RED RIDING HOOD by GARAGELAND
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Description
The story revolves around a girl called Little Red Riding Hood, after the red hooded cape/cloak (in Perrault's fairytale) or simple cap (in Grimm's fairytale) she wears. The girl walks through the woods to deliver food to her sick grandmothers cottage.
A wolf wants to eat the girl but is afraid to do so in public. He approaches Little Red Riding Hood and she naively tells him where she is going. He suggests the girl pick some flowers, which she does. In the meantime, he goes to the grandmother's house and gains entry by pretending to be the girl. He swallows the grandmother whole, and waits for the girl, disguised as the grandma.
When the girl arrives, she notices that her grandmother looks very strange. Little Red Riding Hood then says, "What big hands you have!" In most retellings, this colloquy eventually culminates with Little Red Riding Hood saying, "My, what big teeth you have!" to which the wolf replies, "The better to eat you with" and swallows her whole, too.
A hunter, however, comes to the rescue and cuts the wolf open. Little Red Riding Hood and her grandmother emerge unharmed. They fill the wolf's body with heavy stones. The wolf awakens thirsty from his large meal and goes to the well to seek water, where he falls in and drowns. (Sanitized versions of the story have the grandmother shut in the closet instead of eaten, and some have Little Red Riding Hood saved by the hunter as the wolf advances on her, rather than after she is eaten.
The tale makes the clearest contrast between the safe world of the village and the dangers of the forest, conventional antitheses that are essentially medieval, though no written versions are as old as that. The original was supposed to be a warning to young women about the sexual appetites of men (and the wolf-like qualities that they possess)
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Comments (15)
Juliette.Gribnau
the image itself is a fairy-tale !
jayfar
A new meaning for a tree house, I bet they call this 'The Shrubbery'.
durleybeachbum
A nesting paradise.
Feliciti
really like a fairytale !! wonderful this house !!
dakotabluemoon
Wow i love this awesome catch.
debbielove
Is there a house in there.. Fantastic shot... And place! Rob
evinrude
Like Day of the Triffids. Great find!!!
awjay
not good for the house
flora-crassella
a very cute house! GREAT picture!!!!
blondeblurr
That's why young ladies should always walk with their best friend into the woods or not ;-) This really looks like a fairytale cottage, IMO - so mysterious and wicked, BB
photosynthesis
Nice shot of this extreme ivy covered house...
jmb007
jolie maison!!
Rainastorm
Beautiful
jeroni
Fantastic photography
Richardphotos
surely no one is living in this house?the ivy must be inside.when I was working painting the exterior of a large home,I had to do carpentry on a window.when I went inside to move a bed the ivy was along the wall which came right through a crack.the people had not moved the bed in years