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The Path of Needles or Pins: Little Red Riding Hood by Terri Windling (via ):
The bzou stopped the girl and asked, "Where are you going? What do you carry?"
"I'm going my grandmother's house," said the girl, "and I'm bringing her bread and cream."
"Which path will you take?" the bzou asked. "The Path of Needles or the Path of Pins?"
"I'll take the Path of Pins," said the girl.
"Why then, I'll take the Path of Needles, and we'll see who gets there first."
...и открылось мне, что я ничего раньше не знала о Красной Шапочке:
Little Red Riding Hood, as we know it today, is a cautionary tale warning little girls of the perils of disobedience, but the older story is a complex one of female initiative and maturation.
И о судах над оборотнями:
As German folklorist Marianne Rumpf has documented, France was positively rife with werewolf trials in the 15th to 17th centuries — a masculine counterpart to the witch hysteria of the time. In werewolf trials, men stood accused of shape-shifting, killing and devouring children, as well as of incest and other unnatural acts. These men transformed into wolves, it was said, with the help of salves purchased from the Devil. Any man might be a wolf in disguise, and any wolf, a man. In 1598, to give just one example, a man named Jacques Raollet was tried as a werewolf in Angers, Touraine — which was a time and place when Perrault's own mother might have witnessed these events.
И слове "chaperone":
Unlike a number of the other salon writers, however (including his niece, Marie-Jeanne L'Héritier), Perrault maintained traditional ideas about the role of women, and his tales demonstrated the "correct" behavior expected of women of his class. <...> Perrault gives her a red chaperon to wear — a fashionable little hat, not a hood, that was generally made out of velvet or satin.