Little Red Riding Hood

This collection of eight French contes, collected by Charles Perrault in the last decade of the seventeenth century, contains perhaps the most famous fairy stories of all time: ‘Cinderella’, ‘The Sleeping Beauty’, ‘Puss in Boots’, ‘Blue Beard’, and of course, the eponymous ‘Little Red Riding Hood’.

It quickly became the standard version of stories on these themes, was translated into innumerable languages, and then re-entered the oral tradition of most European countries, particularly…