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The story revolves around a girl called Little Red Riding Hood. ... The girl walks through the woods to deliver food to her sickly grandmother (wine and cake depending on the translation). In the Grimms' version, her mother had ordered her to stay strictly on the path. (Ed "Follow the Yellow Brick Road"?)
A Big Bad Wolf wants to eat the girl and the food in the basket. He asks her where she's going. She says she's going to her grandma to deliver food. He secretly stalks her behind trees, bushes, shrubs, and patches of little and tall grass. He approaches Little Red Riding Hood, who naively tells him where she is going. He suggests that the girl pick some flowers as a present for her grandmother (Ed: De-flowering), which she does. In the meantime, he goes to the grandmother's house and gains entry by pretending to be her. He swallows the grandmother whole ... and waits for the girl, disguised as the grandmother.
When the girl arrives, she notices that her grandmother looks very strange. Little Red then says,
"What a deep voice you have!" ("The better to greet you with", responds the wolf),
"Goodness, what big eyes you have!" ("The better to see you with", responds the wolf),
"And what big hands you have!" ("The better to embrace you with", responds the wolf), and lastly,
"What a big mouth you have" ("The better to eat you with!", responds the wolf), at which point the wolf jumps out of the bed and eats her, too. Then he falls asleep. ...
A woodcutter in the French version, but a hunter in the Brothers Grimm and traditional German versions, comes to the rescue with an axe, and cuts open the sleeping wolf. Little Red Riding Hood and her grandmother emerge shaken, but unharmed. Then they fill the wolf's body with heavy stones. The wolf awakens and attempts to flee, but the stones cause him to collapse and die. In the Grimms' version, the wolf leaves the house and tries to drink out of a well, but the stones in his stomach cause him to fall in and drown (similarly to the story of "The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids"). (Ed: Does this link to Snow White/7 Dwarves too??)
The story displays many similarities to stories from classical Greece and Rome. Scholar Graham Anderson has compared the story to a local legend recounted by Pausanias in which, each year, a virgin girl was offered to a malevolent spirit dressed in the skin of a wolf, who raped the girl. Then, one year, the boxer Euthymos came along, slew the spirit, and married the girl who had been offered as a sacrifice. There are also a number of different stories recounted by Greek authors involving a woman named Pyrrha (literally "fire") and a man with some name meaning "wolf". The Roman poet Horace alludes to a tale in which a male child is rescued alive from the belly of Lamia, an ogress in classical mythology.
The dialogue between the Big Bad Wolf and Little Red Riding Hood has its analogies to the Norse Þrymskviða from the Elder Edda; the giant Þrymr had stolen Mjölnir, Thor's hammer, and demanded Freyja as his bride for its return. Instead, the gods dressed Thor as a bride and sent him. When the giants note Thor's unladylike eyes, eating, and drinking, Loki explains them as Freyja's not having slept, eaten, or drunk, out of longing for the wedding. A parallel to another Norse myth, the chase and eventual murder of the sun goddess by the wolf Sköll, has also been drawn.
It is number 333 in the Aarne–Thompson classification system for folktales.
originally posted by: FlyingFox
a reply to: Charliebrowndog
Earlier tonight I realized my primary grocery store isn't open 24hr since the "pandemic". So in a pinch, if some weird habbenings occurred overnight, I couldn't just dash to the store for a late night supply run.
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The June full moon has many other names that were passed down from Native American tribes as well as expanded by the Farmer’s Almanac. Other names for this lunation are the Blooming Moon (Anishinaabe), Green Corn Moon (Cherokee), Hoer Moon (Western Abenaki), Birth Moon (Tlingit), Egg Laying Moon (Cree), Hatching Moon (Cree), Honey Moon (Europe), or Mead Moon (Europe).
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