The Big Bad Wolf is a fictional wolf appearing in several cautionary tales , including some of Grimms' Fairy Tales . Versions of this character have appeared in numerous works, and it has become a generic archetype of a menacing predatory antagonist .
100-426: " Little Red Riding Hood ", " The Three Little Pigs ", " The Wolf and the Seven Young Kids ", " The Boy Who Cried Wolf " and the Russian tale Peter and the Wolf , reflect the theme of the ravening wolf and of the creature released unharmed from its belly , but the general theme of restoration is very old. The dialogue between the wolf and Little Red Riding Hood has its analogies to the Norse Þrymskviða from
200-513: A Latte ), Dave Redl ( Web Premiere Toons ), John DiMaggio ( Tom and Jerry: Robin Hood and His Merry Mouse ) and Stephen Stanton ( The Tom and Jerry Show ). The Avery Wolf's actual name has varied over time. It was seldom given in the 1940s, but a 1945 studio announcement called him Wally Wolf . In modern-day appearances, the Wolf's name is often given as Slick Wolf or McWolf . The Avery Wolf
300-499: A cold. He was baking a cake for his grandmother's birthday and the wolf had to travel to the little pigs' houses to borrow a cup of sugar. Each time the pigs turned him away, Alexander T. Wolf's cold caused him to huff and puff and sneeze a great sneeze whereupon the wolf would accidentally destroy the pig's house. Finding the inhabitant deceased, the Alexander T. Wolf decided to eat the body so as not to let good meat go to waste, since
400-440: A demand for new Big Bad Wolf comics arose. From 1945, the original WDC&S series Li'l Bad Wolf nominally starred Big Bad Wolf's good little cub, but "Pop" repeatedly stole the spotlight. Carl Buettner, Gil Turner and Jack Bradbury were among the noted creators to work on the series in its early years, with Buettner giving Big Bad Wolf his proper name of Zeke (1946) and Turner supplying his middle name of Midas (1949). In
500-639: A game of Polo between four of Disney's animated characters (one of whom was the Wolf) and four animated caricatures of noted film actors. He also appeared in Mickey's Christmas Carol , dressed as a streetcorner Santa Claus at the beginning of the featurette. The Wolf made a couple of brief cameo appearances in Who Framed Roger Rabbit , first hiding behind a lamppost in Toontown, and later at
600-505: A lie. The machine's punishment grows harsher and harsher the more he lies, until it is finally spinning him around, smacking his head and scrubbing his bottom. When he finally tells the truth, he is shot away by a rocket stuck up his shirt. The Big Bad Wolf also made appearances in other Disney cartoons. In Toby Tortoise Returns , Practical and the Wolf made cameo appearances during the boxing match between Toby Tortoise and Max Hare. The Wolf also appeared in Mickey's Polo Team , as part of
700-621: A number of giant-size specials and a series of one-page text stories in Donald Duck . Li'l Bad Wolf's only comic strip appearance was in the Disney Christmas Story for 1963, "Three Little Pigs Christmas Story". This sequence was drawn by Floyd Gottfredson , who reinstated Li'l Wolf's sharp teeth. From 2003 to 2008, reflecting a trend initiated in European Disney comics, Zeke Wolf increasingly often featured as
800-502: A number of versions exist, including La finta nonna (The False Grandmother), written among others by Italo Calvino in the Italian Folktales collection. It has also been called "The Story of Grandmother". It is also possible that this early tale has roots in very similar East Asian tales (e.g. "Grandaunt Tiger"). These early variations of the tale do differ from the currently known version in several ways. The antagonist
900-611: A previous matriarchal era). The girl, leaving home, enters a liminal state and by going through the acts of the tale, is transformed into an adult woman by the act of coming out of the wolf's stomach. Bruno Bettelheim , in The Uses of Enchantment : The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales (1976), recast the Little Red Riding Hood motif in terms of classic Freudian analysis, that shows how fairy tales educate, support, and liberate children's emotions. The motif of
1000-474: A prison line-up along with other Disney criminals, and in "CasaBonkers" where Katya tosses him out of his car so she can go after Bonkers. The Big Bad Wolf has been a recurring character in House of Mouse , where he is voiced by Jim Cummings . His first appearance on this show featured him as a jazz artist called "Big Bad Wolf Daddy" (a parody of Big Bad Voodoo Daddy ), performing a swing version of his song with
1100-401: A ruse to go outside and fetch some food for her aunt. Aunt Tiger, suspicious of the girl, ties a rope to her leg. The girl ties a bucket to the rope to fool her, but Aunt Tiger realizes this and chases after her, whereupon she climbs into a tree. The girl tells the tigress that she will let her eat her, but first, she would like to feed her some fruit from the tree. The tigress comes closer to eat
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#17327944305061200-421: A significance from the dawn to blood. A sexual analysis of the tale may also include negative connotations in terms of rape or abduction. In Against Our Will , Susan Brownmiller describes the fairy tale as allegory of rape. Many revisionist versions focus on empowerment and depict Little Red Riding Hood or the grandmother successfully defending herself against the wolf. Such tellings bear some similarity to
1300-423: A spanking. When Practical tells his brothers "Remember, this hurts me worse than it does you!", the lie detector ends up interpreting what he just said as a lie and gives him a spanking as well, much to his chagrin at iris out. The Silly Symphony Sunday comic strip ran a three-month-long adaptation of The Practical Pig from May 1 to August 7, 1938. The Film Daily wrote: "The musical effects here heighten
1400-530: A top hat, red pants, green suspenders and white gloves. However, he does not wear a shirt or shoes. The Wolf has a taste for disguising himself, but both the audience and the Practical Pig can easily see through the Wolf's disguises. With each successive short, the Wolf exhibits a fondness for dressing in drag and, even "seduces" Fiddler and Fifer Pigs, who become increasingly clueless as to his disguises with each installment, with such disguises as "Goldilocks
1500-538: A variant called "The True History of Little Goldenhood" in The Red Fairy Book (1890). He derived it from the works of Charles Marelles, in Contes of Charles Marelles . This version explicitly states that the story had been mistold earlier. The girl is saved, but not by the huntsman; when the wolf tries to eat her, its mouth is burned by the golden hood she wears, which is enchanted. James N. Barker wrote
1600-592: A variant with a male protagonist in his report of the Ibo people . An Iranian variant, featuring a little boy and the disrobing motif, appears in a 20th-century French anthology. Geneviève Massignon recorded a variant called "Boudin-Boudine" from an informant in Le Gué-de-Velluire . In this version, a little boy is protected from the wolf by his grandmother and father. Apart from the overt warning about talking to strangers, there are many interpretations of
1700-489: A variation of Little Red Riding Hood in 1827 as an approximately 1000-word story. It was later reprinted in 1858 in a book of collected stories edited by William E Burton, called the Cyclopedia of Wit and Humor . The reprint also features a wood engraving of a clothed wolf on a bended knee holding Little Red Riding Hood's hand. Jack Zipes anthologized several 19th century variants. Northcote Whitridge Thomas included
1800-498: A well-known song by the modern singer Idir , " A Vava Inouva ": I beseech you, open the door for me, father. Jingle your bracelets, oh my daughter Ghriba. I'm afraid of the monster in the forest, father. I, too, am afraid, oh my daughter Ghriba. The theme of the ravening wolf and of the creature released unharmed from its belly is also reflected in the Russian tale " Peter and the Wolf " and another Grimm tale " The Wolf and
1900-507: Is a Silly Symphony cartoon. It was released on February 24, 1939, and was directed by Dick Rickard. It was the fourth and final cartoon starring The Three Pigs . Like its predecessors, The Practical Pig incorporates the song " Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf? ". Unlike its predecessors however, its title cards labeled it as a standalone Three Little Pigs cartoon, suggesting that they were to get their own series of cartoons. It
2000-512: Is a central character in the episode "The Big Good Wolf", where Mickey tries to reform him, but while characters are found that can help him be good, he ends up devouring them one by one, until Mickey manages to rescue them from his stomach. As a walkaround costumed character, Big Bad Wolf appears at the Walt Disney Parks and Resorts for meet-and-greets, parades and shows. In the video game Magical Tetris Challenge , Big Bad Wolf
2100-404: Is a fictional character from Walt Disney 's cartoon short Three Little Pigs , directed by Burt Gillett and first released on May 27, 1933. The Wolf's voice was provided by Billy Bletcher. As in the folktale, he was a cunning and threatening menace. The short also introduced the Wolf's theme song, " Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf? ", written by Frank Churchill . The Wolf is shown as wearing
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#17327944305062200-450: Is a little different than original: he usually wears an all-blue clothing but white gloves; and his son follows the same pattern of his father clothes, but he uses red instead of blue. Li'l Bad Wolf (or just Li'l Wolf as referred to by his friends) is Zeke "Big Bad" Wolf's son. In spite of his name, Li'l Bad Wolf wants to be a good little wolf ; badness is really the domain of his father. Zeke wants his son to be just as bad as he is, but
2300-488: Is also the second-to-last Silly Symphony cartoon. Practical Pig is hard at work building a new anti-wolf contraption, this time a lie detector . His two brothers, Fiddler and Fifer Pig decide to go swimming, despite Practical's warning about the Big Bad Wolf lurking by the pond. The Big Bad Wolf disguises as a mermaid to lure Fiddler and Fifer and captures them and bringing them to an old windmill where his sons
2400-429: Is mostly used for a comedic effect. The story as told by Alexander T. Wolf from The Three Little Pigs suggests that wolves may not necessarily have to be "Big" and "Bad", but are perhaps misunderstood because what they eat happens to be cute. It should be inferred, however, that the following story given by Alexander T. Wolf is merely a fiction made up to conceal his guilt. Alexander T. Wolf, portrayed as rather civil, had
2500-408: Is not always a wolf, but sometimes a 'bzou' ( werewolf ), making these tales relevant to the werewolf trials (similar to witch trials) of the time (e.g. the trial of Peter Stumpp ). The wolf usually leaves the grandmother's blood and flesh for the girl to eat, who then unwittingly cannibalizes her own grandmother. Furthermore, the wolf was also known to ask her to remove her clothing and toss it into
2600-499: Is one of Pete 's henchmen, along with a Weasel and is the boss the player fights before Pete, the final boss. His levels theme seems to be a disco remix, with him wearing a purple top hat with a matching tailcoat, white dress shirt, red bow tie, purple trousers and brown Oxfords . The Big Bad Wolf also appeared in The Kingdom Keepers series, in the fourth book, "Power Play", where he appeared non anthropomorphized. In
2700-622: The Elder Edda ; the giant Þrymr had stolen Mjölner , Thor 's hammer, and demanded Freyja as his bride for its return. Instead, the gods dressed Thor as a bride and sent him. When the giants note Thor's unladylike eyes, eating, and drinking, Loki explains them as Freyja not having slept, or eaten, or drunk, out of longing for the wedding. 19th-century Folklorists and cultural anthropologists such as P. Saintyves and Edward Burnett Tylor saw Little Red Riding Hood in terms of solar myths and other naturally occurring cycles, stating that
2800-574: The Three Little Wolves are waiting for their dinner, but tells them they must not eat until he captures Practical. The Wolf plans to entrap Practical as well using a fake letter requesting help by his brothers. While the wolf is off to capture Practical, the Three Little Wolves start early to put the two pigs into a pan and prepare to bake them into a pie . The Wolf, disguised as a messenger boy, blows his cover when he blows
2900-411: The guitar very well and ride the powerful rocker motorbike , making his character more sophisticated than a normal hooligan. In the first episode, while climbing a high building to catch Hare, Wolf whistles the popular mountaineer song, "Song of a Friend" (the signature song of Vladimir Vysotsky ). In spite of these talents, most of Wolf's schemes eventually fail or turn against him. The character
3000-494: The "animal bridegroom" tales, such as Beauty and the Beast or The Frog Prince , but where the heroines of those tales revert the hero to a prince, these tellings of Little Red Riding Hood reveal to the heroine that she has a wild nature like the hero's. These interpretations reframe the story as one of female empowerment and do not characterize Little Red Riding Hood as a victim. The Practical Pig The Practical Pig
3100-483: The 1957 short Three Little Bops , the wolf (voiced by Stan Freberg ) plays a trumpet rather badly while instrument playing pigs engage in club hopping using clubs made of straw, sticks, and bricks. There is also a version appearing mostly in Bugs Bunny cartoons such as The Windblown Hare , Little Red Riding Rabbit (in which he is voiced by Billy Bletcher and Jim Backus , respectively), and many more. This
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3200-594: The 19th century two separate German versions were retold to Jacob Grimm and his younger brother Wilhelm Grimm , known as the Brothers Grimm , the first by Jeanette Hassenpflug (1791–1860) and the second by Marie Hassenpflug (1788–1856). The brothers turned the first version to the main body of the story and the second into a sequel of it. The story as Rotkäppchen was included in the first edition of their collection Kinder- und Hausmärchen (Children's and Household Tales (1812) – KHM 26). The earlier parts of
3300-473: The Big Bad Wolf from "Little Red Riding Hood," does not speak and is the runt of the litter. In the actual play show Dimension 20 's 15th season, the Big Bad Wolf is the manifestation of Death in the world of the Neverafter, who, after meeting with a starving Little Red Riding Hood, allows her to kill him, and eat his flesh, turning her into a werewolf. When the wolf passes, Little Red is left to "take up
3400-646: The Big Bad Wolf was a friend of Sylvester and antagonist of Tweety in the short Red Riding Hoodwinked . The only theatrical short subject cartoon series produced by Hanna Barbera after they left MGM and formed their own studio, Loopy de Loop is cast as a tuque -topped, kind-hearted wolf who speaks with a bad French Canadian accent, and whose kind-hearted attempts to assist almost always ended up by being rejected by those he sought to help-or something slightly worse. The Weinstein Company 's animated films Hoodwinked! and Hoodwinked Too! Hood vs. Evil features
3500-624: The Big Bad Wolf's cartoons included many sexual overtones, violence, and very rapid gags, and never became as successful as the Disney incarnation. His first debuting was Blitz Wolf (1942)—as Adolf Wolf, the Three Pigs' Hitler-like foe—[similar to the classic Disney Big Bad Wolf]]; Adolf Wolf, who is set on invading the pig's nation of Pigmania. The pig who built his house of stone, "Sergeant Pork" (an homage to Sergeant York), take his precautions and outfits his house with defense machinery, but
3600-536: The Fairy Queen", Little Bo Peep and a mermaid. In an interview with Melvyn Bragg in the early 1980s, the British actor Laurence Olivier said that Disney's Big Bad Wolf was supposedly based on a widely detested American theatre director and producer called Jed Harris . When Olivier produced a film version of Shakespeare's Richard III , he based some of his mannerisms on Harris, and his physical appearance on
3700-571: The French version, or a hunter in the Brothers Grimm and traditional German versions, comes to the rescue with an axe, and cuts open the sleeping wolf. Little Red Riding Hood and her grandmother emerge shaken, but unharmed. Then they fill the wolf's body with heavy stones. The wolf awakens and attempts to flee, but the stones cause him to collapse and die. In the Grimms' version, the wolf leaves
3800-462: The Pigs as his backup band (they are under a contract that states he will eat them if they do not play for him). In this episode, his tendency to destroy houses by exhaling is shown to be an allergy-like reaction to the sight of a door. Later appearances on House of Mouse , however, returned the Wolf to his more traditional role; one episode even featured a newly made short starring the character, based on
3900-490: The Pigs, Zeke runs afoul of Br'er Bear , who ends up pounding "Br'er Wolf" for one offense or another. Another gag is that Br'er/Zeke Wolf never succeeds at anything such as camping or stealing farm products; once he actually caught a duck for dinner but it ended up tasting awful and later he ended up with a whole pack of ducks-which turn out to be mud hens ! Another time even when he twice caught chickens {once by accident} he still loses as usual! In Disney's comics his appearance
4000-597: The Seven Young Kids ", but its general theme of restoration is at least as old as the biblical story, " Jonah and the Whale ". The theme also appears in the story of the life of Saint Margaret , wherein the saint emerges unharmed from the belly of a dragon , and in the short story "The Red Path" by Jim C. Hines . A Taiwanese story from the 16th century, known as Aunt Tiger bears several striking similarities. In this story there are two girls who are sisters. When
4100-473: The Three Little Wolves are about to bake Fifer and Fiddler into the oven as the two pigs tell them they'll be sorry when their father comes home. One of the wolf cubs uses pepper but the lid accidentally comes off and this causes the two pigs to sneeze so strong, the pie crust is duffed off and into the wolves splatting and trapping them against a wall. With the wolf cubs trapped, Fiddler and Fifer escape and rush back to Practical's house. The lie detector punishes
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4200-415: The Three Little Wolves, Big Bad Wolf's three mischievous sons who appeared in the cartoon shorts The Three Little Wolves and The Practical Pig , although he closely resembles them. Along with other Disney characters, the Big Bad Wolf appears in the animated opening of the television series The Mickey Mouse Club . In the series Bonkers , the Big Bad Wolf appears in the episode "The 29th Page" at
4300-421: The Wolf as a misunderstood Fletch -type investigator voiced by Patrick Warburton . The Wolf, whose full name is Wolf W. Wolf , works undercover assignments. His assistant and cameraman is a hyperactive squirrel named Twitchy and he writes a column for The Once Upon a Times . His reason for stalking Red Puckett is not to eat her, but rather to get information from her about a mysterious thief striking this part of
4400-475: The Wolf harder and harder until he finally tells the truth, saying "They're in the old... the old mill". He is then shot out of the house with a firecracker and seemingly explodes in the sky. Practical prepares to go save his brothers when Fiddler and Fifer burst in. When Practical scolds them for defying his warning, they tell him that they didn't go swimming, at which point the lie detector springs into action, flipping them over, dropping their shorts, and gives them
4500-1034: The Wolf in Wild and Wolfy , Swing Shift Cinderella and Little Rural Riding Hood ; simultaneously, the Wolf was used as foe against Avery's Droopy , a role he would keep into the 1950s. He would later reprise the role in the "Droopy and Dripple" segments of Hanna-Barbera 's Tom & Jerry Kids (1990). The Avery Wolf was voiced by Bill Thompson ( Blitz Wolf ), Frank Graham ( Dumb-Hounded , Red Hot Riding Hood , The Shooting of Dan McGoo , Swing Shift Cinderella , Northwest Hounded Police ), Kent Rogers ( Red Hot Riding Hood and One Ham's Family ), Billy Bletcher ( The Screwy Truant ), Patrick McGeehan ( The Screwy Truant and Wild and Woolfy ), Tex Avery ( Wild and Woolfy ), Daws Butler ( Little Rural Riding Hood ), Manuel Paris ( Caballero Droopy ), Frank Welker ( The Tom and Jerry Comedy Show , Tom & Jerry Kids , Droopy Master Detective ), Lou Scheimer ( The Tom and Jerry Comedy Show ), Will Ryan ( Thanks
4600-547: The Wolves from Little Red Riding Hood and The Three Little Pigs . They were portrayed by Gregg Edelman and Christopher Sieber , respectively. Gavin Creel portrayed the role in the original cast of the 2022 Broadway revival, Cheyenne Jackson and Andy Karl both replaced Creel in the role for limited runs. The musical was adapted into a film by Walt Disney Pictures and directed by Rob Marshall , where Johnny Depp played
4700-413: The above-mentioned final and better-known version in the 1857 edition of their work. It is notably tamer than the older stories which contained darker themes. Numerous authors have rewritten, adapted, or collected variants of this tale. Charles Marelle in his version of the fairy tale called "The True History of Little Goldenhood" (1888) gives the girl a real name – Blanchette. Andrew Lang included
4800-501: The aforementioned Li'l Bad Wolf comic stories. Apart from the series appearances, Big Bad Wolf was one of the villains in the direct-to-video film Mickey's House of Villains . In the TV short series Mickey Mouse , the Big Bad Wolf appears in the episode "Sock Burglar", as one of the villains suspected of stealing the town's socks, and in "The Perfect Dream" as a rogue biker. In the spinoff series The Wonderful World of Mickey Mouse , he
4900-468: The animated crossover featuring Ace Ventura: Pet Detective . A similar wolf appeared in the Merrie Melodies short " Bacall to Arms ", as a theater patron whose lustful mannerisms echoed that of Avery's character. The director had left Warner Brothers ' employ five years before after a dispute , so it is not certain if this was supposed to be an homage, or if Avery originally had plans to use
5000-515: The book's version of "Three Little Pigs," the Big Bad Wolf devoured the two pigs after blowing down the house. The third pig enlists Little Red Riding Hood to deal with this wolf and she does so in the same way as she did the other wolf. In the film adaption , a Wolf (voiced by Dominic West ) serves as a storyteller to Little Red Riding Hood's children after incapacitating their intended babysitter Mrs. Hunt. He has two nephews named Rolf (voiced by Rob Brydon ) and Rex (voiced by David Walliams ). Rolf
5100-546: The book, he attempted to eat Pluto and the main characters, Finn and Amanda. He ends up falling into the Rivers of America . The Big Bad Wolf makes a cameo on an Old West Wanted poster in Disney Magical World 2 . The character has also appeared as a playable character in video games such as Disney Sorcerer's Arena and Disney Magic Kingdoms . Created by animation director Tex Avery , this variation of
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#17327944305065200-509: The butt with boots, punches his face with boxing gloves, and finally tars and feathers him before firing him out of a cannon, all accomplished automatically and in time to a version of "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?". In The Practical Pig , the wolf falls into Practical Pig's trap and is subjected to the Lie Detector, which washes his mouth out with soap, whacks his hands with rulers, or pulls down his pants and spanks him when he tells
5300-412: The classic fairy tale, many of them sexual. Some are listed below. Folklorists and cultural anthropologists , such as P. Saintyves and Edward Burnett Tylor , saw "Little Red Riding Hood" in terms of solar myths and other naturally occurring cycles. Her red hood could represent the bright sun which is ultimately swallowed by the terrible night (the wolf), and the variations in which she is cut out of
5400-645: The comic book Walt Disney's Comics and Stories #52 (1945). The first story was written by Dorothy Strebe and illustrated by Carl Buettner . The feature ran regularly through 1957, when it temporarily moved to the back pages of Mickey Mouse . Li'l Wolf returned to Comics and Stories in 1961, after which he continued to appear there frequently through 2008. Li'l Wolf has in fact starred in more issues of Comics and Stories than any other character except for Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck . Apart from Comics and Stories and Mickey Mouse , Li'l Wolf has also appeared in many different Disney anthology comic books, including
5500-419: The comics, Big Bad Wolf generally wants his son to become a bad guy like himself; but, unlike the three little wolves who appeared in the shorts, the gentle Li'l Bad Wolf does not live up to his father's expectations. Indeed, Li'l Bad is friends with the Pigs, Thumper , and other forest characters whom the comics portray as Zeke's intended prey. A running gag in the comics typically comes when in trying to catch
5600-412: The currently known, Grimms-inspired version. It was told by French peasants in the 10th century and recorded by the cathedral schoolmaster Egbert of Liège . A fifteenth-century collection of folklore described an anecdote about a woman whose husband was a werewolf though it bears little resemblance to Perrault's text. In Italy, Little Red Riding Hood was told by peasants in the fourteenth century, where
5700-472: The end of the film when all the toons are gathered, wearing a sheep costume and mask which he instantly stripped off to reveal his true wolfish features. He was voiced by Tony Pope in this one (who was perhaps well known for providing the voice of the original Furby ). In 1936 Disney's Big Bad Wolf came to Sunday newspaper comics, which were reformatted and reprinted in the monthly Walt Disney's Comics and Stories in 1941. They were popular enough there that
5800-412: The fable was likely based on genuine risk of wolf attacks at the time. He argues that wolves are in fact dangerous predators, and fables served as a valid warning not to enter forests where wolves were known to live, and to be on the look out for such. Both wolves and wilderness were treated as enemies of humanity in that region and time. The Big Bad Wolf, also known as Zeke Midas Wolf or Br'er Wolf ,
5900-513: The fake letter under Practical's door. Realizing the wolf is up to his tricks and his brothers have been captured, Practical tries out his new invention. As the wolf attempts to lure Practical, the welcome mat opens under the wolf's feet, and the wolf falls into the pit below. He is next seen strapped in a chair in the basement, captured, as Practical demands to know his brothers' whereabouts. The wolf first he claims he has never heard of Practical's brothers and secondly he claims he hasn't seen them, but
6000-552: The fire. In some versions, the wolf eats the girl after she gets into bed with him, and the story ends there. In others, she sees through his disguise and tries to escape, complaining to her "grandmother" that she needs to defecate and would not wish to do so in the bed. The wolf reluctantly lets her go, tied to a piece of string so she does not get away. The girl slips the string over something else and runs off. In these stories, she escapes with no help from any male or older female figure, instead using her own cunning, or in some versions
6100-602: The fruit, whereupon the girl pours boiling hot oil down her throat, killing her. According to Paul Delarue , a similar narrative is found in East Asian stories, namely, in China, Korea and Japan, with the title "The Tiger and the Children". The origins of the Little Red Riding Hood story can be traced to several likely pre-17th century versions from various European countries. Some of these are significantly different from
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#17327944305066200-419: The girls' mother goes out, the tigress comes to the girls' house and pretends to be their aunt, asking to come in. One girl says that the aunt's voice does not sound right, so the tigress attempts to disguise her voice. Then, the girl says that the aunt's hands feel too coarse, so the tigress attempts to make her paws smoother. When finally the tigress gains entry, she eats the girl's sister. The girl comes up with
6300-424: The grandmother. When Riding Hood arrives, she notices the strange appearance of her "grandmother". After some back and forth, Riding Hood comments on the wolf's teeth, at which point the wolf leaps out of bed and eats her as well. In Charles Perrault's version of the story, the first to be published, the wolf falls asleep afterwards, whereupon the story ends. In later versions, the story continues. A woodcutter in
6400-402: The help of a younger boy who she happens to run into. Sometimes, though more rarely, the red hood is even non-existent. In other tellings of the story, the wolf chases after Little Red Riding Hood. She escapes with the help of some laundresses, who spread a sheet taut over a river so she may escape. When the wolf follows Red over the bridge of cloth, the sheet is released and the wolf drowns in
6500-467: The house and tries to drink out of a well, but the stones in his stomach cause him to fall in and drown (similarly to the story of " The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids "). Sanitized versions of the story have the grandmother locked in the closet rather than being eaten and some have Little Red Riding Hood saved by the lumberjack as the wolf advances on her rather than after she is eaten, where
6600-485: The house wishing Little Red Riding Hood a good night. After exiting the bus, the Wolf sheds Mrs. Hunt's clothes and runs into the woods. The Big Bad Wolf is a minor character in the 1987 Broadway musical Into the Woods by Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine . The Big Bad Wolf was portrayed by Robert Westenberg in the original Broadway cast and Chuck Wagner in the first national tour. The 2002 Broadway revival featured
6700-533: The huntsman cutting open the wolf he interpreted as a "rebirth"; the girl who foolishly listened to the wolf has been reborn as a new person. The poem " Þrymskviða " from the Poetic Edda mirrors some elements of Red Riding Hood. Loki 's explanations for the strange behavior of " Freyja " (actually Thor disguised as Freyja) mirror the wolf's explanations for his strange appearance. The red hood has often been given great importance in many interpretations, with
6800-510: The kindhearted (or, at worst, naive) Li'l Wolf, despite wanting to please his father, cannot bring himself to do others harm. Even worse for Zeke, Li'l Wolf's best friends are the Three Little Pigs themselves, and he constantly saves them from his father's appetite. Despite disappointing his father, Zeke Wolf was shown to be very fond of his son, and Li'l Wolf of his father. Li'l Wolf debuted in his own self-titled series, beginning in
6900-411: The lie detector detects his lies and punishes the wolf with brushes to wash his mouth out with soap and spank him in each case. The wolf then lastly tries to fool the machine by claiming that he and Practical are pals, but the lie detector sees through this and gives him the works (a spanking and a mouth washing, along with his knuckles being whacked with rulers, all at once). Back at the wolves' hideout,
7000-400: The mantle of Death", turning into a full wolf. Several recent interpretations of the Big Bad Wolf show him as being a character with relatively good intentions, mostly considered "Bad" due to a misunderstanding or prejudice. Arguably, this practice started with the 1989 children's book The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs! However, the best-known "good" adaptations are from films, where it
7100-406: The old woman while at the same time avoiding being noticed by woodcutters working in the nearby forest. Then he proceeded to lay a trap for Red Riding Hood. Little Red Riding Hood ends up being asked to climb into the bed before being eaten by the wolf, where the story ends. The wolf emerges the victor of the encounter and there is no happy ending. Charles Perrault explained the 'moral' at the end of
7200-440: The original short, he falls into a boiling pot prepared by the pigs. In The Big Bad Wolf , Practical pours popcorn and hot coals down his pants. In the final two shorts, Practical invents an anti-Wolf contraption to deal with the Wolf, who is shown to be powerless against the marvels of modern technology. The "Wolf Pacifier" in Three Little Wolves entraps him, chases him with a buzz-saw, hits his head with rolling pins, kicks him in
7300-403: The pig was dead anyway. The final pig's house was not blown down and Alexander T. Wolf went into an excessive sneezing fit while the pig allegedly insulted his grandmother. The authorities came and dragged a furious and flustered wolf away and locked him up in prison. It is from prison where Alexander T. Wolf is now telling his (not entirely convincing) story as the news reports have found out about
7400-404: The previous one. The girl did not leave the path when the wolf spoke to her, her grandmother locked the door to keep it out, and when the wolf lurked, the grandmother had Little Red Riding Hood put a trough under the chimney and fill it with water that sausages had been cooked in; the smell lured the wolf down, and it drowned. The Brothers further revised the story in later editions and it reached
7500-562: The river. And in another version the wolf is pushed into the fire, while he is preparing the flesh of the grandmother to be eaten by the girl. The earliest known printed version was known as Le Petit Chaperon Rouge and may have had its origins in 17th-century French folklore . It was included in the collection Tales and Stories of the Past with Morals. Tales of Mother Goose ( Histoires et contes du temps passé, avec des moralités. Contes de ma mère l'Oye ), in 1697, by Charles Perrault . As
7600-617: The role of the Big Bad Wolf. The film Happily N'Ever After featured three Big Bad Wolves. The Fat Wolf (voiced by Jon Polito ) is the alpha of the Big Bad Wolves and based on the Big Bad Wolf from "The Wolf and the Seven Young Goats." The Tough Wolf (voiced by Tom Kenny ) is the second-in-command, is based on the Big Bad Wolf from "Three Little Pigs," and is often competing with the Fat Wolf. The Crazy Wolf, based on
7700-402: The spirit, and married the girl who had been offered as a sacrifice. There are also a number of different stories recounted by Greek authors involving a woman named Pyrrha (literally "fire") and a man with some name meaning "wolf". The Roman poet Horace alludes to a tale in which a male child is rescued alive from the belly of Lamia , an ogress in classical mythology. The dialogue between
7800-475: The subject of numerous modern adaptations. Other names for the story are " Little Red Cap " or simply " Red Riding Hood ". It is number 333 in the Aarne–Thompson classification system for folktales. The story centers around a girl named Little Red Riding Hood, after the red hooded cape that she wears. The girl walks through the woods to deliver food to her sickly grandmother ( wine and cake depending on
7900-463: The tale so that no doubt is left to his intended meaning: From this story one learns that children, especially young lasses, pretty, courteous and well-bred, do very wrong to listen to strangers, And it is not an unheard thing if the Wolf is thereby provided with his dinner. I say Wolf, for all wolves are not of the same sort; there is one kind with an amenable disposition – neither noisy, nor hateful, nor angry, but tame, obliging and gentle, following
8000-467: The tale agree so closely with Perrault's variant that it is almost certainly the source of the tale. This version ends with the girl and her grandmother saved by a huntsman who was after the wolf's skin; this ending mirrors that in the tale " The Wolf and the Seven Young Kids ", which appears to be the source. The second part featured the girl and her grandmother trapping and killing another wolf, this time anticipating his moves based on their experience with
8100-609: The third pig's house, prompting a battle between the two parties. Towards the end of the cartoon, Adolf Wolf is blown out of his bomber plane by the pigs' artillery shells, fired from their multi-barreled "secret weapon" and filled with Defense bonds, and plummets down to Earth followed by a bomb from his own plane, which promptly blows him to Hell upon impact The Avery Wolf returned as a Hollywood swinger in Red Hot Riding Hood (1943), memorably aroused by Red's song and dance performance. Further girl-chasing roles came to
8200-474: The title character in new stories himself, although Li'l Wolf continued to play a minor role. Li'l Wolf's first animated appearance was in the Raw Toonage short "The Porker's Court". However, he later appeared, in a more traditional role, in a self-titled short on House of Mouse . The voice for the animated Li'l Wolf in House of Mouse was provided by Sam Gifaldi. Li'l Wolf is not to be confused with
8300-474: The title implies, this version is both more sinister and more overtly moralized than the later ones. The redness of the hood, which has been given symbolic significance in many interpretations of the tale, was a detail introduced by Perrault. The story had as its subject an "attractive, well-bred young lady", a village girl of the country being deceived into giving a wolf she encountered the information he needed to find her grandmother's house successfully and eat
8400-416: The translation). A stalking wolf wants to eat the girl and the food in the basket. After he inquires as to where she is going, he suggests that she pick some flowers as a present for her grandmother. While she goes in search of flowers, he goes to the grandmother's house and gains entry by pretending to be Riding Hood. He swallows the grandmother whole, climbs into her bed, and waits for the girl, disguised as
8500-407: The two dead pigs he ate and jazzed up their story. Now labeled the "Big Bad Wolf," Alexander T. Wolf stated that he was framed. The story ended with a white-bearded Alexander T. Wolf quoting "But maybe you can loan me a cup of sugar." The Looney Tunes series used the Big Bad Wolf as a stock character in several of its shorts, widely varying in its portrayal depending on the short's storyline. In
8600-426: The two pigs who built their houses of straw and sticks claim they do not have to take precautions against the wolf because they signed a non-aggression pact with him. Adolf Wolf invades Pigmania, despite the two pigs protesting that he signed a treaty with them. He destroys their houses, the straw house with "Der Mechanized Huffer Und Puffer" and the stick house with an artillery shell, forcing the pigs to take shelter in
8700-527: The wedding. A parallel to another Norse myth, the chase and eventual murder of the sun goddess by the wolf Sköll , has also been drawn. A similar story also belongs to the North African tradition, namely in Kabylia , where a number of versions are attested. The theme of the little girl who visits her (grand)dad in his cabin and is recognized by the sound of her bracelets constitutes the refrain of
8800-472: The wolf and Little Red Riding Hood has analogies to the Norse Þrymskviða from the Elder Edda ; the giant Þrymr had stolen Mjölnir , Thor 's hammer, and demanded Freyja as his bride for its return. Instead, the gods dressed Thor as a bride and sent him. When the giants note Thor's unladylike eyes, eating, and drinking, Loki explains them as Freyja's not having slept, eaten, or drunk, out of longing for
8900-668: The wolf on a project that were not realized at the time of his suspension. In the Soviet animated series Nu Pogodi , the wolf, commonly translated into English as Volk ( Russian : Волк ), is portrayed as a hooligan who eagerly turns to vandalism , abuses minors , breaks laws and is a heavy smoker . His adventures revolve around constant failures to capture a Hare . On the other hand, many of Wolf's attempts to catch Hare are often characterized by uncanny abilities on his part (including figure skating , ballet and waltzing ) which demonstrate his more refined side. Wolf can also play
9000-519: The wolf represents the night swallowing the sun, and the variations in which Little Red Riding Hood is cut out of the wolf's belly represent the dawn. In this interpretation, there is a connection between the wolf of this tale and Skoll or Fenrir , the wolf in Norse mythology that will swallow the sun at Ragnarök . Ethologist Dr. Valerius Geist of the University of Calgary , Alberta wrote that
9100-449: The wolf's belly represent the dawn. In this interpretation, there is a connection between the wolf of this tale and Sköll , the wolf in Norse mythology that will swallow the personified Sun at Ragnarök , or Fenrir . Alternatively, the tale could be about the season of spring or the month of May, escaping the winter. The tale has been interpreted as a puberty rite, stemming from a prehistoric origin (sometimes an origin stemming from
9200-450: The wolf. The short was so popular that Walt Disney produced several sequels, which also featured the Wolf as the villain. The first of them was named after him: The Big Bad Wolf , also directed by Burt Gillett and first released on April 14, 1934. In the next of the sequels, Three Little Wolves (1936), he was accompanied by three just-as-carnivorous sons. (These three sons were later reduced to just one who, in contrast to his father,
9300-408: The woodcutter kills or simply chases away the wolf with his axe. The story displays similarities to stories from classical Greece and Rome. Scholar Graham Anderson has compared the story to a local legend recounted by Pausanias in which, each year, a virgin girl was offered to a malevolent spirit dressed in the skin of a wolf, who raped the girl. Then, one year, the boxer Euthymos came along, slew
9400-409: The woods. Little Red Riding Hood Little Red Riding Hood is a European fairy tale about a young girl and a sly wolf. Its origins can be traced back to several pre-17th-century European folk tales . The two best known versions were written by Charles Perrault and the Brothers Grimm . The story has varied considerably in different versions over the centuries, translations, and as
9500-457: The young maids in the streets, even into their homes. Alas! Who does not know that these gentle wolves are of all such creatures the most dangerous! This, the presumed original version of the tale was written for the late seventeenth-century French court of King Louis XIV . This audience, whom the King entertained with extravagant parties, presumably would take from the story's intended meaning. In
9600-442: Was a more humorous wolf, being somewhat stupid and prone to anger. In Pigs in a Polka , the wolf is portrayed as a master of disguise, dressing as a gypsy and a beggar to fool the Three Little Pigs. A typical gag in these stories would have a sign poke into the foreground, stating, "IT'S THE BIG, BAD WOLF," whereupon the wolf would angrily shove it away, saying, "Oh, all right, knock it off! They know who I am!" A different version of
9700-432: Was full of goodness and charm and a friend of the Three Little Pigs.) The fourth cartoon featuring the Three Little Pigs and the Wolf, The Practical Pig , was released in 1939. During World War II , a final, propaganda cartoon followed, produced by The National Film Board of Canada : The Thrifty Pig (1941). At the end of each short, the Wolf is dealt with by the resourceful thinking and hard work of Practical Pig. In
9800-423: Was originally voiced by Anatoli Papanov . In the book Revolting Rhymes , by famous writer Roald dahl , the Big Bad Wolves from "Little Red Riding Hood" and "Three Little Pigs" appear. In the book's version of "Little Red Riding Hood," the Big Bad Wolf devours grandma like the story and an unfooled Little Red Riding Hood uses her concealed pistol to shoot him dead. She managed to make a wolfskin coat from him. In
9900-400: Was referenced in the film The Mask (1994), when Stanley/The Mask (performed by Jim Carrey ) briefly transforms into him while watching Tina Carlyle perform in a Red Hot Riding Hood-like performance, howling and whistling at her and then banging his head with a mallet. The Mask also changes into his wolf-like form on occasion in the spin-off animated series of the same name , particularly in
10000-493: Was the one who ate Little Red Riding Hood's grandmother following a falling out with his uncle and is killed by Little Red Riding Hood who later skinned him for a wolf-skin coat. Rex eats the Banker Pig's brothers and is killed by Little Red Riding Hood when he tries to use dynamite on his bank. Once Little Red Riding Hood's children are asleep after the story, the Wolf decides not to exact revenge for his dead nephews and leaves
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