Liz Warren | Storyteller

It’s amazing – the Little Red Riding Hood icon is everywhere.  From a medieval wariness of sylvan carnivores to doe-eyed Amanda Seyfried  in the 2011 photoplay on who the village’s werewolf really is…she lives!  There is so much for a storyteller/musician to choose from: Cajun swamp, French Salon, German mass market, AfrAm urban, and feminist versions!  The “original” folk story has no red garments—and no helpless chick – but does have a young woman who gets herself out of a nasty situation.  Some early versions have an ogre or “Bzou” (werewolf) as the antagonist against the sometimes innocent, sometimes foolhardy girl—so the movie’s not far off that way.  And its PG-13 rating’s nothing compared to the real folk tale!  “Believe the Legend—Beware the Wolf”!