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I have a weird thing for Little Red Riding Hood.
Blame The Company of Wolves. I saw it at age 14, and have been erotically imprinted on pale girls in dark forests ever since.
The red hood was the invention of Charles Perrault, when he re-wrote French folk-tales as witty little morals for the French aristocracy. In his version, the wolf eats the girl, and that's the end. The Brothers Grimm added the woodsman who rescues her.
But in the earlier folk tales, the girl saves herself. She outwits the wolf, telling him she needs to pee then running away when he lets her go outside.
I stumbled across some fantastic Little Red Riding Hood artwork today, which recasts Red as a wolf-killer. These are by an Australian artist named Ken Wong:
Take a look at Ken Wong's website, too. Lots of beautiful pictures, including a very subtle Alice In Wonderland/The Matrix crossover.
Blame The Company of Wolves. I saw it at age 14, and have been erotically imprinted on pale girls in dark forests ever since.
The red hood was the invention of Charles Perrault, when he re-wrote French folk-tales as witty little morals for the French aristocracy. In his version, the wolf eats the girl, and that's the end. The Brothers Grimm added the woodsman who rescues her.
But in the earlier folk tales, the girl saves herself. She outwits the wolf, telling him she needs to pee then running away when he lets her go outside.
I stumbled across some fantastic Little Red Riding Hood artwork today, which recasts Red as a wolf-killer. These are by an Australian artist named Ken Wong:
Take a look at Ken Wong's website, too. Lots of beautiful pictures, including a very subtle Alice In Wonderland/The Matrix crossover.
