Big bad wolf
One of the most scariest villains of fairy tales is the Big Bad Wolf. Not only does this creature appear in a number of fairy tales, but in most of them the "big bad wolf" is always motivated by hunger, and this means EATING the main characters. This villain is a stalker and a predator. It isn't even friendly. The Big Bad Wolf is manipulative, in trying to get into the victim's house, and devouring them. Such a character isn't only confined to fairy tales, but is also in Aesop's Fables from ancient Greece. The wolf is a danger.
The Big Bad Wolf has starred in stories including the most famous or infamous Little Red Riding Hood. The original story is much darker than modern sanitised versions. In the original, the wolf has killed the grandmother, and then he kills Red Riding Hood. This is a story written by the Brothers Grimm, although it's based on an earlier oral folk tale. Another of the Grimm's stories including this wolf is The Wolf and the Seven Young Kids, about seven little goats that are warned by their mother not to let the wolf inside. This is another tense story that results in the wolf tricking the young goats into believing it's safe to let him in, and he eats them all, apart from one, who manages to hide. Later the mother goat rescues her children from the wolf's belly. Another story is "Three Little Pigs" by Joseph Jacobs, when the Big Bad Wolf is determined to get at the three piglets safe inside their house. These stories are pretty scary for small children.
For more stories and tales about the Big Bad Wolf, go and visit this Wikipedia page on the Big Bad Wolf and read about the different stories that this villain appears in.
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