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While we were researching the Cinderella podcast, we came across an interesting...

Parallels slashbacks about another heroine of full tales.

Yes, and her name is Little Red Riding Hood.

Again, listen, you like Cinderella, you like this, and this is just a mini-pid cast.

The origin of the Little Red Riding Hood story not written down just oral traditions passed down are medieval, really.

Around the 14th century in France and Italy, mostly.

Oh, you love those Italian folk tales, don't you back in?

Now, in the early variations, the antagonist that Little Red Riding Hood faces is not always a wolf.

Sometimes, in these stories, they are an ogre, sometimes, which is pretty scary to find in the woods.

I would be frightened, or even more sinister, and more dangerous, I think, in its trickery, sometimes it's a werewolf.

And they used to call them zoos, B-Z-O-U, which is just a funny word.

It is a funny word.

For a scary creature.

That would be a good name.

So typical of some...

Gosh, those full tales of the times gone by were really not very nice to your sensibilities.

No, like the grandma, the wolf leaves as dinner for this Red Riding Hood character.

The grandma's meat.

I mean, what?

Yeah.

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