Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-6208134-20130202010219/@comment-4839682-20130214004225

In the original tale, there is a princess who is cursed and slumbers (this is Aurora's mother) and a prince, nameless, who rescues her. Then, they have a daughter who is often called Aurora. Disney just took the name of the daughter and applied it to the Sleeping Beauty, and named the Prince Phillip. OUaT is doing homage to the disney film by using these names, and the name "Maleficent". As for the specifics of Aurora's mother and what happened to her as well as what led to Aurora also sleeping, we just don't know. We don't know what relationship Maleficent has with all of them, at least not the full extent.

And Anubis, I'm pretty sure you once said you'd never read the original tale; it would explain why you can't seem to accept OUaT's changes...