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"Sleeping Beauty" (French: La Belle au bois dormant, or The Beauty Sleeping in the Wood [1] [a]; ‹See Tfd› German: Dornröschen, or Little Briar Rose), also titled in English as The Sleeping Beauty in the Woods, 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.
Sun, Moon, and Talia. Sun, Moon, and Talia (Italian: Sole, Luna, e Talia) is an Italian literary fairy tale written by Giambattista Basile and published posthumously in the last volume of his 1634-36 work, the Pentamerone. Charles Perrault retold this fairy tale in 1697 as Sleeping Beauty, as did the Brothers Grimm in 1812 as Little Briar Rose.
Marie-Jeanne L'Héritier (niece) Charles Perrault (/ pɛˈroʊ / peh-ROH, US also / pəˈroʊ / pə-ROH, French: [ʃaʁl pɛʁo]; 12 January 1628 – 16 May 1703) was a French author and member of the Académie Française. He laid the foundations for a new literary genre, the fairy tale, with his works derived from earlier folk tales, published ...
Country. Germany. Published in. Grimms' Fairy Tales. " The Glass Coffin " is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm, tale number 163. [1] Andrew Lang included it in The Green Fairy Book as The Crystal Coffin. [2] It is Aarne-Thompson type 410, Sleeping Beauty. Another variant is The Young Slave.
Ballets by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. The Sleeping Beauty (Russian: Спящая красавица, romanized: Spyashchaya krasavitsa listen ⓘ) is a ballet in a prologue and three acts to music by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, his Opus 66, completed in 1889. It is the second of his three ballets and, at 160 minutes, his second-longest work in any ...
Prince Charming of Sleeping Beauty, a print drawing from the late-19th-century book Mein erstes Märchenbuch, published in Stuttgart, Germany. Prince Charming is a fairy tale stock character who comes to the rescue of a damsel in distress and must engage in a quest to liberate her from an evil spell.
Brunhild, also known as Brunhilda or Brynhild (Old Norse: Brynhildr [ˈbrynˌhildz̠], Middle High German: Brünhilt, Modern German: Brünhild or Brünhilde), is a female character from Germanic heroic legend. She may have her origins in the Visigothic princess and queen Brunhilda of Austrasia. In the Norse tradition, Brunhild is a shieldmaiden ...
Princess Aurora (goddaughter) Flora, Fauna, and Merryweather are the three good fairies in Walt Disney 's 1959 film Sleeping Beauty. They are characterized as Princess Aurora 's fairy godmothers and guardians, who appear at baby Aurora's christening to present their gifts to her. The three were voiced by Verna Felton, Barbara Jo Allen, and ...