Little Red Riding Hood.

This has GOT to be the most edited short story in history. It's hardly surprising that the original was the true inspiration for Merry Melodies' Red Hot Ridinghood.

Originally, LRRH is really not so little (well, she's at least the 'legal age' for 1700s). Her mom sends her out to give her sick grmma a healthy meal of wine & sugary cake, in anothe rit's butter instead of wine, just as healthy). She meets a warewolf in the woods, & blabbermouth that she is, tells him where she's going & how to get htere. He takes the quickest route & beets her there, kills the grandmother, draws her blood into a wine pitcher, cuts her flesh into meat & puts it on a platter (no mention of cooking), puts on the nighty & cap, makes a mask of the old lady's face, & crawls into bed expectantly.

LRRH pops in & the gramma-faced warewolf tells her to eat the flesh & drink the wine, wich she does, & the cat (who appears out of nowhere & can magically talk) calls her a slut (when he should have called her a cannible). Then the warewolf makes her do a strip-tease & tells her to throw them in the fire cuz she won't be needing them. (this would have been a better time for the cat to call her a slut). The girl catches on & does the eyes-nose-mouth bit. In the lame ending to the french tale, she then makes an excuse to leave, & the wolf ties a string to her so she won't run away. Of course she ties the string to a tree & rns off. Lame ending. In a latter pre-Grimm story, there's no cat, but the wolf eats her, & there's no hunter or woodcutter to save her.

That ending always reminds e of the ending to the 3 little pigs. The wolf decides to go down the chimmeny of the brick house & lands in a boiling kettle. The last pig seals him in the kettle & latter eats the wolf that ate his brothers. Both had a wolf & a cannibal.