Little Red Riding Hood


 * This article focuses on the fairytale Red Riding Hood. For the Fairytale Land character, see Red Riding Hood.

Little Red Riding Hood, or Little Red Cap, is a fairytale that is featured in ABC's hit television series Once Upon a Time.

Traditional Plot
Once upon a time, there lived a village girl who was simply known as Little Red Riding Hood, because of her scarlet cloak that she always wore. The child would usually pack a basket of food every week and walk through the woods to deliver the food to her ailing grandmother.

One day, a wolf sees her and is overcome by the urge to eat her. As she is going to deliver the food to her grandmother, the wolf approaches her and asks her where she is going. She tells him, and he suggests that she picks some flowers to brighten her grandmother's day. Little Red Riding Hood does so, and the wolf leaves.

He enters the grandmother's cottage and eats her, stealing her clothes and pretending to be the grandmother. When Little Red Riding Hood arrives at the house, she notices that her grandmother looks much different than how she remembered her. She begins to point out the differences, ending with "My, what big teeth you have!" to which the wolf replies, "The better to eat you with," and swallows her whole.

However, a lumberjack heard Little Red Riding Hood's screams and comes to the rescue. He cuts the wolf open as it slumbers and the girl and her grandmother emerge unharmed. They fill the wolf's body with heavy stones. When it awakens, it attempts to flee, but the weight of the rocks cause him to collapse and die on the spot. Little Red Riding Hood and her family lived happily ever after.

Show Adaptations

 * Red Riding Hood is much older in the show than in the traditional tale, and has a true love named Peter.
 * Red Riding Hood is a werewolf, and thus is her own Big Bad Wolf.

Characters Featured

 * Red Riding Hood
 * Widow Lucas
 * Red Riding Hood's Wolf Form