:05.919 the flesh and drink the blood of your grandmother. 00:12:07.440 --> 00:12:11.720 Irony. There are some strange parallels here 00:12:11.720 --> 00:12:15.820 with the religious tradition of taking the Eucharist, 00:12:15.820 --> 00:12:18.120 you know, the blood and body of Christ here. 00:12:18.179 --> 00:12:21.440 It's a little play on the biblical story. However, 00:12:21.639 --> 00:12:24.480 you know, for obvious reasons, the cannibalism 00:12:24.480 --> 00:12:27.320 was obviously omitted in later versions of the 00:12:27.320 --> 00:12:33.320 story. pretentious reasons. One is the parallelism 00:12:33.320 --> 00:12:36.039 with the Bible, and the other is the whole cannibalistic 00:12:36.039 --> 00:12:39.000 thing in the first place. It's not exactly child 00:12:39.000 --> 00:12:43.500 -friendly. But you can see how dark the original 00:12:43.500 --> 00:12:47.539 story originally had gotten. Now, like I mentioned 00:12:47.539 --> 00:12:49.720 before, it didn't always have a happy ending. 00:12:49.820 --> 00:12:52.179 However, Little Red Riding Hood does escape in 00:12:52.179 --> 00:12:57.879 one version using some what they call poop humor. 00:12:59.289 --> 00:13:02.129 That's the nice way to put it. In most versions 00:13:02.129 --> 00:13:04.190 of Little Red Riding Hood, the girl never figures 00:13:04.190 --> 00:13:06.610 out the wolf's disguise, which is kind of surprising 00:13:06.610 --> 00:13:08.850 since most people would recognize a wolf wearing 00:13:08.850 --> 00:13:12.429 a nightdress pretty readily. Perhaps Red didn't 00:13:12.429 --> 00:13:15.730 have the best eyesight, I'm assuming. But in 00:13:15.730 --> 00:13:17.990 one version, Red manages to escape from the wolf's 00:13:17.990 --> 00:13:20.730 trap. She climbs into bed with the wolf. She 00:13:20.730 --> 00:13:23.169 notices that it isn't her grandmotherly, uh, 00:13:23.289 --> 00:13:26.909 exactly. Red makes up a lie to leave the bed. 00:13:27.029 --> 00:13:29.909 She says that she has to poop and does what doesn't 00:13:29.909 --> 00:13:32.549 want to do it in the grandmother's bed. The wolf 00:13:32.549 --> 00:13:35.889 then lets Red leave for the woods, but he ties 00:13:35.889 --> 00:13:39.149 a piece of string to her so that she can't escape. 00:13:39.529 --> 00:13:42.210 Well, in this version, the girl tricks the wolf 00:13:42.210 --> 00:13:46.590 by slipping the string over a branch and running 00:13:46.590 --> 00:13:51.149 away. Very clever thinking in this version, you 00:13:51.149 --> 00:13:53.429 know. it still doesn't change the fact that you 00:13:53.429 --> 00:13:55.850 know everything else before it had happened but 00:13:55.850 --> 00:13:58.149 in this version she doesn't die or get eaten 00:13:58.149 --> 00:14:02.909 but it's still the wolf is a pedophile even in 00:14:02.909 --> 00:14:04.710 the mother goose version you know the grandmother 00:14:04.710 --> 00:14:08.590 gets eaten so there's no really escaping that 00:14:08.590 --> 00:14:14.309 uh in the mother goose version it's less gruesome 00:14:14.309 --> 00:14:17.370 and many of the than most of the original folktales 00:14:17.370 --> 00:14:19.669 as we've already covered for example red doesn't 00:14:19.919 --> 00:14:22.039 eat her grandmother obviously and there's not 00:14:22.039 --> 00:14:23.720 a long description of her taking off her clothes 00:14:23.720 --> 00:14:25.840 or throwing it into the fire though it does say 00:14:25.840 --> 00:14:27.860 red took off her clothes before climbing into 00:14:27.860 --> 00:14:31.519 bed with the wolf which can be interpreted as 00:14:31.519 --> 00:14:34.419 something totally different altogether but the 00:14:34.419 --> 00:14:36.120 mother goose version still maintains some of 00:14:36.120 --> 00:14:37.960 the darker elements of the folk tale for example 00:14:37.960 --> 00:14:39.980 when the wolf snuck into the grandmother's house 00:14:39.980 --> 00:14:42.100 he immediately fell upon the good woman ate her 00:14:42.100 --> 00:14:45.679 up at the moment uh in that moment for it had 00:14:45.679 --> 00:14:47.799 been more than three days since he had eaten 00:14:47.799 --> 00:14:50.139 and after all if the moral of the story is to 00:14:50.139 --> 00:14:52.480 watch out for predators the grandmother was just 00:14:52.480 --> 00:14:54.899 as guilty as red since she was also tricked by 00:14:54.899 --> 00:14:59.879 the wolf i mean you know that's pretty much the 00:14:59.879 --> 00:15:03.840 the gist of that and in the mother goose version 00:15:03.840 --> 00:15:06.159 along with that it doesn't have a happy ending 00:15:06.159 --> 00:15:09.639 just so you know um in addition to the grandmother's 00:15:09.639 --> 00:15:13.840 death in the mother goose's version uh It doesn't 00:15:13.840 --> 00:15:16.059 end well for Red either. The girl is tricked 00:15:16.059 --> 00:15:17.980 into climbing into bed with the wolf, and the 00:15:17.980 --> 00:15:20.460 two have their famous dialogue. I'm not going 00:15:20.460 --> 00:15:23.399 to go into that whole thing again. You know, 00:15:23.440 --> 00:15:25.259 grandmother, what big arms you have, so on and 00:15:25.259 --> 00:15:27.940 so forth. And finally, Red says, grandmother, 00:15:28.200 --> 00:15:30.580 what big teeth you have. And at this point, the 00:15:30.580 --> 00:15:33.200 wolf says, all the better to eat you with, at 00:15:33.200 --> 00:15:35.580 which point he jumps on top of Red and eats her. 00:15:35.679 --> 00:15:37.220 And this is the end of the story in the Mother 00:15:37.220 --> 00:15:39.799 Goose collection. There's no friendly woodsman 00:15:39.799 --> 00:15:42.539 or anything to rescue Little Red Riding Hood. 00:15:43.809 --> 00:15:50.730 Throwing that out there. I'll take a short break 00:15:50.730 --> 00:16:11.450 here and then we'll continue. All right. Well, 00:16:11.570 --> 00:16:16.320 let's dive back into this. The next bit is the 00:16:16.320 --> 00:16:19.279 moral lesson for the Mother Goose version anyway. 00:16:19.399 --> 00:16:24.000 It's actually pretty heavy. A little dark. Forgive 00:16:24.000 --> 00:16:27.279 me for saying this. It's actually all about virginity. 00:16:28.340 --> 00:16:31.539 I'm laughing, but it isn't funny. I promise you. 00:16:32.620 --> 00:16:35.059 At the end of the Mother Goose version of Little 00:16:35.059 --> 00:16:37.500 Red Riding Hood, the Charles Perrault version 00:16:37.500 --> 00:16:41.299 included a moral. Just in case, you know, children 00:16:41.299 --> 00:16:42.960 didn't pick up on the message in the story, he 00:16:42.960 --> 00:16:45.320 writes, children, especially attractive, well 00:16:45.320 --> 00:16:48.100 -bred young ladies, should never talk to strangers 00:16:48.100 --> 00:16:52.179 for they, you know, they should do so. They may 00:16:52.179 --> 00:16:58.740 well provide dinner for a wolf. Just in case 00:16:58.740 --> 00:17:01.379 his wolf analogy goes over the children's head, 00:17:01.519 --> 00:17:06.109 Proff also adds, I say, wolf. But there are various 00:17:06.109 --> 00:17:09.849 kinds of wolves. There are also those who are 00:17:09.849 --> 00:17:13.289 charming, quiet, polite, unassuming, complacent, 00:17:13.289 --> 00:17:16.809 and sweet, who pursue young women at home and 00:17:16.809 --> 00:17:19.930 in the streets. Reading between the lines, Perrault 00:17:19.930 --> 00:17:22.490 warns girls that wolves might appear like gentle 00:17:22.490 --> 00:17:26.190 grandmothers, even if their intentions are bad. 00:17:27.269 --> 00:17:29.369 Perrault concludes by saying, unfortunately, 00:17:29.789 --> 00:17:33.089 it is these gentle wolves who are also the most 00:17:33.089 --> 00:17:35.559 dangerous ones of all. Moral lesson for young 00:17:35.559 --> 00:17:39.519 ladies is very clear. Guard yourself and your 00:17:39.519 --> 00:17:42.119 virginity against predators who want to take 00:17:42.119 --> 00:17:46.119 advantage. Ironic, isn't it? However, in the 00:17:46.119 --> 00:17:48.900 Brothers Grimm version, Red fills the wolf's 00:17:48.900 --> 00:17:53.759 wide open innards with rocks. I'm not going to 00:17:53.759 --> 00:17:57.599 try to translate that, but for the most part. 00:17:58.299 --> 00:18:00.819 One of the most familiar versions of the Little 00:18:00.819 --> 00:18:03.440 Red Riding Hood version story comes from the 00:18:03.440 --> 00:18:07.059 Brothers Grimm. And in the 19th century, even 00:18:07.059 --> 00:18:10.599 their ending, which saves Red and their grandmother, 00:18:10.799 --> 00:18:14.299 was a strange twist. The Brothers Grimm introduced 00:18:14.299 --> 00:18:18.000 the Huntsman, who saves the day right after Little 00:18:18.000 --> 00:18:20.960 Red Riding Hood, or Little Red Cap, as she was 00:18:20.960 --> 00:18:23.240 known in their version, is eaten by the wolf. 00:18:24.299 --> 00:18:27.440 The Huntsman finds the wolf sleeping after his... 00:18:27.720 --> 00:18:30.180 big meal and cuts open his belly with a pair 00:18:30.180 --> 00:18:34.039 of scissors then again he is a huntsman so i 00:18:34.039 --> 00:18:36.980 guess that kind of makes sense uh the girl and 00:18:36.980 --> 00:18:39.859 her grandmother you know leap out of the wolf 00:18:39.859 --> 00:18:44.019 with red crying oh i was so frightened it was 00:18:44.019 --> 00:18:48.660 so dark inside the wolf's body which sounds kind 00:18:48.660 --> 00:18:50.480 of weird now that i've said that out loud but 00:18:50.480 --> 00:18:53.940 uh you know then red takes over filling the wolf's 00:18:53.940 --> 00:18:57.000 body with large stones The wolf apparently sleeps 00:18:57.000 --> 00:18:59.799 through this entire process, but when he wakes 00:18:59.799 --> 00:19:03.759 up and tries to run away, the stones are so heavy 00:19:03.759 --> 00:19:08.160 that he falls down dead. Actually seems even 00:19:08.160 --> 00:19:10.980 more brutal than the girls getting eaten. It's 00:19:10.980 --> 00:19:14.019 not quite stripping or cannibalistic, but it 00:19:14.019 --> 00:19:16.859 is still a dark twist on the original fairy tale 00:19:16.859 --> 00:19:21.099 in comparison, because someone still dies in 00:19:21.099 --> 00:19:23.440 this version. And believe it or not, there was 00:19:23.440 --> 00:19:25.559 even a sequel in the Brothers Grimm version where, 00:19:25.680 --> 00:19:29.140 you know, Red gets her revenge. In case you're 00:19:29.140 --> 00:19:31.119 wondering why the movie Hoodwink and Hoodwink 00:19:31.119 --> 00:19:34.839 2 exist. The Brothers Grimm also wrote the sequel. 00:19:36.579 --> 00:19:38.720 Red teams up with the grandmother to kill another 00:19:38.720 --> 00:19:42.039 wolf. And in this first fairy tale version, Red 00:19:42.039 --> 00:19:45.539 encounters a wolf in the forest, or woods. And 00:19:45.539 --> 00:19:50.289 by this time, she ignores him. When the wolf 00:19:50.289 --> 00:19:52.089 tries to break into the grandmother's house, 00:19:52.289 --> 00:19:55.309 the grandmother doesn't let him in. Both have 00:19:55.309 --> 00:19:58.190 learned their lesson from the first time, when 00:19:58.190 --> 00:20:01.809 they were eaten by the wolf. In the sequel, Red 00:20:01.809 --> 00:20:04.210 and her grandmother lure the wolf into the chimney 00:20:04.210 --> 00:20:08.490 with the smell of sausages. In the hearth, you 00:20:08.490 --> 00:20:13.599 know, or... place a large tub of water for uh 00:20:13.599 --> 00:20:17.000 from cooking the sausages the wolf falls in and 00:20:17.000 --> 00:20:19.980 drowns and then red rejoices along with her grandmother 00:20:19.980 --> 00:20:26.160 having killed the wolf and you know that definitely 00:20:26.160 --> 00:20:28.039 doesn't sound any better than the previous versions 00:20:28.039 --> 00:20:31.940 but you know you can easily they just how do 00:20:31.940 --> 00:20:34.000 i put it in this version of the story they both 00:20:34.000 --> 00:20:35.960 get their revenge they didn't exactly kill the 00:20:35.960 --> 00:20:39.839 original wolf but they killed a wolf That tried 00:20:39.839 --> 00:20:42.519 to do the same thing again. And it made them 00:20:42.519 --> 00:20:45.960 feel better. You know. Fairy tales are like PSAs 00:20:45.960 --> 00:20:50.539 from the past. You know. For the most part. You 00:20:50.539 --> 00:20:54.500 know. It's hard to imagine children listening 00:20:54.500 --> 00:20:57.200 to older versions of the Little Red Riding Hood 00:20:57.200 --> 00:20:59.640 story. After all, today we don't generally encourage 00:20:59.640 --> 00:21:01.640 children to eat their grandmothers, obviously, 00:21:01.819 --> 00:21:04.759 but Perrault's 17th century moral to the story 00:21:04.759 --> 00:21:06.660 is a reminder that fairy tales were originally 00:21:06.660 --> 00:21:08.960 meant to educate children about real dangers, 00:21:09.160 --> 00:21:12.599 not just wolves, but others who wanted to take 00:21:12.599 --> 00:21:14.440 advantage of young girls, tricking them to strip 00:21:14.440 --> 00:21:17.740 and climb into bed, which sounds really bad. 00:21:18.759 --> 00:21:21.019 In a sense, though, Little Red Riding Hood and 00:21:21.019 --> 00:21:22.980 other... You know, fairy tales were the medieval 00:21:22.980 --> 00:21:26.440 equivalent of the more -you -know PSAs theme 00:21:26.440 --> 00:21:29.700 that we have now. The strange variations in Little 00:21:29.700 --> 00:21:32.079 Red Riding Hood are a reminder that fairy tales 00:21:32.079 --> 00:21:34.339 are created and recreated in particular times 00:21:34.339 --> 00:21:37.380 and places, and Charles Perrault's 17th century 00:21:37.380 --> 00:21:40.480 French version is different from the 19th century 00:21:40.480 --> 00:21:42.799 German version, which was then popularized by 00:21:42.799 --> 00:21:45.279 the Brothers Grimm that we all know today, or 00:21:45.279 --> 00:21:47.849 at least a variation of it. The fairy tale communicates 00:21:47.849 --> 00:21:50.769 specific messages that are linked with those 00:21:50.769 --> 00:21:53.569 cultures in some ways. Other versions of Little 00:21:53.569 --> 00:21:55.890 Red Riding Hood are windows into the past, and 00:21:55.890 --> 00:21:59.529 it's those same windows that we cherish nowadays, 00:21:59.930 --> 00:22:03.710 or at least become aware of. This is the type 00:22:03.710 --> 00:22:05.470 of thing that we should be teaching our children, 00:22:05.589 --> 00:22:07.970 instead of sheltering them from everything that 00:22:07.970 --> 00:22:12.829 we think is disgusting or creepy or weird. These 00:22:12.829 --> 00:22:14.349 are things that people used to teach their kids 00:22:14.349 --> 00:22:21.259 in the past, and they were normal. So, with that, 00:22:21.259 --> 00:22:27.259 it brings this very creepy story to an end, and 00:22:27.259 --> 00:22:30.579 I hope you learned something from it as far as 00:22:30.579 --> 00:22:32.460 the different variations of the story, but actually 00:22:32.460 --> 00:22:34.259 the morals that were originally designed to go 00:22:34.259 --> 00:22:37.880 with this story. This is also one of those times 00:22:37.880 --> 00:22:42.859 where, you know, I have to say, for once in my 00:22:42.859 --> 00:22:46.069 life, it's a... It's a story I didn't exactly 00:22:46.069 --> 00:22:48.029 want to bring to light, but I feel like it's 00:22:48.029 --> 00:22:50.609 needed to be told. So, with that being said, 00:22:50.690 --> 00:22:52.910 again, this is food for thought. Thoughts if 00:22:52.910 --> 00:22:54.750 it were you. This is your host, Neogentrix. I 00:22:54.750 --> 00:22:57.849 hope you all enjoyed this episode of Dark Truths 00:22:57.849 --> 00:23:00.750 Behind Original Fairytale Stories. Next time, 00:23:00.750 --> 00:23:02.910 I'm going to cover a different story, or maybe 00:23:02.910 --> 00:23:05.009 something totally different altogether. Stick 00:23:05.009 --> 00:23:07.289 around to find out. I hope you enjoy the rest 00:23:07.289 --> 00:23:08.829 of your day. Peace!