After reading several versions of Little Red Riding Hood, I was shocked at how vulgar and corrupted they were. The Little Red Riding Hood and Snow White that I grew up with did not involve a little stripping or a heart and liver being torn out and eaten.
Because I was so repulsed, and because, as I've recently noticed, I enjoy talking about and reflecting on what I've learned, I read some of the more crude versions of Red Riding Hood such as "The Story of Grandmother" to my friends. The ual inuendos in the latter part surprised my friends and several of them were grossed out. The having an "automatic" and her having "two wolfskin coats...[and] a pigskin travelling case" just about blew me away. My circle of friends definitly did not grow up hearing those versions, and we all felt scarred for hearing them. Our children will definitly be learning censored versions of those stories.
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