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{{Icons|MProtect|Real|Story|Wiki|S2|S3|S4}} {{Box|This article focuses on the fairytale, '''"Sleeping Beauty"'''.<br>For the film, see '''"[[Sleeping Beauty (Film)]]"'''.<br>For the first [[Enchanted Forest]] character known as Sleeping Beauty, see '''[[Briar Rose|Briar Rose]]'''.<br>For the second, see '''[[Aurora]]'''.}} {{Story
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{{Icons|MProtect|Real|Story|Wiki|S2|S3|S4}} {{Box|This article focuses on the fairytale, '''"Sleeping Beauty"'''.<br>For the film, see '''"[[Sleeping Beauty (Film)]]"'''.<br>For the first [[Enchanted Forest]] character known as Sleeping Beauty, see '''[[Briar Rose]]'''.<br>For the second, see '''[[Aurora]]'''.}} {{Story
 
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|name = Sleeping Beauty
 
|name = Sleeping Beauty
|writers = [[wikipedia:Charles Perrault|Charles Perrault]]
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|writers = [[Wikipedia:Charles Perrault|Charles Perrault]]
 
|publication = 1697
 
|publication = 1697
|episode = [[Broken]]"
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|episode = "[[Broken]]"
 
*"[[Unforgiven]]"
 
*"[[Unforgiven]]"
 
*"[[Enter the Dragon]]"
 
*"[[Enter the Dragon]]"
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*"[[Best Laid Plans]]"}}
*"[[Best Laid Plans]]}} '''"Sleeping Beauty"''', also known as '''"La Belle au bois dormant"''', is a fairytale featured on [[ABC]]'s ''[[Once Upon a Time]]''. It was written by French author [[wikipedia:Charles Perrault|Charles Perrault]] and incorporated in the book '''"[[wikipedia:Histoires ou contes du temps passé|Stories or Fairy Tales from Past Times with Morals]]"''' in 1697. Another version of this story was written by the German authors, The [[Wikipedia:Brothers Grimm|Brothers Grimm]], under the title '''"Little Briar Rose"'''. {{TOC}}
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'''"Sleeping Beauty"''', also known as '''"La Belle au bois dormant"''', is a fairytale featured on [[ABC]]'s ''[[Once Upon a Time]]''. It was written by French author [[Wikipedia:Charles Perrault|Charles Perrault]] and incorporated in the book '''"[[Wikipedia:Histoires ou contes du temps passé|Stories or Fairy Tales from Past Times with Morals]]"''' in 1697. Another version of this story was written by the German authors, The [[Wikipedia:Brothers Grimm|Brothers Grimm]], under the title '''"Little Briar Rose"'''.
 
==Plot==
 
==Plot==
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<center>'''Perrault's version'''</center>
 
A King and Queen longing to have children do everything in their power to conceive but are unable to do so. After some time, the Queen gives birth to a baby girl and both she and her husband prepare a banquet to take place on the day of the christening. Among the invited guests are seven fairies, who are selected to act as godmothers to the princess.
 
A King and Queen longing to have children do everything in their power to conceive but are unable to do so. After some time, the Queen gives birth to a baby girl and both she and her husband prepare a banquet to take place on the day of the christening. Among the invited guests are seven fairies, who are selected to act as godmothers to the princess.
   
The day of the christening eventually arrives and, following the proceedings, the royals and their guests adjourn to the King's castle for the banquet. The seven fairies, upon taking their seats, are presented with golden caskets and bejeweled cutlery. At the exact same moment, an elderly fairy, who had been overlooked because the entire kingdom believed her to be dead, enters the castle and is given a seating but not a golden casket. Taking offense, she murmurs threats only to be overheard by the youngest fairy, who hides when the guests finish eating. 
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The day of the christening eventually arrives and, following the proceedings, the royals and their guests adjourn to the King's castle for the banquet. The seven fairies, upon taking their seats, are presented with golden caskets and bejeweled cutlery. At the same moment, an elderly fairy, who had not been seen in several years and presumed dead by all, enters the room. She is immediately given a place at the table but neither a casket nor cutlery. Taking offense at the perceived oversight, the fairy murmurs threats under her breath only to be overheard by the youngest of the seven fairies, who hides when the assemblage finishes eating. 
   
 
After the six other fairies bless the princess with the gifts of beauty, wit, grace, dance, song, and musicality, the Wicked Fairy curses her to prick her finger on a spindle and die. The youngest fairy immediately steps forward and uses her gift to partially reverse the curse, making it so that the princess will instead fall into a deep sleep that will last a hundred years and end when she is awoken by a king's son.
 
After the six other fairies bless the princess with the gifts of beauty, wit, grace, dance, song, and musicality, the Wicked Fairy curses her to prick her finger on a spindle and die. The youngest fairy immediately steps forward and uses her gift to partially reverse the curse, making it so that the princess will instead fall into a deep sleep that will last a hundred years and end when she is awoken by a king's son.
   
The King, determined to prevent the Wicked Fairy's prophecy from being fulfilled, bans all spinning wheels and spindles from the kingdom, proclaiming that anyone in possession of such objects shall be put to death.
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The King, determined to prevent the Wicked Fairy's prophecy from being fulfilled, bans all spinning wheels and spindles from the kingdom, proclaiming that anyone in possession of such objects shall be put to death. Years pass, however, and the prophecy is all but forgotten as the princess grows into a beautiful young woman.
   
When the princess is fifteen or sixteen and her parents are away on pleasure bent, she wanders through the palace rooms going up and down and then chances upon an old woman who is spinning with her distaff in the garret of a tower and had not heard of the king's decree against spinning wheels. The princess asks to try the unfamiliar task and the inevitable happens: the curse is fulfilled. The old woman cries for help and attempts are made to revive her, but to no avail. The king attributes this to fate and has the princess carried to the finest room in the palace and placed upon a bed of gold-and-silver-embroidered fabric.
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One day, when the King and Queen are away on holiday, the Princess is exploring the castle when she comes across a room located at the top of a tower, where an old woman who has never heard of the King's edict sits spinning with a distaff. Thoroughly intrigued by the task, the Princess attempts to copy the old woman only to prick her finger on the spindle and fulfill the curse.
   
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When several attempts to revive the Princess fail, the King and Queen return and carry her to one of the castle's bedrooms. The seventh fairy then appears, having learned about the tragedy from a dwarf with enchanted boots, and enacts a spell that causes everyone in the castle to fall asleep until the Wicked Fairy's curse is broken.
The good fairy who altered the evil prophecy is summoned by a dwarf wearing seven-league boots and returns in a chariot of fire drawn by dragons. Having great powers of foresight, the good fairy sees that the princess will be distressed to find herself alone and so puts everyone in the castle to sleep. The king and queen kiss their daughter goodbye and depart, proclaiming the entrance to be forbidden. The good fairy's magic also summons a forest of trees, brambles and thorns that spring up around the castle, shielding it from the outside world and preventing anyone from disturbing the princess.
 
   
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The seventh fairy proceeds to surround the King's castle with a forest of thick brambles so as to shield it from the outside world. Time passes and, by the time the hundred years comes to an end, another King has taken control of the kingdom.
A hundred years pass and a prince from another family spies the hidden castle during a hunting expedition. His attendants tell him differing stories regarding the happenings in the castle until an old man recounts his father's words: within the castle lies a beautiful princess who is doomed to sleep for a hundred years, whereupon a king's son is to come and awaken her. The prince then braves the tall trees, brambles and thorns which part at his approach, and enters the castle. He passes the sleeping castle folk and comes across the chamber where the princess lies asleep on the bed.
 
   
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One day, while hunting with his retinue, the new King's son sees the castle towering over the forest of brambles and interrogates his attendants. They all tell him varying accounts while a passing peasant recounts the story of the Sleeping Princess, to which the Prince becomes fascinated and rides into the forest.
Trembling at the radiant beauty before him, he falls on his knees before her. The enchantment comes to an end and the princess awakens and converses with the prince for a long time. Meanwhile, the rest of the castle awakes and go about their business. The prince and princess head over to the hall of mirrors to dine and are later married by the chaplain in the castle chapel.
 
   
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Prepared to brave the brambles, the Prince is surprised to see them part when he approaches and even more surprised when he enters the castle. He eventually comes across the Sleeping Princess and, finding himself infatuated with her, falls to his knees.
==Show Adaptation==
 
*''Once Upon a Time'' uses the names Aurora, Phillip, Maleficent and Stefan, which are the names given to Sleeping Beauty, her prince, the wicked fairy and the king respectively in the [[Sleeping Beauty (Film)|Disney version]]. In the Perrault story, Sleeping Beauty has a daughter named L'Aurore, which is the origin of "Aurora" as the name of Sleeping Beauty herself in the Disney movie.
 
*[[Aurora|Princess Aurora]] is the daughter of the first [[Sleeping Beauty]], who also fell under the [[Sleeping Curse]] in the past.<ref>http://www.tvguide.com/News/Once-Upon-Time-Spoilers-Horowitz-Kitsis-1054834.aspx</ref>
 
*Maleficent pricks Aurora forcefully with a [[Spinning Wheels|spinning wheel]] spindle.
 
*[[Maleficent]] transformed Prince Philip into a Yaoguai so he won't find Aurora.
 
*[[Prince Phillip]] traveled with [[Mulan]] to find Aurora, who slept for more than twenty-eight years, not a hundred.
 
   
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At the same moment, the curse breaks, causing both the Princess and everyone else in the castle to wake up. The Prince and Princess engage in a conversation that lasts a long time and, after a long dinner, decide to get married in the castle's chapel.
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After wedding the Princess in secret, the Prince continues to visit her and she bears him two children, Aurore (Dawn) and Jour (Day), unbeknown to his mother, who is of an ogre lineage. When the time comes for the Prince to ascend the throne, he brings his wife, children, and the talabutte ("Count of the Mount").
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The Ogress Queen Mother sends the young Queen and the children to a house secluded in the woods and directs her cook to prepare the boy with Sauce Robert for dinner. The kind-hearted cook substitutes a lamb for the boy, which satisfies the Queen Mother. She then demands the girl but the cook this time substitutes a young goat, which also satisfies the Queen Mother. When the Ogress demands that he serve up the young Queen, the latter offers to slit her throat so that she may join the children that she imagines are dead.
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While the Queen Mother is satisfied with a hind prepared with Sauce Robert in place of the young Queen, there is a tearful secret reunion of the Queen and her children. However, the Queen Mother soon discovers the cook's trick and she prepares a tub in the courtyard filled with vipers and other noxious creatures. The King returns in the nick of time and the Ogress, her true nature having been exposed, throws herself into the tub and is fully consumed. The King, young Queen, and children then live happily ever after.
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<center>'''Grimm version'''</center>
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The Brothers Grimm version of the fairytale ends when the prince wakes up Sleeping Beauty and does not include part two as found in Perrault's version. Instead of falling to his knees in front of the girl, the prince stoops down and gives her a kiss just as the curse breaks.
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==Show Adaptation==
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*The [[Briar Rose|first Sleeping Beauty]] gives birth to a daughter named [[Aurora]], who later falls under the same [[Sleeping Curse]] her mother fell under.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.tvguide.com/news/once-upon-time-spoilers-horowitz-kitsis-1054834/|title=Lightning Round 2: Once Upon a Time Bosses Answer Your Burning Questions!|date=October 18, 2012|first=Natalie|last=Abrams|quote='''Was it [[Aurora]]'s ([[Sarah Bolger]]) [[Briar Rose|mother]] that [[Evil Queen|Regina]] ([[Lana Parrilla]]) was referring to back in [[Season One|Season 1]] who got the best of [[Maleficent]] ([[Kristin Bauer van Straten|Kristin Bauer]])?'''<br>'''[[Edward Kitsis]]''': Yes|publisher=''[[Wikipedia:TV Guide|TV Guide]]''}}</ref>
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**It is unknown for how long the first Sleeping Beauty slept, but it is known that Aurora slept for more than twenty-eight years.
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*The Wicked Fairy turns the Prince into a Yaoguai and exiles him to a foreign land in order to prevent him from waking Aurora up.
   
 
==Characters Featured==
 
==Characters Featured==
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{| width="100%" style="background:gainsboro;text-align:center; "
*The [[Maleficent|Wicked Fairy]]
 
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|-
*[[Aurora|Sleeping Beauty]]/[[Briar Rose|Sleeping Beauty]]
 
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!width="30%" style="background:silver;"|Original Character
*The [[King Stefan|King]]
 
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!width="30%" style="background:silver;"|Adaptated as
*[[Briar Rose|The Queen]]
 
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!width="30%" style="background:silver;"|First Featured in
*The [[Prince Phillip|Prince]]/[[King Stefan|The Prince]]
 
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|-
*[[Aurora|L'Aurore]]
 
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|rowspan="2" style="background:lightgray;" |The Wicked Fairy
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| style="background:lightgray;" |[[Maleficent]]
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| style="background:lightgray;" |"[[The Thing You Love Most]]"
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|-
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| style="background:lightgray;" |Dragon
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| style="background:lightgray;" |"[[Homecoming]]"
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|-
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| rowspan="3" style="background:lightgray;" |The Sleeping Beauty
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| style="background:lightgray;" |[[Briar Rose]] {{S|(mentioned)}}
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| style="background:lightgray;" |"[[The Thing You Love Most]]"
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|-
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| style="background:lightgray;" |[[Aurora]]
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| style="background:lightgray;" |"[[Broken]]"
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|-
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| style="background:lightgray;" |[[Princess (Homecoming)|Princess]]
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| style="background:lightgray;" |"[[Homecoming]]"
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|-
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| rowspan="3" style="background:lightgray;" |The Prince
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| style="background:lightgray;" |[[Prince Phillip]]
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| style="background:lightgray;" |"[[Broken]]"
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|-
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| style="background:lightgray;" |[[King Stefan]]
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| style="background:lightgray;" |"[[Enter the Dragon]]"
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|-
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| style="background:lightgray;" |[[Handsome Prince]]
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| style="background:lightgray;" |"[[Homecoming]]"
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|-
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| style="background:lightgray;" |The King
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| style="background:lightgray;" |[[King Stefan]]
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| style="background:lightgray;" |"[[Enter the Dragon]]"
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|-
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| style="background:lightgray;" |The Queen
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| style="background:lightgray;" |[[Briar Rose]] {{S|(mentioned)}}
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| style="background:lightgray;" |"[[Enter the Dragon]]"
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|}
   
 
==Locations Featured==
 
==Locations Featured==
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{| width="100%" style="background:gainsboro;text-align:center; "
*[[Aurora's Palace]]
 
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|-
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! width="30%" style="background:silver;" |Original Location
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! width="30%" style="background:silver;" |Adaptated as
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! width="30%" style="background:silver;" |First Featured in
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|-
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| style="background:lightgray;" |The Castle
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| style="background:lightgray;" |[[Aurora's Palace]]
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| style="background:lightgray;" |"[[Broken]]"
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|-
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|}
   
== Spells Featured ==
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==Spells Featured==
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{| width="100%" style="background:gainsboro;text-align:center; "
* [[Sleeping Curse|The Wicked Fairy's Curse]]
 
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|-
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! width="30%" style="background:silver;" |Original Location
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! width="30%" style="background:silver;" |Adaptated as
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! width="30%" style="background:silver;" |First Featured in
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|-
 
| style="background:lightgray;" |The Wicked Fairy's Curse
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| style="background:lightgray;" |[[Sleeping Curse]]
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| style="background:lightgray;" |"[[Broken]]"
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|}
   
 
== Items Featured ==
 
== Items Featured ==
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{| width="100%" style="background:gainsboro;text-align:center; "
* [[Spinning Wheels]]
 
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|-
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!width="30%" style="background:silver;"|Original Iten
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!width="30%" style="background:silver;"|Adapted as
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!width="30%" style="background:silver;"|First Featured in
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|-
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| style="background:lightgray;"|Spinning Wheels
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| style="background:lightgray;"|[[Spinning Wheels]]
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| style="background:lightgray;"|"[[Broken]]"
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|}
   
 
==References==
 
==References==
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{{Reflist}}
{{Reflist}} {{Wikipedia}} {{StoriesGuide}} {{DISPLAYTITLE:"Sleeping Beauty"}} [[es:La bella durmiente]]
 
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{{Wikipedia|Sleeping Beauty}}
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{{StoriesGuide}}
 
{{DISPLAYTITLE:"Sleeping Beauty"}} [[es:La bella durmiente]]

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This article focuses on the fairytale, "Sleeping Beauty".
For the film, see "Sleeping Beauty (Film)".
For the first Enchanted Forest character known as Sleeping Beauty, see Briar Rose.
For the second, see Aurora.



"Sleeping Beauty", also known as "La Belle au bois dormant", is a fairytale featured on ABC's Once Upon a Time. It was written by French author Charles Perrault and incorporated in the book "Stories or Fairy Tales from Past Times with Morals" in 1697. Another version of this story was written by the German authors, The Brothers Grimm, under the title "Little Briar Rose".

Plot

Perrault's version

A King and Queen longing to have children do everything in their power to conceive but are unable to do so. After some time, the Queen gives birth to a baby girl and both she and her husband prepare a banquet to take place on the day of the christening. Among the invited guests are seven fairies, who are selected to act as godmothers to the princess.

The day of the christening eventually arrives and, following the proceedings, the royals and their guests adjourn to the King's castle for the banquet. The seven fairies, upon taking their seats, are presented with golden caskets and bejeweled cutlery. At the same moment, an elderly fairy, who had not been seen in several years and presumed dead by all, enters the room. She is immediately given a place at the table but neither a casket nor cutlery. Taking offense at the perceived oversight, the fairy murmurs threats under her breath only to be overheard by the youngest of the seven fairies, who hides when the assemblage finishes eating. 

After the six other fairies bless the princess with the gifts of beauty, wit, grace, dance, song, and musicality, the Wicked Fairy curses her to prick her finger on a spindle and die. The youngest fairy immediately steps forward and uses her gift to partially reverse the curse, making it so that the princess will instead fall into a deep sleep that will last a hundred years and end when she is awoken by a king's son.

The King, determined to prevent the Wicked Fairy's prophecy from being fulfilled, bans all spinning wheels and spindles from the kingdom, proclaiming that anyone in possession of such objects shall be put to death. Years pass, however, and the prophecy is all but forgotten as the princess grows into a beautiful young woman.

One day, when the King and Queen are away on holiday, the Princess is exploring the castle when she comes across a room located at the top of a tower, where an old woman who has never heard of the King's edict sits spinning with a distaff. Thoroughly intrigued by the task, the Princess attempts to copy the old woman only to prick her finger on the spindle and fulfill the curse.

When several attempts to revive the Princess fail, the King and Queen return and carry her to one of the castle's bedrooms. The seventh fairy then appears, having learned about the tragedy from a dwarf with enchanted boots, and enacts a spell that causes everyone in the castle to fall asleep until the Wicked Fairy's curse is broken.

The seventh fairy proceeds to surround the King's castle with a forest of thick brambles so as to shield it from the outside world. Time passes and, by the time the hundred years comes to an end, another King has taken control of the kingdom.

One day, while hunting with his retinue, the new King's son sees the castle towering over the forest of brambles and interrogates his attendants. They all tell him varying accounts while a passing peasant recounts the story of the Sleeping Princess, to which the Prince becomes fascinated and rides into the forest.

Prepared to brave the brambles, the Prince is surprised to see them part when he approaches and even more surprised when he enters the castle. He eventually comes across the Sleeping Princess and, finding himself infatuated with her, falls to his knees.

At the same moment, the curse breaks, causing both the Princess and everyone else in the castle to wake up. The Prince and Princess engage in a conversation that lasts a long time and, after a long dinner, decide to get married in the castle's chapel.

After wedding the Princess in secret, the Prince continues to visit her and she bears him two children, Aurore (Dawn) and Jour (Day), unbeknown to his mother, who is of an ogre lineage. When the time comes for the Prince to ascend the throne, he brings his wife, children, and the talabutte ("Count of the Mount").

The Ogress Queen Mother sends the young Queen and the children to a house secluded in the woods and directs her cook to prepare the boy with Sauce Robert for dinner. The kind-hearted cook substitutes a lamb for the boy, which satisfies the Queen Mother. She then demands the girl but the cook this time substitutes a young goat, which also satisfies the Queen Mother. When the Ogress demands that he serve up the young Queen, the latter offers to slit her throat so that she may join the children that she imagines are dead.

While the Queen Mother is satisfied with a hind prepared with Sauce Robert in place of the young Queen, there is a tearful secret reunion of the Queen and her children. However, the Queen Mother soon discovers the cook's trick and she prepares a tub in the courtyard filled with vipers and other noxious creatures. The King returns in the nick of time and the Ogress, her true nature having been exposed, throws herself into the tub and is fully consumed. The King, young Queen, and children then live happily ever after.

Grimm version

The Brothers Grimm version of the fairytale ends when the prince wakes up Sleeping Beauty and does not include part two as found in Perrault's version. Instead of falling to his knees in front of the girl, the prince stoops down and gives her a kiss just as the curse breaks.

Show Adaptation

  • The first Sleeping Beauty gives birth to a daughter named Aurora, who later falls under the same Sleeping Curse her mother fell under.[1]
    • It is unknown for how long the first Sleeping Beauty slept, but it is known that Aurora slept for more than twenty-eight years.
  • The Wicked Fairy turns the Prince into a Yaoguai and exiles him to a foreign land in order to prevent him from waking Aurora up.

Characters Featured

Original Character Adaptated as First Featured in
The Wicked Fairy Maleficent "The Thing You Love Most"
Dragon "Homecoming"
The Sleeping Beauty Briar Rose (mentioned) "The Thing You Love Most"
Aurora "Broken"
Princess "Homecoming"
The Prince Prince Phillip "Broken"
King Stefan "Enter the Dragon"
Handsome Prince "Homecoming"
The King King Stefan "Enter the Dragon"
The Queen Briar Rose (mentioned) "Enter the Dragon"

Locations Featured

Original Location Adaptated as First Featured in
The Castle Aurora's Palace "Broken"

Spells Featured

Original Location Adaptated as First Featured in
The Wicked Fairy's Curse Sleeping Curse "Broken"

Items Featured

Original Iten Adapted as First Featured in
Spinning Wheels Spinning Wheels "Broken"

References

  1. Abrams, Natalie (October 18, 2012). Lightning Round 2: Once Upon a Time Bosses Answer Your Burning Questions!. TV Guide. “Was it Aurora's (Sarah Bolger) mother that Regina (Lana Parrilla) was referring to back in Season 1 who got the best of Maleficent (Kristin Bauer)?
    Edward Kitsis: Yes”
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