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The Real History Sleeping Beauty

       The Disney movie was so sweet, the true history sleeping beauty it’s frightening and the first version was originally written by Giambattista Basile in 1636. According to investigation Ford (2014) in the first version it explain the history of Talia the daughter of a king. She pricks herself with a poisoned sliver when she had sixteen years old. The king was very sad; he was not able to bury her; therefore, he puts her on a velvet cloth and closes the palace and leaves; until there the history is the same.

        Many years later, a man used to hunt in the forest where the palace of the sleeping beauty was. There he saw the beautiful princess; he immediately falls in love with her; he kissed her, but for him that was not enough and he tried to wake her, but he could not. So, he had relationship with her. In other words he abused her. Nine month later the princess, still sleep gives birth to twins; a girl and a boy named soon ad moon. Children are take care of by fairies that accompany the princess. One day the boy tries to take the breast of his mother, but take her finger and started sucking it; he achieve to extract the poisoned sliver and Talia wakes up. Then the man decides to return, but to his surprise the princess is awake and she is not alone; therefore, he realizes that they are his children and decides to tell Talia everything after that they decide to have relationship, but this time consented by her. Then he returned with his wife, but without telling the reason to princess.

      On the other hand, the wife to nobleman discovers her husband’s infidelity and very annoying sends to kidnap the babies and asks the cook to kill them and cook them, but that was not enough, also decides to burn Talia. When the nobleman discovers that it made his wife, so, he orders it to be burned to. After that, the cook explain to him that he had not been able to kill babies and the princess was alive. After all that the princess and the nobleman get marry and to the cook they give the title of real treasure.

      To conclude, this history is totally different from the one we all know, but this history if present to final happy as the Disney movie.