Little Red Riding Hood has been rewritten too many times to count. Not only has is made excellent reading for children, but certain rewrites are more for the adult reader. Other versions have been adapted into films, such as Red Riding Hood starring Amanda Seyfried and the animated movie Hoodwinked. For me one of the most notable rewrites is small and relatively in significant.
All my life I have watched the hit TV show Charmed, and in one episode the three sisters, Piper, Phoebe, and Paige, have a run-in with fairytales. Piper, the oldest, tries to find the wicked witch but instead finds a red cloak hanging from a branch; she then realizes how far off the beaten path she is. She immediately returns home; and soon after gets eaten by the wolf. However, unlike many of the written stories, she is not cut out of the stomach by a passing woodsman or left to die inside the wolf’s belly. In this story, she finds her own way out of the tummy.
This story has always stuck with not just because of my love of the show but also because Piper as “Red Riding Hood” found her own way out, showing that not everyone needs a big, strong man to come save her.
In the below clips of "Charmed" the Little Red Riding Hood tale begins around 6:06. Unfortunately the conclusion, where Piper uses her exploding power to escape is not featured.
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