The evil queen from sleeping beauty. Unknown versions of fairy tales with scenes of violence that Disney toned down

However, the most famous version was the story of a beauty sleeping in the forest from the collection “Tales of Mother Goose” by Charles Perrault. Great storyteller wrote it in 1697.

Charles Perrault was the first to introduce into the legend a handsome prince, whose kiss breaks the spell of enchanted sleep. So there were three main characters in the fairy tale: the witch, the princess and the prince.

About "Sleeping Beauty"

For the first time on screen, the sorceress Maleficent, the princess and the prince were shown by Disney in 1959. The cartoon was called “Sleeping Beauty” and became the 16th animated project of the Disney film studio.

Disney's animated film Sleeping Beauty stands in stark contrast to the Brothers Grimm and Charles Perrault's versions of classic fairy tales. The main contradiction is that in terms of total volume the German and french fairy tales take up about three pages. Disney studio writers needed to create a film that was 80 minutes long.

Filming took about ten years and more than $6 million was spent. The film became the most expensive of all that had been shot at the Disney studio up to that time.

The cartoon got its due musical accompaniment, based on P. I. Tchaikovsky’s music for the ballet “The Sleeping Beauty”. In particular, 2 songs “Once upon a dream” and “I wonder” are based on a waltz-allegro. It is the music, organically woven into the course of the narrative, that creates an allusion to medieval life of the 14th century.

Still from the cartoon "Sleeping Beauty"

About Maleficent

Filming began on June 11, 2012 at the famous English studio Pinewood Studios. Most of the film was filmed on the sites of this studio. Over the course of five months, there were six pavilions, several square kilometers of outdoor sites, as well as some other production areas.

About 40 decorated areas were created for filming - starting from a small room of 3x3 meters and ending with a large hall with an area of ​​464 m2.

One of the natural sites was an ancient castle - an exact replica of the majestic building, both inside and outside, which the animators drew in 1959. The floor was covered with real marble slabs, and the interior used genuine antiques.

It took 250 builders and 20 artists about 14 weeks to build and decorate the site.

The scenery of the nondescript house in which Aurora spent her childhood was built on location at the London film studio Pinewood Studios. The house itself was made of timber, and the roof was thatched by hand using the technology used by professional roofers. In the whole of Great Britain there are no more than 1,000 specialists who earn money from such an exotic craft.

About fairy makeup

The prosthetic makeup team was led by seven-time Oscar winner Rick Baker. Several specialists worked exclusively on Maleficent's false horns and ears. Other makeup artists spent several hours each morning applying makeup to the remaining characters.

Baker and his assistants sculpted three different sets of horns, inspired by the original design.

The horns were made of polyurethane, a fairly light but very durable material.

To ensure that the plastic extensions exactly matched the curves of Angelina Jolie's face, the make-up artists first made a cast of the actress's head and cast a plaster bust. It was subsequently used to adjust the rubber pads on the cheekbones and ears. The procedure for applying complex plastic makeup took about four hours every day.

Still from the movie "Maleficent" Photo: WDSSPR

About fairy costumes and spinning wheels

Costume designer Anna Sheppard and her team are literally hand-crafted.

Angelina Jolie worked a lot with professional hatters, selecting a headdress design that would hide her heroine's horns. Six different hats were designed, including a summer version made from python skin. When Maleficent appeared at the christening, her horns were covered with a headdress that emphasized the unnatural whiteness of her skin.

Prop designer David Balfour assembled dozens of spinning wheels for the scene in which the king imposes a massive ban on the use of spindles throughout the country. The spinning wheel is the only key element of the tale that has been repeated in all variations, from the very first legends to the present day. Pricking a finger with a spindle meant for all the princesses to fall into a deep, uninterrupted sleep.

Still from the movie "Maleficent" Photo: WDSSPR

About actors and consultants

Sam Riley, who played the werewolf Diaval, rehearsed the movements that should be characteristic of a raven under the guidance of special trainers. Riley admits that the hours he spent with the instructors were the most embarrassing of his entire career. acting career. He felt especially awkward when he had to run around the room, waving his arms and trying to croak. Even in human form, Riley as Diaval had animal features - crow feathers stuck out in his hair, and his eyes were completely black contact lenses.

Played by Imelda Staunton, Juno Temple and Lesley Manville, performance capture technology was used. According to the plot, the height of the heroines did not exceed half a meter, but all the nuances of facial expressions were recorded and conveyed with the utmost care. The visual effects team used 150 markers attached to each actress's face to convey the slightest grimaces of the digitized characters. The fairies turned out to be very comical - with large heads and wide eyes. Many other proportions were also purposefully violated.

Moscow is a city of active, enterprising, working, business women. And at the same time, in Moscow there is a huge number of “sleeping beauties”.

Do you remember the fairy tale about the sleeping beauty from childhood?

“Sleeping Beauty is a princess who was bewitched by an evil witch. The princess slept for 100 years, according to the witch's prediction, and everything around her slept, remaining unchanged: people, castle, objects. The castle was surrounded by thorny impassable thickets-fence and a large dense dark forest. One day, while hunting, the prince was driving through the forest and came to the place where the castle stood, and because... 100 years passed on this very day—the thorny thickets opened and he was able to go inside.
There the prince saw the sleeping princess, fell in love, kissed her - and then she and everyone around her came to life and woke up. The prince and princess got married, and together they lived happily ever after..."

But this all happens in a fairy tale. What do we have in real life?

In real life, we meet many women who are outwardly very attractive, energetic, and successful. But at the same time, their inner Woman, the feminine soul, sleeps soundly, deep sleep…
Sometimes female soul dreams, beautiful and pleasant... He dreams, dreams, but does not wake up.
And most importantly, he avoids seeing reality. Avoids showing activity and her feminine strength and power in relationships with men.

What is the “sleeping beauty” syndrome?
-The sleeping beauty dreams of love, of the man of her dreams, but...does nothing to make her dream come true.
-May feel insecure as a Woman. She believes that she cannot influence relationships with men, that little depends on her.
-As a rule, the sleeping beauty hopes that someday everything will turn out well, she just needs to meet a “suitable” man. And then a woman’s happiness will come on its own, without her efforts and actions.
-She can engage in constant self-improvement (figure, diet, facial correction, wardrobe, outlook, success, etc.). According to principle: When I become good enough, the prince will definitely appear!
-She often refuses to meet those men who are trying to attract her attention, under the following pretexts: I didn’t like him, he said the wrong thing, he wasn’t active enough, I’m not worthy of him - anyway, then he will reject me and I will suffer, etc.
-Or she genuinely doesn’t notice men’s attention to her.
- Such a woman works a lot or devotes a lot of time and effort to some other activity: caring for loved ones, studying, career, communicating with friends, shopping, etc.
The bulk of her energy is spent not on building relationships with men, but on resolving other issues.
-Her attention begins to be occupied by thoughts that There are no normal men, all valuable specimens have already been taken over. Maybe I should stop hoping, nothing will work out anyway? And then the inner woman falls asleep forever, without hope of waking up.
-The most dangerous thing is if a woman decides: female happiness is not for me.

How does this syndrome develop?
Let’s imagine that a woman’s personality structure has at least 3 parts:
-female/feminine part (inner Woman)
-male/masculine (her Animus, “the embodiment of all masculine psychological tendencies in the woman’s psyche”)
-neutral, asexual Id (has intelligence, practical life skills, functions at home and at work)

The Sleeping Beauty Inner Woman is usually weak, insecure, or traumatized by past love experiences or early childhood events.
This part of her personality either did not have time to wake up and bloom in full force. Or she chose to fall asleep and not manifest herself, but simply passively wait for someone who would save her and wake her up to life...
As a rule, the “sleeping beauty” has an It that is awake and controls her life. Then the woman is perceived by others as psychologically asexual.
She perceives herself as an employee, a leader, a friend, a daughter, a mother, a sister, a colleague... It’s often not a woman’s turn.
And life is pushing her towards this. big city with its rhythm and tasks. The criterion for choosing clothes is comfort. At work there is a dress code, you need to be a genderless, well-functioning cog, at home you need to be a daughter or mother, in life there are a lot of problems and matters that need to be solved. There’s no time for the inner Woman here, there’s no time, there’s a lot to do...
In some women, in addition to the id, the animus is also very active. A woman, in the course of her life and career, struggling with difficulties, can fly into a strong identification with her Animus, give it power—and then she is perceived as a “man in a skirt.” In this case, it often happens that men, attracted by a charming, flirtatious, feminine appearance, they fly to such a woman like flies on honey - having flown closer and starting to communicate, they meet a fellow man under this feminine shell... And this inner man can also be very aggressive and competitive, he begins to compare himself with an unlucky admirer: who is smarter, who is more important, cooler, who has more...
Further options for the development of events are possible. But more often than not, the fan, having recovered from the shock, quietly crawls back.

Such a “sleeping beauty” (whose inner Woman has fallen asleep) passively waits for the moment to come when that handsome prince appears in her life, who, seeing how beautiful she is in her deep sleep, will love her and kiss her. And then she will feel a real woman... Everything around will become bright, alive, warm - and then they will live together happily ever after. And she doesn’t have to make any effort, everything will happen on its own...
But, thinking in this way, she makes 2 important mistakes, thinking that the prince:
-will fall in love only if he sees the beauty sleeping (and not awake and active)
-that we must continue to sleep (otherwise the prince will not appear and fall in love).

At the same time, sleeping beauties forget that: there are not enough princes for everyone, on the way a prince can be grabbed by a more active girl, and it is only in a fairy tale that you can maintain your beauty and youth unchanged for 100 years.
But for the prince, sleeping beauty is a relative of his great-great-great-grandmother? And in a few years the young princes will be looking not for their sleeping great-great, but for their peers...

What happens in reality to the princes while the beauty is sleeping?
Modern princes have a hard time. To “make a fairy tale come true,” the prince must:
-Overcome obstacles (dense thickets, thorns). Not every modern man wants to deal with difficulties at all—why go into such an impenetrable forest? It is more convenient to walk along the usual paved paths. Or in general it’s better to sit at home, warm and comfortable. If you were still in a car, sitting behind the wheel and with air conditioning, you can’t drive a car into a dense forest!
-Don’t turn left on the road to the castle—there are a lot of temptations! Beautiful and brave girls walk in the forest, Amazons gallop, Little Red Riding Hoods sing their songs, there are fairies and sorceresses. Even Baba Yaga good fellows greets you: feeds you, gives you something to drink, washes you in the bathhouse. Each one captivates in its own way. There is something to distract yourself with.
-Fall in love with this beauty. But the prince may not like the sleeping beauty—well, she’s just not his type!
-Do what is expected of him. Suppose the prince liked the girl. Here he stands in front of the sleeping beauty and thinks: do I need this? What is her character like? I’ll break the spell, I know how—but it’s not written in the fairy tale how to put the spell back! One kiss and then a commitment for life! I'll go back, I won't wake him up, let him continue sleeping. She slept for 100 years and will sleep again. There will be another prince for her...

What do we want our prince to be like?
The answer to this question is known: kind, smart, strong, attractive, courageous, successful, enterprising, active, understanding me, generous, attentive, caring, broad-minded and highly intelligent, etc.
If the beauty does not see at least one of the listed qualities in the prince, it means that this is not a real prince! And then he won’t be able to kiss and wake her up!
And this prince, who did not pass the selection, will leave unsalted, and the beauty will continue her interrupted sleep and dreams of an ideal handsome prince and wonderful life with him….
In general, the chances of the fairy tale coming true are somehow slim...

U modern man, claiming to be a prince, the personality structure can also be divided into 3 parts:
-male/masculine part (inner Man)
-neutral, asexual Id (has intelligence, practical life skills, functions at work and at home, solves problems and tasks)
-Anima (“the embodiment of all feminine psychological tendencies in the male psyche, such as vague feelings and moods”).

Recently, a certain trend has been noticeable in Moscow, about which women are complaining :
“most men are passive”, “they do not behave like men”, “they have feminine characters", "they are not brave, enterprising and responsible, but flexible, indecisive, avoid responsibility, love to talk rather than act", "they have difficulty making decisions and do not want to take responsibility or take initiative", "at work 90 % of employees are men, of which only a few people with masculine character, the rest are either neutral or with feminine character", "if he meets with a masculine character, then he is a newcomer, and Muscovite men do not behave like men...”
And then we can assume that in men of this type the masculine part of the personality, the inner Man, is not sufficiently active and developed.
In everyday life and at work, in order to cope with tasks, the asexual Id is enough for them. Some men have a strong and active Anima, which largely determines their behavior.
It turns out that now we have many “sleeping princes” waiting for an active, feminine, self-confident woman to come and awaken their male part of their personality, the Man in a man, from sleep?!

Why did it happen that many potential princes fell asleep and turned into “sleeping handsome men”?
There are many reasons and they are different.
For example:
-absent father with strong masculinity
-lack of male behavior in the immediate environment
-dominant and overwhelming masculinity of the boy's mother
-egocentrism
- stuck at the teenage stage of personality development
-initiation as a man not completed in youth for the formation of a distinct male identity
-corporate cultures of business organizations and government agencies that suppress personal manifestations of employees, their initiative and activity
-fatigue from the demands and rhythm of life in a big city...

For a modern woman in this difficult situation, when the “sleeping beauty” strategy has stopped working for quite objective reasons: conditions and lifestyle have changed, men have changed...
- the main thing and the first thing: you need to wake up and see that there are men around and they are all different (including those with a strong masculine component).
-accept the truth that every person is the architect of his own happiness, including women’s
-change your strategy of behavior with men
-master different strategies attraction and dating
- pay attention to your inner Woman, develop your feminine part, femininity.
-clarify the relationship with your Animus, take away some of the power from it

A woman who wants to see a “real man” next to her has a choice of 2 paths:
1. attract a man with strong masculine character traits.
2. be able to awaken the Man in the “sleeping prince”.

The stronger and brighter the femininity in a woman, the more in touch she is with her inner Woman, the more men with a strong masculine part of their personality, with a “masculine character,” are attracted to her. It is usually the opposite that attracts and fascinates.
A woman with strong femininity, mastering the skill of influence and seduction, will be able to awaken the Man in a man. Even if this part of the personality is asleep or temporarily resting...
And then instead of the “sleeping beauty” and the “sleeping prince” there will be a Woman and a Man nearby.

Elena Kuzeeva is a psychotherapist, Gestalt therapist, author and presenter of the training series “Elena Kuzeeva’s School of Women’s Skills” at the Institute of Group and Family Psychology and Psychotherapy.

In the first edition of 1812 - that is, in the bloodiest and most terrible. Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, like Charles Perrault together with the Italian storyteller Giambattista Basile, the plots were not invented, but rewritten folk legends for subsequent generations. The primary sources make your blood run cold: graves, severed heels, sadistic punishments, rape and other “unfairytale” details. AiF.ru has collected original stories that should not be told to children at night.

Cinderella

It is believed that the earliest version of Cinderella was invented in Ancient Egypt: While the beautiful prostitute Phodoris was bathing in the river, an eagle stole her sandal and took it to the pharaoh, who admired the small size of the shoes and ended up marrying the harlot.

The Italian Giambattista Basile, who recorded a collection folk legends"Tale of Tales", everything is much worse. His Cinderella, or rather Zezolla, is not at all the unfortunate girl we know from Disney cartoons and children's plays. She didn’t want to endure humiliation from her stepmother, so she broke her stepmother’s neck with the lid of the chest, taking her nanny as an accomplice. The nanny immediately came to the rescue and became a second stepmother for the girl; in addition, she had six evil daughters; of course, the girl had no chance of killing them all. A chance saved the day: one day the king saw the girl and fell in love. Zezolla was quickly found by His Majesty's servants, but she managed to escape, dropping - no, not glass slipper! - a rough pianella with a cork sole, such as was worn by the women of Naples. The further scheme is clear: a nationwide search and a wedding. So the stepmother's killer became queen.

Actress Anna Levanova as Cinderella in the play “Cinderella” directed by Ekaterina Polovtseva at the Sovremennik Theater. Photo: RIA Novosti / Sergey Pyatakov

61 years after the Italian version, Charles Perrault released his tale. It was she who became the basis for all “vanilla” modern interpretations. True, in Perrault’s version, the girl is helped not by her godmother, but by her deceased mother: a white bird lives on her grave and grants wishes.

The Brothers Grimm also interpreted the plot of Cinderella in their own way: in their opinion, the poor orphan’s mischievous sisters should have gotten what they deserved. Trying to squeeze into the treasured shoe, one of the sisters cut off her toe, and the second cut off her heel. But the sacrifice was in vain - the prince was warned by the pigeons:

Look, look,
And the shoe is covered in blood...

These same flying warriors of justice eventually pecked out the sisters’ eyes—and that’s where the fairy tale ends.

Little Red Riding Hood

The story of a girl and a hungry wolf has been known in Europe since the 14th century. The contents of the basket varied depending on the location, but the story itself was much more unfortunate for Cinderella. Having killed the grandmother, the wolf not only eats her, but prepares a tasty treat from her body, and a certain drink from her blood. Hidden in bed, he watches as Little Red Riding Hood eagerly devolves her own grandmother. Grandma's cat tries to warn the girl, but she also dies terrible death(the wolf throws heavy wooden shoes at her). This apparently does not bother Little Red Riding Hood, and after a hearty dinner she obediently undresses and goes to bed, where the wolf is waiting for her. In most versions, this is where it all ends - they say, serves the stupid girl right!

Illustration in the fairy tale “Little Red Riding Hood”. Photo: Public Domain / Gustave Doré

Subsequently, Charles Perrault composed an optimistic ending for this story and added a moral for everyone whom strangers invite into their bed:

Sleeping Beauty

Illustration from the fairy tale “Sleeping Beauty”. Photo: Commons.wikimedia.org / AndreasPraefcke

He promised the girl mountains of gold and again left for his kingdom, where, by the way, his legal wife was waiting for him. The king's wife, having learned about the homewrecker, decided to exterminate her along with her entire brood and at the same time punish her unfaithful husband. She ordered the babies to be killed and made into meat pies for the king, and the princess to be burned. Just before the fire, the beauty’s screams were heard by the king, who came running and burned not her, but the annoying evil queen. And finally, good news: the twins were not eaten, because the cook turned out to be normal person and saved the children by replacing them with a lamb.

The defender of maiden honor, Charles Perrault, of course, greatly changed the fairy tale, but could not resist the “moral” at the end of the story. His parting words read:

Snow White

The brothers Grimm filled the fairy tale about Snow White with interesting details that seem wild in our humane times. The first version was published in 1812 and expanded in 1854. The beginning of the fairy tale does not bode well: “One snowy winter day, the queen sits and sews by a window with an ebony frame. By chance she pricks her finger with a needle, drops three drops of blood and thinks: “Oh, if only I had a baby, white as snow, red as blood and black as ebony.” But the truly creepy one here is the witch: she eats (as she thinks) the heart of the murdered Snow White, and then, realizing that she was mistaken, comes up with more and more sophisticated ways to kill her. These include a strangling dress string, a poisonous comb, and a poisoned apple that we know worked. The ending is also interesting: when everything goes well for Snow White, it’s the witch’s turn. As punishment for her sins, she dances in red-hot iron shoes until she falls dead.

Still from the cartoon “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.”

The beauty and the Beast

The original source of the tale is neither more nor less ancient greek myth about the beautiful Psyche, whose beauty was envied by everyone, from her older sisters to the goddess Aphrodite. The girl was chained to a rock in the hope of being fed to the monster, but she was miraculously saved by an “invisible creature.” It, of course, was male, because it made Psyche its wife on the condition that she would not torment him with questions. But, of course, female curiosity prevailed, and Psyche learned that her husband was not a monster at all, but a beautiful Cupid. Psyche's husband was offended and flew away, not promising to return. Meanwhile, Psyche's mother-in-law Aphrodite, who was against this marriage from the very beginning, decided to completely harass her daughter-in-law, forcing her to perform various complex tasks: for example, bring golden fleece from mad sheep and water from the river of the dead Styx. But Psyche did everything, and there Cupid returned to the family, and they lived happily ever after. And the stupid, envious sisters rushed off the cliff, vainly hoping that the “invisible spirit” would be found on them too.

Closer to modern history version was writtenGabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuvein 1740. Everything about it is complicated: the Beast is essentially an unfortunate orphan. His father died, and his mother was forced to defend her kingdom from enemies, so she entrusted the upbringing of her son to someone else’s aunt. She turned out to be an evil witch, in addition, she wanted to seduce the boy, and having received a refusal, she turned him into a terrible beast. Beauty also has her own skeletons in her closet: she is in fact not her own, but the adopted daughter of a merchant. Her real father is the king who sinned with the stray good fairy. But an evil witch also lays claim to the king, so it was decided to give her rival’s daughter to the merchant, whose youngest daughter had just died. Well, a curious fact about Beauty’s sisters: when the beast lets her go to stay with her relatives, the “good” girls deliberately force her to stay in the hope that the monster will go wild and eat her. By the way, this subtle relatable moment is shown in the latest film version of “Beauty and the Beast” withVincent Cassel And Léay Seydoux.

Still from the movie "Beauty and the Beast"

Probably every girl dreams of becoming a sleeping beauty, who will be rescued from her dreams by a handsome prince, as was the case in the traditional plot European fairy tale. Book lovers saw a non-trivial story thanks to the literary edition of the Brothers Grimm and. By the way, these same writers worked on “” and other works that are familiar to both adults and children. The story about a bewitched girl migrated to the vastness of cinema and other literary works.

History of creation

The tale of Sleeping Beauty was invented much earlier than one might think. Moreover, some researchers were looking for hidden subtext. For example, there is an outdated theory among some folklorists who suggested that the thirteenth fairy - the outcast - was invented for a reason. The fact is that the thirteen-month lunar system was changed and shortened: thus, humanity “put in the center” not the Moon, but the Sun.

A familiar plot appears in French work"Perseforest", which was published in the 14th century, but Charles Perrault was based on a different source and relied on the plot, which is presented in the fairy tale "The Sun, the Moon and the Thalia" by Giambattista Basile (1634). Basile wrote about the royal daughter Thalia, whom court astrologers predicted danger from flax.

In order not to condemn the child to an unenviable existence, the owners of the throne ordered all the herbs to be removed from the castle, but this precaution did not help, because after some time Thalia saw an old woman spinning flax from the window. The girl asked to try spinning, but she drove a splinter into her finger, which caused her death.

The upset king and queen did not bury their beloved daughter, but ordered the girl’s body to be transferred to a country palace. Further in the plot, a king appears who failed to wake up the unfortunate princess. Since this man was visiting the girl for a reason, Talia soon gave birth to two twins, one of whom became her savior: instead of a breast, the boy began to suck his mother’s finger and sucked out a splinter from it, due to which the main character woke up.

Later, that king returned to his mistress and, seeing the children, named them Sun and Moon. Then his legal wife finds out about the king’s betrayal and prepares a dish for all participants, which is usually served cold - revenge. IN real story There are cruel motives, for example, the owner of the throne ordered the killing of the Sun and the Moon and cooking them into a roast “with Robber sauce.” However, the story of Thalia and the twins has a happy ending.

Charles Perrault could not allow children to see rape and cannibalism in a fairy tale. Therefore, the literary genius did the same as with “Little Red Riding Hood” - he softened the particularly “acute” moments, and also changed the reason for the girl’s eternal sleep to the curse of an evil fairy.

Charles's tale is surrounded by a magical atmosphere and ends with a kiss and a wedding, while his predecessor described all the harsh trials that the couple in love had to go through. Also, the master of words changed the queen to the mother, and the king to the prince.

It is worth saying that Giambattista has a similar moment in the work “The Young Slave,” in which the fairy curses the beautiful Lisa and prophesies her death because her mother will leave a comb in her hair. By the way, the crystal coffin used by the Brothers Grimm in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs appears in this manuscript.

Charles Perrault's "lethargic" tale was published in 1697 and was actually called "The Beauty of the Sleeping Forest." This work received recognition among the sophisticated public, especially since the author adapted the creation to the courtly literature of the time, trying to dress the characters in noble costumes of the 17th century. And the girls blushed at the phrase:

“He approached her with awe and admiration and knelt down beside her.”

Perrault did not pursue the goal of impressing the public, because in every fairy tale, even if it children's work about wizards and fairies, there must be a philosophical subtext. Thus, the main idea of ​​“Sleeping Beauty” is that the power of love can overcome any adversity. But for young readers there are others, adapted storylines– translations by N. Kasatkina, T. Gabbe, A. Lyubarskaya and other literary figures.

As for the Brothers Grimm, it’s not just the main character who falls asleep, but the entire kingdom, and the fairy tale ends when the princess wakes up. To get to know the Russian mentality, you can contact the creator of “”, who wrote “The Tale of the Dead Princess.”

Plot

The classic story begins with the birth of a daughter to the king and queen. In honor of this event, a grandiose feast was planned throughout the kingdom, where all the sorceresses were invited, except one: that fairy had not appeared from her tower for half a century, and everyone thought that she was dead. The uninvited guest finally came to the celebration, but she did not have enough cutlery, so the owner of the magic wand felt that she had been treated discourteously.

When the rest of the fairies presented the birthday girl with gifts, the old woman Carabosse uttered a cruel prophecy that the spindle prick would be fatal for the beauty. But still, the sentence is commuted by another sorceress, because the last word wins the argument: the unfortunate girl will not die, but will fall into a deep sleep for exactly a hundred years. It is noteworthy that in the original retelling of Charles Perrault there is no mention of the prince’s “invigorating” kiss.

Having heard the witch's prediction, the king ordered all the spindles and spinning wheels to be burned, but his attempts to save his daughter were in vain: having become an adult girl, the princess found in the country tower of the castle an old woman who did not know about the ban on spindles and was spinning a tow.

main character decided to help, but pricked her finger on the spindle and fell dead. They did everything they could to wake up the princess: they splashed water in her face, rubbed her temples with fragrant vinegar, but no measures woke up the king’s daughter.

The fairy, who at one time commuted the sentence, asked the owners of the castle to leave the place and plunged it into eternal sleep; Tall trees grew around. The young sorceress thought that the princess would be sad when she woke up after a hundred years and did not see a single familiar face. Therefore, the fairy touched each courtier with her magic wand, and they also fell asleep for a century. The king and queen avoided this trick, since, according to Perrault, rulers have matters that cannot be postponed for such a long time.

A hundred years later, a prince appeared in the castle, who did not know about the current situation, but heard from a passer-by about the sleeping beauty and what a brave young man would awaken her. The king's son rode his horse to an enchanted place, where he saw a young girl. When he knelt down, the princess who had been pricked by the spindle woke up. Consequently, in Perrault’s original there was no kiss, because the heroine woke up from the fact that exactly a hundred years had passed.

• The composer also presented his own vision of the fairy tale, however, in musical performance. Spectators still enjoy the ballet “The Sleeping Beauty” of the same name.
• In 1959, a film adaptation of the tale of the sleeping beauty was presented by an animator, translating the concept of Charles Perrault into a full-length cartoon. The main characters were voiced by such actors and actresses as Mary Costa, Bill Shirley, Eleanor Audley, Verna Felton and Barbara Jo Allen.

• Disneyland has Sleeping Beauty Castle, built as a promotional tool. But the children's park opened in 1955, four years before the premiere of the cartoon. The origin of the castle was announced in 1957, because curious tourists were constantly interested in this building.
• She appeared in the cartoon in the guise of an evil fairy. By the way, this heroine became popular and even deserved a spin-off of the same name starring her.