ATU 410

“Sleeping Beauty in the Wood.” Histories or Tales of Past Times Written for Children Told By Mother Goose with Morals, Charles Perrault, edited by J. Saxon Childers, London: The Nonesuch Press., 1925, pp. 41-61.

Anonymous — Thu, 17 Nov 2022 22:25:37 +0000

“Sleeping Beauty in the Wood.” Histories or Tales of Past Times Written for Children Told By Mother Goose with Morals, Charles Perrault, edited by J. Saxon Childers, London: The Nonesuch Press., 1925, pp. 41-61. Anonymous (not verified) Thu, 11/17/2022 - 15:25

Tale Summary

There was once a King and Queen who finally bear a daughter after desperately trying to have a child for years. They invite all the fairies they can find within their kingdom to be godmothers, and they all (7) attend the girl’s christening and later celebrations. One, very old, fairy who was not invited because she was thought to be elsewhere, shows up during the feast, feeling slighted by the King and Queen. Another of the fairies fears she will cast a curse upon the child, so she hides behind a curtain to see what can be done. Each fairy takes turns bestowing gifts of beauty and grace upon the princess until the old fairy declares that the child’s hand will be pierced by a spindle and that she will die of the wound. The fairy who was hiding now appears to counteract this, making it so that the girl will only sleep for one hundred years, at the end of which, a king’s son will wake her. The King orders all spindles destroyed, however, when she is 15 or 16 years old, the princess meets an old woman who had never heard of this ban, pricks her hand on her spindle, and falls into a deep sleep. The fairy who counteracted the curse hears the news and arrives by dragon-drawn chariot, touching everyone in the castle, save the king and queen, with her magic wand to put them in a deep sleep as well, so that when the princess awakens she will not be alone. The King and Queen now leave the castle and put out a proclamation that no one is to go near it, and within a quarter of an hour, a vast number of trees grow up all around it. One day, after 100 years have passed, a prince was hunting nearby and asked the countrymen the story of the place, and one tells him how a beautiful princess has been asleep for one hundred years and waited for a king’s son to wake her. He goes there, and the thicket parts way for him to enter the castle, where he finds everyone, including the princess, asleep. He finds her to be very beautiful, and when she wakes up, they immediately fall in love and are married after supper (now that everyone else is awake, too). The next day, the prince returns to his father and tells him that he got lost, and so for two years, he lies to his parents even though he now has two children by the princess. His mother, the Queen, suspects that he has a lover, but the prince fears telling her the truth. This is because she is an Ogress, whom his father married for her riches, and she has the inclination to eat children. It is only when his father dies and he becomes lord and master that he openly declares his marriage. One summer, the king goes off to war and leaves the kingdom and the care of his wife and children to his mother, who brings them to a country house. She says to the clerk of the kitchen that she would like to eat the older child, named Morning, for dinner. The man is unable to kill the child and instead hides her, instead serving the Ogress a lamb. Eight days afterward, the Ogress demands the younger child, named Day. The clerk hides the little boy just like his sister. One evening, the Ogress says she would like to eat the young Queen. The clerk does not know how to deceive her, and approaches the Queen with a dagger, explaining what her mother-in-law requested. The young Queen encouraged him to do it so that she might again see her children, whom she thought must have died. The clerk explains that they are still alive and well-hid and that she will indeed see them again. Once again he deceives the Ogress. One evening, however, she overhears the children and their mother, and, figuring out she has been tricked, orders a large tub to be filled with toads, vipers, snakes, and other serpents, for the Queen, her children, the clerk, his wife, and his maid, to be thrown into. Just before their execution, the King returns home, and his Ogress mother throws herself headfirst into the tub.

Fairy Tale Title

Sleeping Beauty in the Wood

Fairy Tale Author(s)/Editor(s)

Charles Perrault, J. Saxon Childers

Fairy Tale Illustrator(s)

None listed

Common Tale Type

Sleeping Beauty

Tale Classification

ATU 410

Page Range of Tale

pp. 41-61

Full Citation of Tale

“Sleeping Beauty in the Wood.” Histories or Tales of Past Times Written for Children Told By Mother Goose with Morals, Charles Perrault, edited by J. Saxon Childers, London: The Nonesuch Press., 1925, pp. 41-61.

Original Source of the Tale

Charles Perrault

Tale Notes

This is the moral of the tale:

“To get a Husband rich, genteel and gay,
Of Humour sweet, some Time to stay,
Is natural enough, ‘tis true;
But then to wait a hundred Years,
And all that while asleep, appears
A Thing entirely new.
Now at this Time of Day,
Not one of all the Sex we see
To sleep with such profound Tranquility,
But yet this Fable seems to let us know,
That very often Hymen’s Blisses sweet,
Altho’ some tedious Obstacles they meet,
Which makes us for them a long While to stay,
Are not less happy for approaching slow;
And that we nothing lose by such Delay.
But warm’d by Nature’s lambent Fires,
The Sex so ardently aspires
Of this bless’d State the sacred Joy t’embrace,
And with such earnest Heart pursue ‘em:
I’ve not the Will, I must confess,
Nor yet the Power, nor fine Address,
To preach this Moral to ‘em.”

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Book Title

Histories or Tales of Past Times Written for Children Told By Mother Goose with Morals

Book Author/Editor(s)

Charles Perrault, J. Saxon Childers

Illustrator(s)

None listed

Publisher

The Nonesuch Press

Date Published

1925

Decade Published

1920-1929

Publisher City

London

Publisher Country

United Kingdom

Language

English

Rights

Public Domain

Digital Copy

Available at the CU Digital Library

Book Notes

This book includes morals at the end of each tale.

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“Sleeping Beauty.” Tales of Past Times Written for Children, Charles Perrault, illustrated by John Austen, New York: E.P Dutton and Co., 1923, pp. 19-30.

Anonymous — Tue, 08 Nov 2022 21:40:40 +0000

“Sleeping Beauty.” Tales of Past Times Written for Children, Charles Perrault, illustrated by John Austen, New York: E.P Dutton and Co., 1923, pp. 19-30. Anonymous (not verified) Tue, 11/08/2022 - 14:40

Charles Perrault

Tale Summary

Once upon a time, a King and Queen finally bear a daughter after desperately trying to have a child for years. They invite all the fairies they can find within their kingdom to be godmothers, and they all (7) attend the girl’s christening and later celebrations. One, very old, fairy was forgotten, and shows up during the feast, feeling slighted. Another of the fairies fears she will cast a curse upon the child, so she hides behind a curtain to see what can be done. Each fairy takes turns bestowing gifts of beauty and grace upon the princess until the old fairy declares that the child’s hand will be pierced by a spindle and that she will die of the wound. The fairy who was hiding now appears to counteract this, making it so that the girl will only sleep for one hundred years, at the end of which, a king’s son will wake her. The King orders all spindles destroyed, however, when she is 15 or 16, the princess meets an old woman who had never heard this, pricks her hand on her spindle, and falls into a deep sleep. The fairy who counteracted the curse hears the news and arrives in a dragon-drawn chariot, touching everyone in the castle, except for the king and queen, with her magic wand to put them in a deep sleep as well. As a hundred years pass, people begin to forget the castle, in part because a thick hedge grows around it. One day, a prince was hunting nearby and asked the countrymen the story of the place, and one tells him how a beautiful princess has been asleep for one hundred years and waits for a king’s son to wake her. He pushes through the thicket into the castle, where he finds everyone, including the princess, asleep. He finds her to be very beautiful, and when she wakes up, they immediately fall in love and are married after supper (now that everyone else is awake, too). The next day, the prince returns to his father and tells him that he got lost, and so for two years, he lies to his parents even though he now has two children by the princess. His mother, the Queen, suspects that he has a lover, but the prince fears telling her the truth. This is because she is an Ogress, whom his father married for her riches, and she has an inclination to eat children. It is only when his father dies and he becomes lord and master that he openly declares his marriage. One summer, the king goes off to war and leaves the kingdom and the care of his wife and children to his mother, who brings them to a country house. She says to the clerk of the kitchen that she would like to eat the older child, named Morning, for dinner. The man is unable to kill the child and instead hides her, instead serving the Ogress a lamb. Eight days afterward, the Ogress demands the younger child, named Day. The clerk hides the little boy just like his sister. One evening, the Ogress says she would like to eat the young Queen. The clerk does not know how to deceive her, and approaches the Queen with a dagger, explaining what her mother-in-law requested. The young Queen encouraged him to do it so that she might again see her children, whom she thought must have died. The clerk explains that they are still alive and well-hid and that she will indeed see them again. Once again he deceives the Ogress. One evening, however, she overhears the children and their mother, and, figuring out she has been tricked, orders a large tub to be filled with toads, vipers, snakes, and other serpents, for the Queen, her children, the clerk, his wife, and his maid, to be thrown into. Just before their execution, the King returns home, and his Ogress mother throws herself headfirst into the tub.

Fairy Tale Title

Sleeping Beauty

Fairy Tale Author(s)/Editor(s)

Charles Perrault

Fairy Tale Illustrator(s)

John Austen

Common Tale Type

Sleeping Beauty

Tale Classification

ATU 410

Page Range of Tale

pp. 19-30

Full Citation of Tale

“Sleeping Beauty.” Tales of Past Times Written for Children, Charles Perrault, illustrated by John Austen, New York: E.P Dutton and Co., 1923, pp. 19-30.

Original Source of the Tale

Charles Perrault

Tale Notes

The ‘gifts’ given to the princess by the fairies are these: She is the most beautiful person in the world, she has the wit of an angel, she has a wonderful grace in all that she does, she dances perfectly well, she sings like a nightingale, she can play all kinds of music perfectly.

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Book Title

Tales of Past Times Written for Children

Book Author/Editor(s)

Charles Perrault

Illustrator(s)

John Austen

Publisher

E.P Dutton and Co.

Date Published

1923

Decade Published

1920-1929

Publisher City

New York

Publisher Country

United States

Language

English

Rights

Public Domain

Digital Copy

Available at the CU Digital Library

Book Notes

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"The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood." Fairy Tales from France, William Trowbridge Larned, New York: P.F. Volland Company, 1920.

Anonymous — Fri, 01 Apr 2022 20:51:54 +0000

"The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood." Fairy Tales from France, William Trowbridge Larned, New York: P.F. Volland Company, 1920. Anonymous (not verified) Fri, 04/01/2022 - 14:51

William Trowbridge Larned

Tale Summary

A king and a queen finally have a babe. They throw a feast in the child's honor and invite all seven fairies. To commemorate the importance of the fairies, they set out plates of gold and silverware inlaid with rubies. However, an old witch shows up. She was not invited because everyone thought that she was either dead or enchanted. The king offers her his own plate, but she takes her lack of invitation as a slight and starts grumbling. When it comes her time to bestow a gift, she wills that the princess will strike her thumb and fall down dead. The youngest fairy tempers the wish and decrees that the princess will sleep for a hundred years instead. The princess grows up to be accomplished and happy. One day, she starts exploring the castle and climbs to the top of a set of very tall stairs where she finds an old woman spinning. She pricks her finger and falls down asleep. This old woman is the wicked fairy, who wants to make sure the prophecy comes true. The young fairy comes and enchants everyone but the king and queen to fall asleep to keep the princess company. A thicket of trees grows up around the palace in order to shield it from the eyes of any passing busybody. A prince comes along one hundred years later, and finds himself curious about the castle. He parts the brambles and enters the wood towards the castle because he feels he might be the prince that sleeping beauty has been waiting for. He finds her and wakes her up with a kiss to her forehead. The whole court wakes up, and the prince and princess are married happily ever after.

Fairy Tale Title

The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood

Fairy Tale Author(s)/Editor(s)

William Trowbridge Larned

Fairy Tale Illustrator(s)

John Rae

Common Tale Type

Sleeping Beauty

Tale Classification

ATU 410

Page Range of Tale

Book pages are unnumbered. In the linked digital copy, PDF pages 13-30

Full Citation of Tale

"The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood." Fairy Tales from France, William Trowbridge Larned, New York: P.F. Volland Company, 1920.

Original Source of the Tale

Charles Perrault

Tale Notes

This version of the tale is very sweet and appropriate for small children. The prince only kisses the princess's forehead in this version. In addition, this version of the tale is quite detailed, and has a splendid description of every event that transpires. This is typical of French tales, like this one by Charles Perrault, that were written in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.

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Book Title

Fairy Tales from France

Book Author/Editor(s)

William Trowbridge Larned

Illustrator(s)

John Rae

Publisher

P.F. Volland Company

Date Published

1920

Decade Published

1920-1929

Publisher City

New York

Publisher Country

United States

Language

English

Rights

Public Domain

Digital Copy

Available at the CU Digital Library

Book Notes

None

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“The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood.” The Blue Fairy Book, edited by Andrew Lang, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1889, pp. 54-63.

Anonymous — Mon, 29 Nov 2021 17:53:01 +0000

“The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood.” The Blue Fairy Book, edited by Andrew Lang, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1889, pp. 54-63. Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 11/29/2021 - 10:53

Andrew Lang

Tale Summary

A king and queen have a daughter and invite all the fairies to come and bestow a gift on the princess. There is one old fairy who has not been invited and shows up to the gathering unannounced saying that the princess will die when she pricks her finger on a spindle. One good fairy hid so that she may give her gift last and gifts the princess a rest for one hundred years which will also affect some of the workers in the castle. A prince, from a different family, comes upon the castle and wakes her from her sleep; they marry that evening. The prince does not tell his parents, the King, and the queen, of his marriage or children because the queen is an Ogress and has trouble suppressing the Ogreish tendency to eat people. After the King (his father) dies, the prince becomes king and engages in a battle that takes him away from home. While away his mother asks her cook to prepare each child and the princess so that she may eat them, but the cook instead serves her goats and a hind. When the Queen finds out she has been tricked, she arranges a tub full of various snakes and toads to be brought before her and decides to throw the princess, her grandchildren, the cook, and his family into the tub to be devoured. At the last minute, the King returns, and his mother throws herself into the tube of snakes and dies. The King is sad but feels comforted by his wife and children.

Fairy Tale Title

The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood

Fairy Tale Author(s)/Editor(s)

Andrew Lang

Fairy Tale Illustrator(s)

George Percy Jacomb Hood
Henry Justice Ford

Common Tale Type

Sleeping Beauty

Tale Classification

ATU 410

Page Range of Tale

pp. 54-63

Full Citation of Tale

“The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood.” The Blue Fairy Book, edited by Andrew Lang, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1889, pp. 54-63.

Original Source of the Tale

Charles Perrault

Tale Notes

In this Sleeping Beauty tale, based on Charles Perrault’s version, the princess is awakened by just the presence of the prince. Also, in this tale the prince's mother, the queen, is "of the race of Ogres", which like to eat little children. The prince hides his marriage and children from his mother because he is scared she will eat them. The queen tries to eat the children and the princess but the cook feeds her goats instead. In the end, the queen ends up taking her own life by jumping into a pit of toads, vipers and snakes of all sorts that devour her. There are three black and white illustrations depicting: the newborn princess in her cradle as the old woman curses her; the prince making his way though the hedge; and Little Day, Sleeping Beauty’s son, fencing with a monkey.

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Book Title

The Blue Fairy Book

Book Author/Editor(s)

Andrew Lang

Illustrator(s)

George Percy Jacomb Hood
Henry Justice Ford

Publisher

Longmans, Green, and Co.

Date Published

1889

Decade Published

1880-1889

Publisher City

London

Publisher Country

United Kingdom

Language

English

Rights

Public Domain

Digital Copy

Available at the Internet Archive

Book Notes

None

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Brothers Grimm. “The Sleeping Beauty.” A Selection from Grimm’s Fairy Tales, illustrated by Gilbert James, London: Siegle, Hill and Co., [c. 1900], pp. 31-42.

Anonymous — Mon, 29 Nov 2021 17:06:14 +0000

Brothers Grimm. “The Sleeping Beauty.” A Selection from Grimm’s Fairy Tales, illustrated by Gilbert James, London: Siegle, Hill and Co., [c. 1900], pp. 31-42. Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 11/29/2021 - 10:06

Brothers Grimm

Tale Summary

This tale starts with the princess being born and all of the fairies presenting her with birthday wishes. One fairy, who had not been invited to the party, cursed her and said that during her fifteenth year she would prick her finger and fall asleep for 100 years. Another fairy, who had not yet bestowed her blessing, said she would not die but would fall asleep. When she finally pricked her finger at fifteen, the entire kingdom fell asleep. Princes from all over the world tried to get into the kingdom to wake the princess, but they would die in the thorns surrounding the kingdom. Finally, after 100 years, the prince who would win her heart walked up to the fence with all of the dead corpses in its branches, and the plants on the fence opened for the prince to walk through. He kissed her and the entire kingdom woke up. They lived happily ever after.

Fairy Tale Title

The Sleeping Beauty

Fairy Tale Author(s)/Editor(s)

Brothers Grimm

Fairy Tale Illustrator(s)

Gilbert James

Common Tale Type

Sleeping Beauty

Tale Classification

ATU 410

Page Range of Tale

pp. 31-42

Full Citation of Tale

Brothers Grimm. “The Sleeping Beauty.” A Selection from Grimm’s Fairy Tales, illustrated by Gilbert James, London: Siegle, Hill and Co., [c. 1900], pp. 31-42.

Original Source of the Tale

Brothers Grimm

Tale Notes

This is a simplified version of the tale that was clearly intended for children.

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Book Title

A Selection from Grimm’s Fairy Tales

Book Author/Editor(s)

Brothers Grimm

Illustrator(s)

Gilbert James

Publisher

Siegle Hill & Co; The H.B. Claflin Company

Date Published

1900

Decade Published

1900-1909

Publisher City

London
New York

Publisher Country

United Kingdom
United States

Language

English

Rights

Public Domain

Digital Copy

Available at the CU Digital Library

Book Notes

This book includes six tales, most of which are the Grimm Brothers' best known tales including Sleeping Beauty, The Frog Prince, Rumplestilskin, Hansel and Grethel, The Rabbit’s Bride, and The Shreds. The illustrations are simple but beautiful and a few pages are decorated with floral motifs. It is a very small book that appears adapted for children.

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"The Sleeping Beauty." The Allies’ Fairy Book, Intro. by Edmund Gosse London: William Heinemann, 1916, pp. 52-65.

Anonymous — Tue, 23 Nov 2021 17:49:51 +0000

"The Sleeping Beauty." The Allies’ Fairy Book, Intro. by Edmund Gosse London: William Heinemann, 1916, pp. 52-65. Anonymous (not verified) Tue, 11/23/2021 - 10:49

Edmund Gosse

Tale Summary

This tale follows the plot of Charles Perrault’s version, with Sleeping Beauty cursed by an evil fairy who had not been invited to her christening. Awoken by the prince, Sleeping Beauty marries him and bears him two children. The prince’s mother, an ogress, wishes to devour Beauty and her children, but her plan is foiled and she dies in a vat of poison snakes.

Fairy Tale Title

The Sleeping Beauty

Fairy Tale Author(s)/Editor(s)

Edmund Gosse

Fairy Tale Illustrator(s)

William Heinemann

Common Tale Type

Sleeping Beauty

Tale Classification

ATU 410

Page Range of Tale

pp. 52-65

Full Citation of Tale

The Sleeping Beauty." The Allies’ Fairy Book, Intro. by Edmund Gosse London: William Heinemann, 1916, pp. 52-65.

Original Source of the Tale

Charles Perrault

Tale Notes

This version of the tale has very beautiful illustrations by Arthur Rackham, including four black and white illustrations positioned throughout the text and one color plate depicting Sleeping Beauty in her bed. The black and white illustrations depict: the evil fairy, the old woman spinning, the castle surrounded by thorns, and an elf at the end of the tale.

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Book Title

The Allies' Fairy Book

Book Author/Editor(s)

Edmund Gosse

Illustrator(s)

Arthur Rackham

Publisher

William Heinemann and J.B. Lippincott Co.

Date Published

1916

Decade Published

1910-1919

Publisher City

London
Philadelphia

Publisher Country

United Kingdom
United States

Language

English

Rights

Public Domain

Digital Copy

Available at the Internet Archive

Book Notes

The Allies Fairy Book was published in 1916, in the midst of World War I. The goal of the book was to present one tale from each country fighting for the Allied Powers in the war.

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Brothers Grimm. "The Sleeping Beauty." Grimm’s Fairy Tales, illustrated by Walter Crane and E. H. Wehnert, Chicago: Donohue, Henneberry & Co., 1896.

Anonymous — Tue, 23 Nov 2021 16:53:14 +0000

Brothers Grimm. "The Sleeping Beauty." Grimm’s Fairy Tales, illustrated by Walter Crane and E. H. Wehnert, Chicago: Donohue, Henneberry & Co., 1896. Anonymous (not verified) Tue, 11/23/2021 - 09:53

Walter Crane

Tale Summary

The story begins with a frog announcing that the king and queen will have a child in a year’s time. After the birth, the king holds a great feast, inviting twelve of the thirteen wise women in his kingdom to gain favor for the child. After eleven of the twelve wise women have bestowed great gifts on the child, the uninvited thirteenth declares that the princess will be cursed to die by pricking herself with a spindle during her fifteenth year. Since the twelfth wise woman had not yet given her gift, she says that instead of death, the princess will fall into a deep slumber for a hundred years. The princess, Rosamond, pricks her finger in her fifteenth year and fulfills the prophecy, where she falls into a deep sleep along with the entire castle. On the day when Rosamond should awaken, a prince passes through the hedge witnessing the magical slumber the court is under and eventually finds himself next to the princess. He cannot contain himself and kisses her, whereupon Rosamond awakes along with the entire court. The prince and Rosamond get married and live happily together until the end.

Fairy Tale Title

The Sleeping Beauty

Fairy Tale Author(s)/Editor(s)

Brothers Grimm

Fairy Tale Illustrator(s)

Walter Crane
Edward Henry Wehnert

Common Tale Type

Sleeping Beauty

Tale Classification

ATU 410

Page Range of Tale

pp. 9-12

Full Citation of Tale

Brothers Grimm. "The Sleeping Beauty." Grimm’s Fairy Tales, illustrated by Walter Crane and E. H. Wehnert, Chicago: Donohue, Henneberry & Co., 1896.

Original Source of the Tale

Brothers Grimm

Tale Notes

There is one full-page black and white illustration of the prince about to wake the sleeping princess, as well as smaller illustrations including a historiated initial at the beginning of the tale. Unlike in many fairy tales, in this translation of the Grimms’ story, there is no justice carried out on the woman whom cursed the princess; she is never mentioned again.

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Book Title

Grimm’s Fairy Tales

Book Author/Editor(s)

Brothers Grimm

Illustrator(s)

Walter Crane
Edward Henry Wehnert

Publisher

Donohue, Henneberry & Co.

Date Published

1896

Decade Published

1890-1899

Publisher City

Chicago

Publisher Country

United States

Language

English

Rights

Public Domain

Link to Digital Copy

Available at the University of Florida Digital Library

Book Notes

None

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Perrault, Charles. "La Belle au Bois Dormant." Histoires, ou, Contes du temps passé, Amsterdam, Jacques Desbordes, 1700, pp. 1-34.

Anonymous — Tue, 23 Nov 2021 16:29:08 +0000

Perrault, Charles. "La Belle au Bois Dormant." Histoires, ou, Contes du temps passé, Amsterdam, Jacques Desbordes, 1700, pp. 1-34. Anonymous (not verified) Tue, 11/23/2021 - 09:29

Charles Perrault

Tale Summary

A king and queen, after much time, finally have a child, a baby girl. They invite all the fairies in the kingdom to be her godmothers. At the feast after the baptism, the seven fairy godmothers are each given a magnificent place setting made of gold and embellished with diamonds and rubies. One more fairy arrives unexpectedly, as she had been in hiding for over 50 years, and is welcomed at the table, but there is no place setting for her. Each fairy offers the child a great talent or quality, except the unexpected guest, who feels slighted. She declares that the girl will pierce her hand with a spindle and die. One of the invited fairies, expecting trouble, has saved her gift for last. She declares that, though she is not powerful enough to overturn the curse, she will amend it so that the girl will fall into an enchanted sleep rather than die, and after 100 years a prince will awaken her.

The King forbids spindles in the kingdom, but the Princess, after meeting an old spinning woman unaware of the edict, indeed fulfills the prediction. A dwarf with boots of seven lieuës (an ancient measure of distance) quickly travels a long distance to alert the Fairy, who arrives in an hour in a dragon-drawn carriage. She puts the Princess's cohort to sleep around her and surrounds the tower with a forest of spines.

After 100 years, a curious prince approaches the tower and the forest opens a path. He kneels before the sleeping Princess, who awakens, and all of the palace with her. They marry and have two children, a daughter named l'Aurore (dawn), and a son named le Jour (day). All the while, the prince has been hiding his union from his mother and father, because his mother is an ogress whom his father has married only for her wealth. After the death of the father, the Prince comes forward with his family to take his position as king. When he must leave for battle, his mother decides she wants to eat the children, as is the ogress's custom. She orders the butler to bring her l'Aurore in a sauce Robert, but he brings her a lamb instead. She next wants le Jour, but he brings her a young goat. Finally, she wants the young Queen. The butler tells the young Queen what has happened and that he has hidden the children at his own house, and they give the ogress a doe in the sauce. One day, the ogress hears the children and realizes she has been tricked, so orders the butler is thrown into a pit filled with toads and snakes. The King returns home unexpectedly, and the ogress throws herself into the pit headfirst.

Fairy Tale Title

La Belle au bois dormant

Fairy Tale Author(s)/Editor(s)

Charles Perrault

Fairy Tale Illustrator(s)

None listed

Common Tale Type

Sleeping Beauty

Tale Classification

ATU 410

Page Range of Tale

pp. 1-34

Full Citation of Tale

Perrault, Charles. "La Belle au Bois Dormant" Histoires, ou, Contes du temps passé, Amsterdam, Jacques Desbordes, 1700, pp. 1-34

Original Source of the Tale

Charles Perrault

Tale Notes

The Sleeping Beauty tale most known in the United States ends just after the awakening of the Princess (the Brothers Grimm version); this version has a second half that includes her children. The moral, included after the tale, is that one should not rush to marry, though Perrault concedes that he could not preach this to the sex with so much ardor to marry (le sexe avec tant d'ardeur).

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Book Title

Histoires, ou, Contes du temps passé

Book Author/Editor(s)

Charles Perrault

Illustrator(s)

None listed

Publisher

Jacque Desbordes

Date Published

1700

Decade Published

1700-1709

Publisher City

Amsterdam

Publisher Country

Netherlands

Language

French

Rights

Public Domain

Digital Copy

Available at the CU Digital Library

Book Notes

None

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Perrault, Charles. "The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood." Old French Fairy Tales, Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1899, pp. 328-341.

Anonymous — Mon, 23 Aug 2021 19:02:39 +0000

Perrault, Charles. "The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood." Old French Fairy Tales, Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1899, pp. 328-341. Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 08/23/2021 - 13:02

Charles Perrault

Tale Summary

Perrault’s version of Sleeping Beauty is quite different from versions popular today. When the king and queen fail to invite an elderly fairy to their daughter’s Christening, she arrives and curses the child. Another fairy, who had not yet bestowed her blessing on the child, states that when the princess wounds her hand on a spindle, she will fall asleep for 100 years, rather than die. While her parents are away, sixteen-year old Beauty discovers an old woman spinning and pricks her finger falling into a deep sleep. A fairy, summoned by a dwarf in seven league boots, returns to put the entire castle and all who work there under a sleeping spell and then. One hundred years later, a prince makes his way to the castle, falls in love with her after hearing her story, and enters Beauty’s bedroom just as she awakens. The two marry and have two children, Aurora and Apollo, but the prince does not tell his mother of his new family until two years later when the King dies. Perrault’s version differs from the versions popular today, because the second half of the tale includes the prince’s mother, who is an ogress. The Ogress Queen wishes to eat Beauty and her children while her son is away at war, but her plan is foiled by a kind cook who save the family and serves up various animals. At the end of the tale, the Queen commits suicide by diving into a vat of poisonous snakes when she had prepared to kill Beauty, the children, the cook, and his family.

Fairy Tale Title

The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood

Fairy Tale Author(s)/Editor(s)

Charles Perrault

Fairy Tale Illustrator(s)

None listed

Common Tale Type

Sleeping Beauty

Tale Classification

ATU 410

Page Range of Tale

pp. 328-341

Full Citation of Tale

Perrault, Charles. "The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood." Old French Fairy Tales, Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1899, pp. 328-341.

Original Source of the Tale

Charles Perrault

Tale Notes

Perrault’s version of the tale focuses more on the prince’s mother than on Sleeping Beauty. This translation of Perrault’s tale includes nine black and white illustrations. Except the scene of the fairies at the Christening which is a full page illustration, all of the images are smaller and embedded in the text of the tale. Instead of captions, there are phrases in italics that link the text to the images.

AV��ʪ and Curation

Olivia Gold, 2020

Book Title

Old French Fairy Tales

Book Author/Editor(s)

Charles Perrault, Madame D'Aulnoy, etc.

Illustrator(s)

"Two hundred illustrations by the most celebrated French artists"

Publisher

Little, Brown, and Company

Date Published

1899

Decade Published

1890-1899

Publisher City

Boston

Publisher Country

United States

Language

English

Rights

Public Domain

Digital Copy

Available at the CU Digital Library

Book Notes

None

Traditional

White

Chisholm, Louey. “The Sleeping Beauty.” In Fairyland: Tales Told Again, illustrated by Katharine Cameron, New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1904, pp. 84-88.

Anonymous — Tue, 27 Jul 2021 18:36:13 +0000

Chisholm, Louey. “The Sleeping Beauty.” In Fairyland: Tales Told Again, illustrated by Katharine Cameron, New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1904, pp. 84-88. Anonymous (not verified) Tue, 07/27/2021 - 12:36

Louey Chisholm Katharine Cameron

Tale Summary

This classic tale of Sleeping Beauty follows the story of a young princess whose seven fairy godmothers, gifted her beauty, good thoughts, kindness, the ability to dance like a fairy, sing like a nightingale, and play the harp. However, one wicked old fairy unwelcomingly granted that the child, at the age of 15, would prick her finger on a spindle and fall into a sleep. One of the fairies who had not yet given her gift, granted that the princess would not die but fall into a 100 year sleep. The girl grew up and possessed all the gifts. Eventually, she stumbled upon a spindle, pricked her finger, and she, along with her entire castle and everything inside and out, fell into a sleep. After 100 years, and the son of the new King finds the castle and makes his way up to the chamber in the turret where the Princess lies. As a wise old man said legend had it that she may only be woken by the Prince who will marry her, the young Prince kissed the Princess and she awoke immediately. The rest of the castle and people are restored and the two fall in love. Very soon after, they were married and lived happily ever after.

Fairy Tale Title

The Sleeping Beauty

Fairy Tale Author(s)/Editor(s)

Louey Chisholm

Fairy Tale Illustrator(s)

Katharine Cameron

Common Tale Type

Sleeping Beauty

Tale Classification

ATU 410

Page Range of Tale

pp. 84-88

Full Citation of Tale

Chisholm, Louey. “The Sleeping Beauty.” In Fairyland: Tales Told Again, illustrated by Katharine Cameron, New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1904, pp. 84-88.

Original Source of the Tale

Charles Perrault

Tale Notes

This Sleeping Beauty tale is concise, easy to read, contains little character development, and is very clean (no gruesomeness).

AV��ʪ and Curation

Jasmin Breakstone, 2020

Book Title

In Fairyland: Tales Told Again

Book Author/Editor(s)

Louey Chisholm

Illustrator(s)

Katharine Cameron

Publisher

T. C. & E. C. Jack and G.P. Putnam's Sons

Date Published

1904

Decade Published

1900-1909

Publisher City

London
New York

Publisher Country

United Kingdom
United States

Language

English

Rights

Public Domain

Digital Copy

Available at the CU Digital Library

Book Notes

This book contains a preface that introduces a framing narrative, however, the narrative is never addressed again throughout the book. Through the preface, in which a young girl named Sunflower speaks with her mother, we discover that the tales contained within this book are targeted towards children. Sunflower praises her mother’s story telling because she “leave[s] out all the not interesting bits you know and make me understand what the story is all about.”

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