The Fairy Tellers
The Fairy Tellers
The Fairy Tellers
#131 Grand Aunt Tiger
1 hour 9 minutes Posted Apr 12, 2026 at 12:32 am.
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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