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The Brothers Grimm already toned the horror down. Sleeping Beauty was based on a tale called Sun, Moon, and Talia [0] which has the prince having sex and impreg
by Semaphor 5y ago
The Brothers Grimm already toned the horror down. Sleeping Beauty was based on a tale called Sun, Moon, and Talia [0] which has the prince having sex and impregnating her while she sleeps, and she only wakes up from her newborns sucking the splint out of her finger when she can’t find the breast.
[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun,_Moon,_and_Talia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun,_Moon,_and_Talia
- shrikant 5y agoMy mind is blown -- that is quite some story (all of it, not just the bits in your comment!), thanks for the link! :-O
- dimensionc132 5y agoSun, Moon, and Talia (Italian: Sole, Luna, e Talia) is an Italian literary fairy tale written by Giambattista Basile in his 1634 Guy was high on some drugs when he wrote this sh%t. Talk about messed up.
- ropapcpr 5y agoIt goes farther than that. "Early contributions to the tale include the medieval courtly romance Perceforest (published in 1528).[4] In this tale, a princess named Zellandine falls in love with a man named Troylus. Her father sends him to perform tasks to prove himself worthy of her, and while he is gone, Zellandine falls into an enchanted sleep. Troylus finds her and rapes her in her sleep; when their child is born, the child draws from her finger the flax that caused her sleep. She realizes from the ring Troylus left her that he was the father, and Troylus later returns to marry her.[5]"