So, I was assigned to read a book about French fairy tales for my college history class, called "The Great Cat Massacre", and I found something interesting.
In eighteenth-century France, peasants would tell the original version of "Little Red Riding Hood", where a girl is told by her mother to bring some bread and milk to her grandmother. As the girl is walking through the forest, a wolf comes up to her and asks where she is going.
"To grandmother's house," she replies.
"Which path are you taking, the path of the pins or the path of the needles?"
"The path of the needles."
So the wolf takes the path she of the pins and arrives first at the house. He kills grandmother, pours her blood into a...
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