I may have lived for a quarter of a century but the kiddish part of me still lives in my body and young heart. I love folklore and I have always loved it. I love fairy tales and sometimes I wish life is a fairy tale where everything ends happily after lots of trials and turbulence.
However, what would happen when we know the truth behind a sweet tale like Sleeping Beauty? I used to believe in the story that has been told and written in the children's books, and yes, I loved the story (although I still like Walt Disney's version of Cinderella best). I was shocked actually after knowing the truth. I know that there are a lot more of children's stories and nursery rhymes that do not suit the children and you just have to find out which. =) Below is the original version (unless they lied then only I lie too).
However, what would happen when we know the truth behind a sweet tale like Sleeping Beauty? I used to believe in the story that has been told and written in the children's books, and yes, I loved the story (although I still like Walt Disney's version of Cinderella best). I was shocked actually after knowing the truth. I know that there are a lot more of children's stories and nursery rhymes that do not suit the children and you just have to find out which. =) Below is the original version (unless they lied then only I lie too).
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Sleeping Beauty and her Rapist
Wise men warned the great King that his daughter Talia was in grave danger – there was poison in the palace’s flax. A ban was put on flax but as expected, Talia still ran across a splinter while spinning flax on the flax-spinning wheel. In great despair, the king placed her sleeping (or dead) body on a velvet clothe and left her in the forest.
Some time later, a rich nobleman was hunting in the woods when he ran across the abandoned body of Sleeping Beauty. Far from planting a kiss, the nobleman instead raped her sleeping body, from which resulted a pregnancy. Nine months later, Sleeping Beauty gave birth to two children (and named them Sun and Moon) and the forest fairies took care of them while Sleeping Beauty continued her slumber. Whilst placing the babes to Sleeping Beauty’s breasts, one of the children accidentally mistook her thumb for a nipple and sucked out the poison splinter. Talia awoke from her deep sleep.
Months later, the nobleman decided to return to the woods to have more sex with Sleeping Beauty’s body when to his surprise, he found her awake. The nobleman confesses that he raped her and they again had sex in the barn. The nobleman then returns home to his wife.
The nobleman’s wife found out about the sexual encounter and ordered the children be kidnapped and cooked alive. The cook prepared the fiendish disk and served it to the rich nobleman at his dinner. As the nobleman finished his meal, the wife boldly announced “you are eating what is your own!”. Alas, as it turns out, the cook had a soft heart and instead of killing and cooking the children, he substituted a goat instead. Talia and the children and her rapist new love interest lived happily ever after.
Source: http://www.altereddimensions.net/strange/SleepingBeauty.aspx
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