The story of the real little red riding hood

As we pointed out before, this story finds its origins in an isolated region in the Alps. The
goal of the story is to warn us, to show us that there are forbidden things for our
community as a human race, a community, and a group. In the legend, our
protagonists are an adolescent, a young girl who has just entered the adult world,
as well as her red cap, a symbol for menstruation.
This young girl gets an order from her family: you have to go across a forest to get to take
bread and milk to your grandmother. As you can see, up to this point, the variations with
the original story are not too great, but we have to interpret each gesture and each
image. The forest is danger, a risk zone for young people and one that is rises up
as a test, as the rite of passage for a community, with which to show that a
person’s children have now entered the adult world.
The main risk of this forest comes in the form of the wolf. This animal symbolizes
wildness and the irrational. Something that our Red Riding Hood already knows and that
she must face. The young girl manages to cross the forest and happily enter the
house of her grandma, who receives her in bed because she is sick. All of this is
very similar to our classical story, no doubt, but here come the changes…
The grandma tells the girl to keep the bread and milk and to eat the meat that is prepared
in the kitchen for her. Red Riding Hood agrees and devours it hungrily and feels full. After
this, she obeys her grandma’s next order: she must take off her clothes, piece by piece,
and burn them in the future, then to lie down in bed next to her. The young girl agrees,
curious, but without doubting for a moment, without thinking about how weird the situation
is, because just as she is going to lie down in the bed, she discovers that it is the
wolf who is receiving her between roars of laughter, informing her that the meat
that she has just eaten is her grandmother’s flesh. She has committed a
horrible sin, cannibalism. Later, the wolf devours Little Red Riding Hood