In this series, we take Wikipedia articles and retire the ancient words — nothing else. The facts stay the same. The language just learns to breathe.
The story revolves around a girl named Little Red Riding Hood, named 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 the translation).
A stalking wolf wants to eat the girl and the food in the basket. After he asks where she is going, he suggests that she pick some flowers as a present for her grandmother. While she goes looking for flowers, he goes to the grandmother’s house and gets in by pretending to be Riding Hood. He swallows the grandmother whole, climbs into her bed, and waits for the girl, disguised as 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, and then the story ends.
In later versions, the story continues: A woodcutter 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 come out shaken, but unhurt. They then fill the wolf’s body with heavy stones. The wolf wakes up and tries to run away, but the stones cause him to collapse and die. In the Grimms’ version, the wolf leaves the house and tries to drink out of a well, but the stones in his stomach cause him to fall in and drown (much like the story of The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids).
Gentler versions of the story have the grandmother locked in the closet instead of being eaten, and some have Little Red Riding Hood saved by the lumberjack before she is eaten, where the woodcutter kills the wolf with his axe or simply chases him away.
Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Ancient words retired: whereupon → and then, inquires → asks, gains entry → gets in, emerge → come out, unharmed → unhurt, flee → run away.