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AvatarCorin34 AvatarCorin34 4 March 2014
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Concerns with Sleeping Beauty Articles

Hello everyone, I would like to point out something which I'm sure most are unnaware. I am currenty a college student and for a class I had to write a paper comparing different retellings of a fairy tale. I chose Sleeping Beauty and in my research I learned something I hadn't before. When people ask for the original Sleeping Beauty tale they often reffer to the version by Charles Perrault written in 1697 and the even later retelling by the Grimm Brothers 1812. And they are what the wiki reffers to as well. However, in my research I discovered the truely original version.  The first story that can be counted as Sleeping Beauty is by an Italian man named Giambattista Basile in 1634.  Basile's version is called Sun, Moon and Talia or Sol, Lun…

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