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    The document discusses the origins and early versions of the Sleeping Beauty fairy tale. It began in Norse mythology and 16th century French literature, with more gruesome elements like curses, assaults, and cannibalism. Giambattista Basile's 17th century version included the princess being raped while asleep and having twins, while Charles Perrault later sanitized the story. The Brothers Grimm further modified the tale in the early 1800s to its happier form involving Princess Briar Rose awakening with True Love's kiss.

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    THE STORY OF SLEEPING BEAUTY

    Early Versions Were Meant for Adults

    The Walt Disney Sleeping Beauty story is only half the tale and is sanitized. In some early, more gruesome accounts, even the prince wasn't a completely nice guy. The beloved fairy tale story of a young woman who goes into a comatose state after getting a splinter in her finger and then being revived by a handsome prince, has its basic elements in both Nordic mythology and 16th century French literature. From these beginnings, the story was developed by Giambattista Basile and revised by Charles Perrault, and the Brothers Grimm.

    The Origins of Sleeping Beauty In the 12th century Norse saga, Volsunga, a story is told of how the god Odin, upset with the valkyrie, Brunhilda, cursed her to sleep on a couch surrounded by fire until any man would rescue and marry her. Eventually, she is rescued when Siegfried enters her domain and awakens the woman warrior by cutting off her armor. Four centuries after Volsunga, in 1528, Perceforest was printed in Paris. Based on oral stories from the 1300s, the work included a section titled Histoire de Troylus et de Zellandine. In this story a disgruntled deity places a curse on the young princess Zellandine which causes her to go into a deep slumber. Many years later a prince, Troylus, happens upon the woman and assaults her. As a result they have a child.

    Giambattista Basile and Charles Perraults Sleeping Beauty In the early 1600s, Basile, an Italian nobleman, published Pentamerone, a collection of folk and fairy tales. Among the stories was one called Sun, Moon and Talia, in which Talia, pricked by a poisonous thorn, falls asleep, and is raped by a married prince. When the prince eventually returns, he discovers that Talia has awoken from her sleep and he has a second family, specifically twins named Sun and Moon. The princes wife does not take kindly to her husbands adultery. In a rage she orders that that Sun and Moon be taken by the cook, killed, and served in a stew for her husband. Pronouncing the stew to be excellent by the prince, the wife exclaims "Eat up, you're eating what's your very own." Mortified, the prince throws her into the fire. Later, he discovers that the kind-hearted cook had substituted a goat for the children. The prince then marries Talia. The French collector of folklore, Charles Perrault, published La Belle au Bois Dormant

    in his Histoires ou Contes du Temps Pass (1697). The story is essentially the same as Basiles with a few added features. A mischievous fairy is the source of the curse placed on the young woman; the children are named Aurora and Jour; the princes vengeful wife is replaced by his ogre mother; and an attempt is also made to serve Beauty as a meal. Instead of a fire, the mother is thrown into a boiling cauldron.

    The Brothers Grimm and the Sleeping Beauty Story In the early 1800s, the German folklorists, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, modified the fairy tale in their story of Dornroschen (Little Briar Rose)." The story has none of the macabre features of earlier tales, has only half the plot, and has a true fairy tale ending. The story reaches its denouement when the prince awakens Rose with a kiss. Shortly afterwards, they marry and live happily ever after. It is this version that Disney adapted for his Sleeping Beauty movie, although he did pay some homage to Perraults story. Despite being called Briar Rose by the good fairies who protect her, the princesss real name is Aurora, the same name as one of the illegitimate children in the Frenchmans tale.

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