Talk:Maleficent/@comment-1672596-20170924194203/@comment-24293334-20170924195215

I studied the original Sleeping Beauty fairy tale at Uni and am happy to report that the somniphiliac prince was only one - and not the preferred/pimary version - of the story; generally it really is true love's kiss that awakens her (and there are good-aligned dragons who drive the chariot one of the good-aligned fairies!)

As to the Disney film, I always found the sequence you described to be the most disturbing part; not only is Prince Philip depicted as being very old when finally released, but also a ghost; it is unlikely that he would have lived to the age of nearly 120 years old, let alone his horse!