Little Red Riding Hood | Related Tales

The following tales are similar to the Little Red Riding Hood fairy tale, AT-333. I have included the English language tales of this type which have been gathered by title by D. L. Ashliman in his A Guide to Folktales in the English Language. Sometimes I include tales of other classifications when I deem them relevant to the theme. The tales come from many cultures and are similar to the Little Red Riding Hood story in various ways. I have placed the tales in alphabetical order with bibliographic information and links to texts of the stories if a text is available on the internet.




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This tale is AT-333.

An English language version is available in:

Randolph, Vance. Sticks in the Knapsack Other Ozark Folk Tales. New York: Columbia University Press, 1958.

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This tale is AT-333.

An English language version is available in:

Massignon, Genevieve, ed. Folktales of France. Jacqueline Hyland, translator. Folktales of the World. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1968.

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This tale is AT-333.

An English language version is available in:

Calvino, Italo. Italian Folktales. George Martin, translator. New York: Pantheon Books, 1980.
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This tale is AT-333.

An English language version is available in:

Briggs, Katherine M., ed. A Dictionary of British Folk-Tales in the English Language. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1970, 1971.

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This tale is AT-333.

An English language version is available in:

Seki, Keigo. Folktales of Japan. Robert J. Adams, translator. Folktales of the World. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1963.

A web version of this tale is available at The Grandmother (French).

This tale is AT-333.

An English language version is available in:

Delarue, Paul, ed. The Borzoi Book of French Folk Tales. Austin E. Fife, translator. New York: Alfred E. Knopf, 1956.
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This tale is AT-333.

An English language version is available in:

Botkin, B. A. A Treasury of American Folklore: Stories, Ballads, and Traditions of the People. New York: Crown, 1944.

A web version of this tale is the one annotated on this site at The Annotated Little Red Riding Hood.

This tale is AT-333.

An English language version is available in:

Opie, Iona and Peter. The Classic Fairy Tales. New York: Oxford University Press, 1974.
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Thompson, Stith, ed. One Hundred Favorite Folktales. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1974.
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Lang, Andrew, ed. "Little Red Riding Hood." The Blue Fairy Book. New York: Dover, 1965. (Original published 1889.)
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A web version of this tale is available at Little Red Cap.

Also see D. L. Ashliman's Little Red Cap.

This tale is AT-333.

An English language version is available in:

Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm. The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm. Jack Zipes, translator. New York: Bantam, 1987.
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A web version of this tale is available at D. L. Ashliman's Little Red Hat.

This tale is AT-333.

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Ashliman's Source: Christian Schneller, Märchen und Sagen aus Wälschtirol: Ein Beitrag zur deutschen Sagenkunde (Innsbruck: Verlag der Wagner'schen Universitäts-Buchhandlung, 1867), no. 6, pp. 9-10. The Italian title of this story is "El cappelin rosso."

A web version of this tale is available at Little Red Hood.

This tale is AT-333.

An English language version is available in:

Wratislaw, A. H. Sixty Folk-Tales from Exclusively Slavonic Sources.Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1890.

A web version of this tale is available at The True History of Little Goldenhood.

This tale is AT-333.

An English language version is available in:

Lang, Andrew, ed. The Red Fairy Book. New York: Dover, 1966. (Original published 1890.)
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A web version of this tale does not exist due to copyright restrictions.

This tale is AT-333.

An English language version is available in:

Calvino, Italo. Italian Folktales. George Martin, translator. New York: Pantheon Books, 1980.
Amazon.com: Buy the book in hardcover or paperback.







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