Rotkäppchen

Little Red Riding Hood

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A little girl who always wears the red velvet cap her grandmother gave her is sent by her mother with cake and wine to the sick grandmother in the forest, and told not to leave the path. A wolf meets her, learns where the grandmother lives, and lures her off the path to pick flowers. He runs ahead, swallows the grandmother, puts on her clothes and bonnet and lies in her bed. When the girl comes and wonders at the big ears, eyes, hands and mouth, he swallows her too and falls asleep snoring. A hunter passing by finds the wolf, cuts open his belly with scissors instead of shooting, and the girl and her grandmother come out alive. They fill the wolf with stones, and he falls dead when he tries to run. The girl promises herself never to leave the path again. Another time she keeps to the path when a second wolf speaks to her; he climbs onto the grandmother's roof to wait for her, and the grandmother has the girl fill the stone trough with sausage water, so the wolf leans down after the smell, slides off the roof and drowns.

Retold from Kinder- und Haus-Märchen, Band 1, 7. Auflage (Ausgabe letzter Hand, 1857), KHM 26 by Brüder Grimm (public domain).