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    The Virgin And The Werewolf: The Legend Of Red Riding Hood
    The Virgin And The Werewolf: The Legend Of Red Riding Hood
    The Virgin And The Werewolf: The Legend Of Red Riding Hood
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    The Virgin And The Werewolf: The Legend Of Red Riding Hood

    By Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm and Charles Perrault

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    The folktale of Red Riding Hood has its origins in tales from various European countries, of which several still exist, some significantly different from the better-known Perrault and Grimms versions. It was told by French peasants in the 10th century, and also in Italy in the 14th century, engendering a number of versions, including "La Finta Nonna", often with elements of cannibalism, scatology, and nudity. Later Germanic variants were most likely inspired by the 16th century "werewolf-trials of Peter Stumpp and others. This special ebook collection of texts relating to the Red Riding Hood legend starts with "La Finta Nonna", and then features the two most well-known latterday versions: "Le Petit Chaperon Rouge" ("Little Red Riding Hood') by Charles Perrault (1697), and "Rotkappchen" ("Little Red Cap') by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm (1812). Elements of this story are similar to those in the Grimms' tale "Der Wolf Und Die Sieben Geißlein" ("The Wolf And The Seven Young Kids'), which is also included for comparison. This collection also includes "Little Red Hood", the Slavonic version retold and analysed by A.H. Wratislaw (1890); plus a special bonus text: "The Damnable Life And Death of Peter Stumpp", by George Bores, a graphic true account of lycanthropy, cannibalism and black magic written in 1590. With a cover illustration by Arthur Rackham.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherElektron Ebooks
    Release dateMar 4, 2015
    ISBN9781908694959
    The Virgin And The Werewolf: The Legend Of Red Riding Hood

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    • 3/5
      I really like this book because it is a very popular story and classic. There are endless variations of this story but this is one of the first printed versions of the story and I really enjoyed it. This was a french version of little red riding hood. This story was written in French so I was not able to read the words but from my background knowledge of the story and the illustrations, I was still able to understand the story. The characters are believable and imaginative. The illustrations definitely enhanced and supported the story. The pictures were descriptive and realistic to the story. Since I was not able to understand the language the book was written in, it was clear that the illustrations enhances the story. The big idea of the book is that righteousness and goodness prevail over evil.
    • 3/5
      Perrault's version ends with the wolf eating Red Riding Hood. No woodman comes to her rescue.
    • 4/5
      Summary: Little Red Riding Hood is about a girl whose mother maded her a red hood to wear. She took a liking to it so well that everyone called her Red Riding Hood. Her grandmother is sick so Little Red's mother tells her to take some food to her grandmother. A wolf spots her leaving and follows her and asks her where she is going. She tells him which house her grandmother will be in and the wolf tells her he is going to take a different path and try to see which is faster. The wolf sped to the grandmothers home, ate her and waited for Little Red Riding Hood. When she arrived, the wolf disguised his voice and told her to open the latch and come in, when she got into bed with her "grandmother", who was the wolf in disguise, the wolf eats her too. The last page of the book is a picture of the wolf sleeping with Little Red Riding Hood in his stomach and a hunter with a gun in the doorway.Personal Reaction: I was not a fan of this book at all. It was kind of messed up and wrong! Especially considering there was a picture with the wolf holding Red and her head had disappeared in the wolf's mouth. This is definitely not a book I would recommend for children. I am a fan of other versions of the book, the ones that shelter children more. Classroom Extension: The only thing I could see this book useful for, would be the foreshadowing at the end of the book. You can imply that the hunter is going to kill the sleeping wolf, or that the hunter will be eaten eventually by the wolf because the hunter is not facing the wolf completely.
    • 1/5
      A dark version of the classic tale of Little Red Riding Hood. Has pictures instead of illustrations but only on every other page. I wouldn't recommend reading it to young children because I think it might give them nightmares.
    • 5/5
      Published by Creative Editions, this is definitely not a children's picture book. The photography is amazing and tells the story as it was before publishers cleaned it up for children: creepily sexual.
    • 1/5
      OK WHAT IS THIS?THIS IS SO DISGUSTING !I HATE IT!

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    The Virgin And The Werewolf - Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm

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    THE VIRGIN AND THE WEREWOLF

    BY PERRAULT, BROTHERS GRIMM, & OTHERS

    AN EBOOK

    ISBN 978-1-908694-95-9

    PUBLISHED BY ELEKTRON EBOOKS

    COPYRIGHT 2013 ELEKTRON EBOOKS

    www.elektron-ebooks.com

    No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a database or retrieval system, posted on any internet site, or transmitted, in any form, or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the copyright holders. Any such copyright infringement of this publication may result in civil prosecution

    FOREWORD

    The folktale of Little Red Riding Hood has its origins in versions of similar tales from various European countries preceding the 17th century, of which several exist, some significantly different from the better-known Perrault and Grimms versions. It was told by French peasants in the 10th century, relates to De Puella A Lupellis Servata (The Young Girl Saved From Wolves) by Egbert de Liège (c.1023), and flourished in 14th century Italy in a number of versions, including La Finta Nonna (The False Grandmother). Later Germanic variants were most likely inspired by the 16th century werewolf trials of Peter Stumpp and others.

    These early variations of the tale differ from the currently known version in several ways. The antagonist is not always a wolf, but sometimes an ogre or werewolf. The monster kills the grandmother, then leaves portions of her blood and meat for the girl to eat, so that unwittingly cannibalizes her own grandmother. Furthermore, the wolf was also known to ask her to remove her clothing and toss it into the fire, adding to the more adult nature of these primitive versions. In some variants, the wolf eats the girl after she gets into bed with him, and the story ends there. In others, she sees through his disguise and tries to escape, complaining to her grandmother that she needs to defecate and would not wish to do so in the bed. The wolf reluctantly lets her go, tied to a piece of string so she does not get away. However, the girl slips the string over a phallic subsitute and runs off. In these stories she escapes with no help from any male or older female figure, instead using her own cunning. Sometimes, though more rarely, the red hood is even non-existent.

    The symbolism behind the story has been analysed in numerous ways. George William Cox, in Comparative Mythology (1883), postulated that Red Riding Hood represented the evening with her scarlet robe of twilight, who is swallowed up by the wolf of darkness and is saved by the rising sun. But A.H.

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