E07 · Charles Perrault

Little Red Riding Hood

In Perrault’s telling, no hunter comes to save her.

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Little Red Riding Hood — Dark Fairytales

Scheduled · Dec 11, 2026

A girl tells a wolf where her grandmother lives. He arrives first. This reading follows Perrault’s story and its warning about the wolves who speak gently.

Scheduled for Dec 11, 2026. New tales every Friday: video at 4:00 PM ET, podcast at 9:00 PM ET.

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Text & translation

Old-Time Stories (1921), translated by Alfred Edwin Johnson; moral based on The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault (1922). Public domain source editions, with light language edits. Read the source edition ↗

Source of Perrault’s moral ↗