Note 42 — PERRAULT'S
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Contes de Charles Perrault, Paris, s. a. p. lxiv. Perrault's love of refining is not idle in Le Chaperon Rouge. In the popular versions, in Brittany and the Nièvre, the wolf puts the grandmother in the pot, and her blood in bottles, and makes the unconscious child eat and drink her ancestress! The cock or the robin redbreast warns her in vain, and she is swallowed. (Mélusine, May 5, 1887.)