In this episode, Geoff and Katrina dive back into Little Red Riding Hood variants in other parts of the world. ATU 123 and ATU 333 can be found in China, Korea, Japan, and the African Diaspora. But while Bruno Bettelheim and others want to talk a big game about the wolf being a representation of the dangers of sexuality, what can we glean from a shapeshifting tiger/old woman, a yokai, and ...a rabbit? Find out as we have a fun time retelling these tales to explain how some "universals" might not be so universal.

Stories Told:

Grandaunt Tiger found in Little Red Riding Hood: A Casebook pg 23 Essay by Wolfram Eberhard

The Golden Chain from Heaven found in Folktales of Japan by Keigo Seki

Cutta Cord-la found in Afro-American Folktales: Stories from Black Tradition in the New World by Roger D Abrahams

Books and Essays Cited:

Little Red Riding Hood: A Casebook Edited by Alan Dundes

The Story of Grandaunt Tiger essay by Wolfram Eberhard 

The Uses of Enchantment by Bruno Bettelheim