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The Symbolic World

419 - Trick or Treat: Halloween Symbolism in Little Red Riding Hood

The Symbolic World

Jonathan Pageau

Education, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality

4.8933 Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Pre-order Little Red Riding Hood and the Big Bad Wolf now and get a free audiobook read by me, as well as an exclusive Q&A: https://store.thesymbolicworld.com/products/the-tale-of-little-red-riding-hood-and-the-big-bad-wolf

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0:00.0

Hello, everyone. It's the Halloween season, and I've talked about Halloween several times. I've talked about monsters several times, and so I was wondering what I could talk about this year, and I figured I could connect this with a surprise that we're going to tell everyone,

0:21.0

is that on October 31, on the day of Halloween,

0:23.8

we are going to launch a new fairy tale, Little Red Riding Hood.

0:28.7

And so we decided to launch it on Halloween

0:31.2

because there is a very strange connection

0:33.7

between Little Red Riding Hood and Halloween. And so I thought that would be a good subject for the video today.

0:41.3

This is Jonathan Peugeot. Welcome to the symbolic world.

0:57.0

We have been teasing it for a while, but now is the official announcements.

1:10.0

We are publishing a version of Little Red Riding Hood, Little Red Riding Hood, and the Big Bad Wolf,

1:15.4

written by me, of course, and illustrated beautifully by Chris Weaver.

1:19.7

It is a very important tale to tell right now and deals with a lot of the issues that we're seeing in our culture.

1:25.9

And so we've also added the symbolism of in the book.

1:29.2

So the fairy tale and the symbolism of is contained in the same book. We're starting the pre-orders

1:34.6

today on Halloween. And all people that pre-order it will get an audiobook version of the book

1:40.1

that I have recorded myself. And the first 1,000 people to order the book will be invited to a special

1:47.0

Q&A, which we will discuss and have fun, and talk about all of the questions surrounding literate

1:53.0

or hidinghood and whatever else you want to talk about.

1:56.0

And so go to store.thesymbolicworld.com and order your book today.

2:01.6

One of the things that characterizes Halloween, of course,

2:05.6

is the trick-or-treating.

2:06.6

This is the aspect that we have preserved the most,

2:09.6

that we know the most.

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