Instead, the gods dressed Thor as a bride and sent him. The dialogue between the wolf and Little Red Riding Hood has analogies to the Norse Þrymskviða from the Elder Edda the giant Þrymr had stolen Mjölnir, Thor's hammer, and demanded Freyja as his bride for its return. The Roman poet Horace alludes to a tale in which a male child is rescued alive from the belly of Lamia, an ogress in classical mythology. There are also a number of different stories recounted by Greek authors involving a woman named Pyrrha (literally "fire") and a man with some name meaning "wolf". Then, one year, the boxer Euthymos came along, slew the spirit, and married the girl who had been offered as a sacrifice. Scholar Graham Anderson has compared the story to a local legend recounted by Pausanias in which, each year, a virgin girl was offered to a malevolent spirit dressed in the skin of a wolf, who raped the girl. The story displays many similarities to stories from classical Greece and Rome. "Little Red Riding Hood" illustration by Arthur Rackham.
Sanitized 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 as the wolf advances on her rather than after she is eaten, where the woodcutter kills the wolf with his axe. 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 (similarly to the story of " The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids"). The wolf awakens and attempts to flee, but the stones cause him to collapse and die. Then they fill the wolf's body with heavy stones. Little Red Riding Hood and her grandmother emerge shaken, but unharmed. A woodcutter in the French version, or a hunter in the Brothers Grimm and traditional German versions, comes to the rescue with an axe, and cuts open the sleeping wolf. In later and better-known versions, the story continues.
In Charles Perrault's version of the story (the first version to be published), the tale ends here.
She says, "What a deep voice you have!" ("The better to greet you with", responds the wolf), "Goodness, what big eyes you have!" ("The better to see you with", responds the wolf), "And what big hands you have!" ("The better to embrace you with", responds the wolf), and lastly, "What a big mouth you have" ("The better to eat you with!", responds the wolf), at which point the wolf jumps out of the bed and eats her, too. When the girl arrives, she notices that her grandmother looks very strange.
Gustave Doré's engraving of the scene: "She was astonished to see how her grandmother looked."
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