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Sleeping Beauty

“Sleeping Beauty” is a fairy tale about a princess cursed by an evil fairy to sleep for a hundred years before being awakened by a handsome prince. A good fairy, knowing the princess would be frightened if alone when she wakes, uses her wand to put every living person and animal in the palace and forest asleep, to awaken when the princess does… The Aarne-Thompson classification system for fairy tales lists “Sleeping Beauty” as a Type 410: it includes a princess who is magically forced into sleep and later woken, reversing the magic…
Alias Sleeping Beauty
Real Names/Alt Names Little Briar Rose
Characteristics Hero, Royalty, European Folklore, Occult, The Renaissance, Public Domain
Creators/Key Contributors Unknown
First Appearance “Sun, Moon, and Talia” in Pentamerone (1634–1636) by Giambattista Basile
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Appearance List “Sun, Moon, and Talia” in Pentamerone (1634–1636) by Giambattista Basile; “La Belle au bois dormant” in Histoires ou contes du temps passé (1697) by Charles Perrault; “Dornröschen” In Kinder- und Hausmärchen (1812) by Jacob Grimm & Wilhelm Grimm; “The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood” (1863 ed.) by Charles Perrault; “An Old Fairy Tale: The Sleeping Beauty” (1868) by J. R. Planché (after Perrault), illustrated by Richard Doyle; “Sleeping Beauty” (1880) — anonymous / Perrault-derived edition / American chapbook-style publication; “The Sleeping Beauty and Other Fairy Tales from the Old French” (1910) ed. Arthur Quiller-Couch, illustrations by Edmund Dulac; Old-Time Stories Told by Master Charles Perrault (1921), trans. A. E. Johnson, ill. W. Heath Robinson [Internet Archive]. Ballet: The Sleeping Beauty (Bolshoi, 1890) by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Film: Sleeping Beauty (1910) dir. J. Searle Dawley; Sleeping Beauty (1959) by Walt Disney Productions.
Sample Read Old-Time Stories Told by Master Charles Perrault (1921) [Internet Archive]
Description “Sleeping Beauty” is a fairy tale about a princess cursed by an evil fairy to sleep for a hundred years before being awakened by a handsome prince. A good fairy, knowing the princess would be frightened if alone when she wakes, uses her wand to put every living person and animal in the palace and forest asleep, to awaken when the princess does… The Aarne-Thompson classification system for fairy tales lists “Sleeping Beauty” as a Type 410: it includes a princess who is magically forced into sleep and later woken, reversing the magic…
Source Sleeping Beauty – Wikipedia
Sleeping Beauty (Dornröschen) | Alexander Zick
Sleeping Beauty (Dornröschen) | Alexander Zick

Old-Time Stories Told by Master Charles Perrault (1921) | W. Heath Robinson, Old-Time Stories Told by Master Charles Perrault (1921) | W. Heath Robinson, The Sleeping Beauty (1876), later republished in The Sleeping Beauty Picture Book (1911) | Walter Crane