Rewrited Fairy Tales - Little Red Riding Hood

Once upon the time there was a little girl who was living in a little cottage. She was so cute that no one could be cuter. Her mother loved her, and her grandmother adored her.

She had made a little red hood for the girl and that suited her so good that everyone called her Little Red Riding Hood.

One day when her mother had bought some alcohol she said to he daughter:

"I have heard that Granny is ill again. Go to her with this, but don't drink of it, its medicine."

Little Red began to walk across the forest to Granny who lived in another village. And there she met the wolf, who hid in the thicket, spying on some lumberjacks in the woods. He asked her were she was going.

Little Red had heard that one could never trust the wolf, but she got so scared that she told him everything.

"I'm going to Granny"

"Does your Granny lives far away?" the wolf asked.

"Quite…" Little Red replied. "She lives behind the mill that you can see over there; it's the first house in the village.

"Right!" the wolf said. I'll go see her too but I have some things to do first.

The wolf took the short way to Granny and he ran as fast as he could. Little Red took the long way and sometimes she stopped to pick flowers and chase butterflies.

Before Little Red arrived at Granny's she met a boy from school. She told him that she had met the wolf and that he was on his way to Granny. The boy immediately stopped what he was doing and watched her.

"You can't trust a wolf"

"I know… But?"

Little Red felt a little ashamed that she had told the wolf that much.

"You can't trust him because he is a wolf, he will attack your Granny and take her place to eat both of you. He will dress up like her, lay down in her bed when you arrives and then you comes in, you will see her and ask her about her eyes, ears, hands and then you asks him about the teeth and then he attacks you too. One can never trust a wolf".

"BUT I HAVE TO SAVE GRANNY"

Before the boy could stop her, she had run away from him, towards Granny's cottage. He ran over to the hunter's house and told him everything.

"Hurry up, we have to be there before her. Granny isn't at home, she was taken away by ambulance this morning.

The boy was horrified over what he had been told and ran over to Little Red's Granny.

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When the wolf arrived at Granny's house some minutes earlier, the sun was shining so intensive that he had to rest in the shadow for a while.

After some more minutes he walked over to the door and knocked on it. The door was opened but no one was home. He closed the door again and went back to the shadow to wait for Little Red Riding Hood.

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Soon the girl knocked on the door

"GRANNY!!"

No one answered.

Little Red was more terrified then she had ever been before. Why didn't her Granny answer? Was it too late?

"It's little Red, your grandchild. I'm here with a gift from mum."

Shivering she stepped over the threshold.

"Granny can you hear me?"

Still no answer. Little Red began to cry in fear, but she didn't dare to run out. Maybe there was still time to rescue Granny. She crept over to the stairs.

"Granny? GRANNY!"

Sobbing she ran up the rest of the stairs and tore the door open. Something was lying in the bed. But it didn't move and it was much smaller then Granny.

"Granny?"

This time she actually heard a moan. Little Red felt both relieved and not at the same time.

"Granny are you ill? What's wrong? Granny?"

Granny moaned again and little Red run over to the bed and tore the quilt away from it. But it wasn't her Granny who lay in the bed. It was her classmate, the boy she had met earlier in the woods, he was tied up and had a big open wound in his stomach.

Little Red screamed and backed off, and collide with someone, someone who placed his hand over her mouth and forced her down on the floor.

Suddenly she saw her attacker's face in Granny's mirror. The hunter. After only a few seconds he had her tied up and took out his knife.

Little Red closed her eyes so she didn't have to see what he did to her. She really wanted to know what he had done to Granny, but she couldn't ask because of the rag he had tied around her mouth.

Then she heard a low snarl, it was just as load that she would be able to hear it. Was the hunter and the wolf the same being?

She had barely finished this thoughts then she heard the window got broken in the kitchen, in the next second, the door into the bedroom got up and someone attacked the hunter.

Little Red opened her eyes to see who it was that had saved her.

It was the wolf. He had taken a firm grip on the hunter's throat. The hunter tried to free himself but the wolf didn't stop. Finally the man fainted and the wolf walked over to the girl and bite the ropes off.

Little Red cried and gave the wolf a hug. When she had got herself together, she walked over to the boy and examined his wounds while the wolf untied him too. The hunter had stitched the wound for some reason, and the boy seemed drugged.

"What have he done to him?"

Little Red watched the wolf that now cleaned the blood away by licking the wound. He watched the girl and then he ran back to the door.

"Do you want me to follow you?"

The wolf was already down in the kitchen. Little Red hesitated, she had heard so much horrible about the wolf, but after all he had saved her from the hunter. She followed him. The wolf now waited for her in the door. When she came there he run out in the garden. Finally he stopped.

"The well?" Little Red didn't understand. "Is that what you wanted to show me?"

The wolf looked at Little Red and then down in the well. Little Red thought about it for a while and then she undressed and climbed down.

There was something under the water. Little Red was both scared and curious. Her curiosity won.

She dived to see what it was. A child, it had drowned and it had a wound in the stomach, a wound that was about to open itself. She swam up to the surface again to breath and then she dived again, she picked up a sharp stone and started to rip up the wound. There was no blood. She continued cutting and finally she saw what was wrong. Someone had filled the child's stomach with stones.

Coughing she came up to the surface. She had got her mouthful of cold water. Finally she could climb up again. The wolf licked her face until she was alert again, then she began to cry again. But she also decided to do something.

She went back to the boy inside with the wolf close behind. He was unconscious. Little Red took the hunter's knife up and unstitched the wound, took out the stones, and stitched it once again. The wolf licked him until he opened his eyes.

The boy screamed and throw the wolf away. Little Red screamed too, but more in anger then fear.

Then she told boy everything, he got more and more shocked over what he heard. When Little Red finally told him about the children in the well, he started to cry. Little Red cried too, but wiped her tears away.

"What do you think we should do?"

The wolf started to snarl. Then Little Red and the boy noticed that the hunter was about to wake up. Little Red looked around in the room and caught sight of the stone heap. The hunter had presumably planned to put them into her stomach and throw both her and the boy into the well. She shivered. But then she got angry again and turned to the boy and the wolf.

"We need more stones"

"For what?"

"What do you think?"

Little Red opened the hunter's stomach with the knife and placed the stones inside him. The boy gave her the stones she had freed him from and she placed those in the hunter too. Then the wolf showed them a place in the woods where there were a lot of stones.

When there was enough stones, they tried to drag him away to the well but they couldn't move him.

Then they heard a car in the garden and ran out. It was Granny, the doctor and the policeman. The doctor was talking seriously to Granny.

"It's not good to drink this much, you know that!"

"Yeyeyeyeyeye!"

Then Little Red and the boy told the policeman everything they had been through this day, at the same time as the doctor tried to talk to Granny about her drinking.

Later some men from the village came and took a total twelve children out of the well. The judge came too and he decided the hunter should die, and as he already was full of stones they decided that no one wanted to clean the axe afterwards. After all, it was Sunday. So they just throw him into the well and let him drown.

And about the wolf. Little Red wanted to keep him, and as she was so cute that no one could be cuter, there was no one who could say no.

A/N When a feminist came to my school and spoke about his/her (I don't remember) theory that fairy tales were only to tell children how they should be if they were boys or girls, I suddenly got an idea. I would rewrite the fairy tales. Why is every princess beautiful and every witch evil for example?

I quitted listening to the lecturer and thought about this idea, which I started to like… I wanted to do this. And I decided that my first commission would be to change the Wolf's character in Little Red, from the villain to the hero… Then someone told me to pay attention…

Next Fairy tale to be rewrote is: The Fisherman and his Wife