Little Red-Cap raised her eyes, and when she saw the sunbeams dancing here and there through the trees, and pretty flowers growing everywhere, she thought, "Suppose I take grandmother a fresh nosegay that would please her too. I must act craftily, so as to catch both." So he walked for a short time by the side of Little Red-Cap, and then he said, "See Little Red-Cap, how pretty the flowers are about here-why do you not look round? I believe, too, that you do not hear how sweetly the little birds are singing you walk gravely along as if you were going to school, while everything else out here in the wood is merry." The wolf thought to himself, "What a tender young creature! what a nice plump mouthful-she will be better to eat than the old woman. "A good quarter of a league farther on in the wood her house stands under the three large oak-trees, the nut-trees are just below you surely must know it," replied Little Red-Cap. "Where does your grandmother live, Little Red-Cap?" "Cake and wine yesterday was baking-day, so poor sick grandmother is to have something good, to make her stronger."
Red-Cap did not know what a wicked creature he was, and was not at all afraid of him. The grandmother lived out in the wood, half a league from the village, and just as Little Red-Cap entered the wood, a wolf met her. "I will take great care," said Little Red-Cap to her mother, and gave her hand on it. Set out before it gets hot, and when you are going, walk nicely and quietly and do not run off the path, or you may fall and break the bottle, and then your grandmother will get nothing and when you go into her room, don't forget to say, 'Good-morning,' and don't peep into every corner before you do it." One day her mother said to her, "Come, Little Red-Cap, here is a piece of cake and a bottle of wine take them to your grandmother, she is ill and weak, and they will do her good. Once she gave her a little cap of red velvet, which suited her so well that she would never wear anything else so she was always called "Little Red-Cap." Original article on LiveScience.Once upon a time there was a dear little girl who was loved by every one who looked at her, but most of all by her grandmother, and there was nothing that she would not have given to the child. 13 in the journal PLOS ONE.įollow Megan Gannon on Twitter and Google+.
This implies that the Chinese version is not derived from literary versions of 'Little Red Riding Hood' but from the older, oral version, with which it shares crucial similarities."
"Interestingly, this tale was first written down by the Chinese poet Huang Zhing, who was a contemporary of Perrault, who first wrote down the European version of 'Little Red Riding Hood' in the 17th century. "Specifically, the Chinese blended together 'Little Red Riding Hood,' 'The Wolf and the Kids' and local folktales to create a new, hybrid story," Tehrani said. The analysis also suggests that the Chinese version of "Little Red Riding Hood" derives from ancient European tales and not vice versa as other researchers have suggested. "The fact that Little Red Riding Hood 'evolved twice' from the same starting point suggests it holds a powerful appeal that attracts our imaginations." "This exemplifies a process biologists call convergent evolution, in which species independently evolve similar adaptations," Tehrani explained in a statement. Tehrani discovered that "Little Red Riding Hood" seems to have descended from the more ancient story "The Wolf and the Kids" - but so did African versions that independently evolved to look like "Little Red Riding Hood." This tree is the result of a Bayesian phylogenetic analysis of 58 tales similar to 'Little Red Riding Hood.' (Image credit: doi:10.1371/003)
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