How to Be Eaten Alive without Actually Dying

Elisabith, a local village girl, and her grandmother were saved by a hunter after having been eaten whole by a terrible wolf yesterday morning.

The grandmother lives about one and a half miles outside the village in the woods by three big oak trees and a stream running by a garden. Although she has been sick recently, she was going to be visited by her granddaughter with some tasty treats to make her feel better.

Instead, a hungry wolf, which briefly met and distracted Elisabith on the way to her house, fooled the grandmother into letting him in. He ate her whole and quickly disguised himself. Elisabeth soon made her way to the house without knowing what had happened. The wolf ate her whole as well.

A hunter passing by noticed a disturbance of loud snoring. He made his way into the house and observed a large-bellied wolf sleeping in the bedroom. He killed the wolf, as he was trying to do so for many years, by cutting open its stomach. The grandmother and Elisabith sprung out of the wolf’s carcass in rejoice.

The two were totally unscathed in the incident. The hunter skinned the wolf and nailed the pelt to his door to notify everyone about the wolf’s death.

"I could not believe that we did not die. I sure thought I was a goner,” said the grandmother.

“I was so scared. But, now grandmother and I are safe, and the wolf is dead,” replied Little Red Riding Hood – Elisabith’s local epithet.

The shy hunter did not want to comment on the story. Little Red Riding Hood and her grandmother were grateful for being saved. Citizens rejoiced the wolf’s death, and the hunter has been found a local hero.