Red Riding Hood Wolf Necklace

Nobody saves her in the original

The version everyone knows ends with a woodsman cutting the wolf open. That ending was added later.

In Perrault's telling, published in 1697 and the oldest printed version we have, there is no huntsman and no rescue. The wolf eats her, and the story stops there. It was the Grimms, more than a century afterwards, who added the escape.

And it was never about a wolf

Perrault attached a verse moral making the point explicitly. The wolves worth fearing, he wrote, are not the ones in the forest: they are charming, well-mannered and follow young women home.

It is a warning to girls about men, dressed as an animal story so it could be told at bedtime. Almost every element people find odd about the tale makes sense once you know that.

Wearing the story

Which makes this a better piece than a straightforward fairy tale charm. It carries a story about a woman being warned, and about who the actual predator was.

The piece is the two of them together, a small hooded girl and a wolf up on his hind legs, turned to face each other with her hand linked to his paw by a single ring. Gold or silver tone, small enough to layer with another chain.

See our article on wolf folklore and the wolf jewelry range.

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