Many years ago, a woodcutter and his wife, with their two children, Hansel and Gretel, lived upon the outskirts of dense woods. They were very poor so that when a famine fell upon the land, and bread became dear, they could no longer afford to buy sufficient food for the whole family.
Once upon a time, there was a dear little girl who was loved by everyone who looked at her, but most of all by her grandmother, and there was nothing that she would not have given to the child. Once she gave her a little cap of red velvet. So she was always called Little Red Riding Hood.
