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| By Willowynn |
I have wanted to make a series of dolls based on fairy stories and on favourite literary people for a while. I have started with my most favoured character, Red Ring Hood. It is not so much the story that grabs me as the images created by the story.
There are some wonderful interpretations of her character and I have been collecting other peoples doll ideas on Pinterest. There are so many and if you want to take a look it is at 'https://uk.pinterest.com/carolbarwell/little-red-riding-hood/' There are 427 pins to date and growing!
The story of Red Riding Hood has origins as far back as the tenth century, one of the earliest is The False Grandmother or La Finta Nonna. Charles Perrault's version is the one more commonly known and is the first version to include the red hood, his version is known as Le Petit Chaperon Rouge is from the 17th century. In it there is no happy ending as Red Riding Hood climbs into bed with the wolf and is eaten. The first version to include the hunter or the woodsman is The Brothers Grimm story in their collection Kinder- und Hausmärchen (Children's and Household Tales (1812). The story as called Rotkäppchen and is very similar to Perrault's version except the huntsman save the day.
There seem to be versions of this tale from all over the world, even a tale called The Grandaunt Tiger from China. The big bad wolf is sometimes a giant or an ogre even a werewolf in some versions but the moral is still the same, if you are well brought up maiden don't trust a stranger you meet in the woods!
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| Becca Thorne |
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| Alan Dart |
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| Magpie and the Wardrobe
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