European Folk Tale Variant: Red

Anna Boyer

Cooper

CRW212

February 27, 2013

European Folk Tale Variant: Red

In a bizarre turn of events, a young girl, roughly thirteen years of age, has come forth with an otherworldly tale. The girl, hereafter known as “Red” to protect her youthful identity, claims to have been approached by a wolf in the dark, mysterious Black Forest who later followed her to her Grandmother’s charming woodland cottage. In a disturbing twist, the creature devoured the Grandmother in a fit of animal instinct. As if living out a twisted fantasy, the wolf donned the woman’s lacy, floor length nightgown after consuming her flesh and promptly hopped in the bed to await the arrival of another treat.

 Red revealed to this reporter that the woods are full of dark things and that she feels as though her personhood was compromised. Uninvited advances will do that to a person. That dastardly forest dweller is not currently available to comment on the meaty meal that turned Red’s world upside down.

Yes, Red has hair the color of a carrot basking in the glow of the setting sun, which must have provoked that poor wolf something fierce. But she was simply delivering nourishment to her sick Grandmother. The sickness could not have been any worse than getting eaten by a thing as repugnant as a wolf. Was there something about the sensuality of food combined with the red hair that stimulated some kind of perverse sexual desire in that furry monster? This is the kind of society we are living in, folks. More details as they come in.