"Little Red Riding Hood" fairy tale by Charles Perrault.

"Little Red Riding Hood" #the tale of a little girl who meets a wolf. #CharlesPerrot
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The fairy tale was literaryized by Charles Perrault and later recorded by the Grimm brothers.
Some editions retain the moral written by Charles Perrault:
Little children are not without reason
(And especially to maidens,
(And especially to maidens, beauties and dames),
When on their way to meet men of all sorts,
They mustn't listen to the words of a wolf
Or else the wolf will eat them.
I said wolf! There are many wolves,
But among them there are others
There are other wolves so clever
That, sweetly exuding flattery,
They guard a maiden's honor,
They accompany them home on their walks,
and escort them bye-bye through dark alleys...
But the wolf, alas, the more modest he seems,
He's always more sly and frightening!
That version of the tale, which has become a classic in modern children's literature, was recorded a century after Perrault's death by the Grimm brothers.
A good ending was added to the tale: in this version, the woodcutter passing by, hearing the noise, kills the wolf, cuts his belly open and saves the grandmother and Little Red Riding Hood. According to one version this episode was borrowed from another popular German fairy tale "The Wolf and the Seven Little Goats"[8], according to another - from the play "The Life and Death of Little Red Riding Hood", written in 1800 by the German Romantic writer Ludwig Tieck[2].
Perrault's moralizing on the subject of gender relations disappeared from the fairy tale, as well as all sexually colored motifs. In the text of the tale, Little Red Riding Hood violates not propriety, but the will of her mother, who asks her daughter to go to her grandmother without distraction. The moral at the end is introduced as a warning to disobedient children: "Well, now I will never run away from the big road in the forest, I will never disobey my mother's order again".