Perrault’s and the Grimms’ old Little Red Riding Hood story is very much present in Brazilian literature. This article analyses four rewritings published during the 1964-1985 dictatorship. Chapeuzinho Vermelho is a humouristic parody by Millôr Fernandes’s scientific and academic discourse (1967). In Mario Prata’s Chapeuzinho vermelho de raiva (1970), the wolf, cross-dressed as the grand-mother, is more preoccupied by his look than threatening for the little girl. Chapeuzinho Amarelo is a beautiful poem written for children by Chico Buarque (1979) that invents a poetic means to overcome one’s childhood fears. In Fita verde no cabelo, a “new old story”, the Brazilian writer Guimarães Rosa deals again with fear: in this story, it is not the wolf that the little girls meets but Death.