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| caption = The princess comes upon an old woman, spinning with her spindle. |
| caption = The princess comes upon an old woman, spinning with her spindle. |
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| central theme = Self-fulfilling prophecies and the risks of angering the wrong person |
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| elevator pitch = At the christening of a young princess, she receives a curse of eternal slumber when she pricks with a spindle. Which comes to happen despite the efforts of everyone arund her. |
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| genre = Folk tales |
| genre = Folk tales |
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| publication date = between 1330 and 1344 |
| publication date = between 1330 and 1344 |
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Many years later, a prince (sometimes a king) makes his way into the now-overgrown sleeping castle, and finds the princess. He wakes her (iconically with a [[True Love's Kiss|kiss]]) and they [[Love At First Sight|fall in love]] and marry. |
Many years later, a prince (sometimes a king) makes his way into the now-overgrown sleeping castle, and finds the princess. He wakes her (iconically with a [[True Love's Kiss|kiss]]) and they [[Love At First Sight|fall in love]] and marry. |
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In the original version which this was based on, called "[[Sun, Moon, |
In the original version which this was based on, called "[[Sun, Moon, and Talia]]", the prince has [[Rape Is Love|sexual intercourse with her]] and her twin children she gives birth to suck the thorn out of her finger. |
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Unfortunately, [[God Save Us From the Queen|his step-mother]], who has ogre blood, is jealous of the prince's new wife, and when the prince leaves on matters of state, she demands to have the princess' young children, and then the princess herself, killed and cooked for her supper. The cook manages to hide the unfortunate family and fool the queen with various cooked animals instead. This all comes to naught when the queen hears the princess and her kids at the cook's house, however, and she prepares a big pot of nasty, venemous creatures to kill them. Fortunately, the prince arrives home [[Big Damn Heroes|just in time]], and the queen falls into the pot of nasties, dying a [[Karmic Death]] and leaving everyone to live [[Happily Ever After]]. (In an alternate ending, the queen, thinking wife and kids are safely dead, realizes her son may not be so happy about that and tries to pass herself off as the princess. The prince works it out by [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|asking the marriage bed.]] Queen is duly put to death and prince is reunited with princess and kids.) |
Unfortunately, [[God Save Us From the Queen|his step-mother]], who has ogre blood, is jealous of the prince's new wife, and when the prince leaves on matters of state, she demands to have the princess' young children, and then the princess herself, killed and cooked for her supper. The cook manages to hide the unfortunate family and fool the queen with various cooked animals instead. This all comes to naught when the queen hears the princess and her kids at the cook's house, however, and she prepares a big pot of nasty, venemous creatures to kill them. Fortunately, the prince arrives home [[Big Damn Heroes|just in time]], and the queen falls into the pot of nasties, dying a [[Karmic Death]] and leaving everyone to live [[Happily Ever After]]. (In an alternate ending, the queen, thinking wife and kids are safely dead, realizes her son may not be so happy about that and tries to pass herself off as the princess. The prince works it out by [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|asking the marriage bed.]] Queen is duly put to death and prince is reunited with princess and kids.) |
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