Little Red Riding-Hood



Little Red Riding-Hood
a nursery tale in which a little girl bringing a present to her grandmother is devoured by a wolf who has disguised himself in the old lady's ruffled nightcap. The brothers Grimm (two German authors of the early nineteenth century, remembered mostly for their collection of fairy tales) added a happy ending to the tale: a huntsman slits open the wolf and restores the child and her grandmother to life.