Little Red Riding Hood is an often told fairy tale of many variations. The story features a little girl intent on visiting her grandmother. She meets a wolf in the forest and tells it of her plans. The wolf races ahead to Grandmother's, eats her, then deceives Red Riding Hodd when she arrives to give her grandmother the goodies in her basket. The ending of the story varies by degrees in its gruesome details. More recent versions skip some of the gore for a more child-friendly outcome. The story has remained a popular fairy tale for centuries