Little Red Riding Hood may be commonly depicted as pale-skinned and blonde but she has distant relatives in Africa and Asia, research has shown.
Scientists traced the folk tale's evolutionary tree and found links with similar stories as far away as China, Japan and Korea.
Just as humans and chimpanzees share an ancient ancestor, all these tales arose from a common source, experts believe.
The Wolf and the Kids, a story dating back to the first century AD and popular in Europe and the Middle East, tells of a wolf that impersonates a nanny goat and devours her offspring.
Some 1,000 years later the wolf was still cast in the role of the villain, but the nanny goat was transformed into Red Riding Hood's grandmother.
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