Little Red Riding Hood

Author unknown- Story of Grandmother

 

In this story, a little girl is sent by her mother with a loaf of bread and bottle of milk to her grandmother. On her journey, the little girl meets the bzou, a werewolf, who quizzes her on where she is going. She chooses her path at the cross roads and meanders along her journey. Meanwhile, the bzou takes a shorter, alternate path, reaches the grandmother’s house before killing her and placing some of her flesh and blood in the pantry.

 

The little girl arrives at her grandmother’s house exclaiming that she has brought some bread and milk. The bzou instructs her to place it in the pantry and eat the meat and wine that is there. As she ate, a little cat said to her “a slut is she that eats the flesh and drinks the blood of her grandmother!”

 

The girl is then instructed by the bzou to undress and sleep beside him but she becomes suspicious, questions the bzou’s fur, claws, shoulders, ears and mouth.

The girl asks to go outside to relieve herself and the bzou reluctantly agrees, but ties a string to her foot. The little girl ties the string to a plum tree outside and escapes before the bzou realises.