Who wrote the original Red Riding Hood?

An anthropologist uses scientific methods to discover the origins of Little Red Riding Hood. ... Where did the original story come from? Scholars have been puzzling over that for ... Red Riding Hood"? It's been suggested that the tale was an invention of Charles Perrault, who wrote it down in the 17th century. read more

James N. Barker wrote 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. read more

It does look like Perrault's was the first published version. No one knows how old the story is because it first existed in oral form for an unknown length of time before Perrault published it. read more

Red Riding Hood, however, quickly fetched great stones with which they filled the wolf's belly, and when he awoke, he wanted to run away, but the stones were so heavy that he collapsed at once, and fell dead. read more