“Sleeping Beauty: 1636, Italy.
“The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood” was the opening tale in Charles Perrault’s 1697 book. It is the version we still tell today, but it did nit represent the complete original story; Perrault’s recounting omits many of the beautiful princess’s horrifying ordeals. The first written version of the tale was published in Italy in 1636 by Giambatista Basille in his collection ‘Pentamerone’.
In this Neapolitan “Sleeping Beauty” a great king is forewarned by wise men that his newborn daughter, Talia, is in peril from a poison splinter in flax. Although the king bans flax from the palace, Talia, as a young girl, happens upon a flax-spinning wheel and immediately catches a splinter beneath her fingernail, falling dead.
Grief-stricken, the king lays his daughter body on a velvet cloth, locks the palace gates, and leaves the forest forever. At this point, our modern version and the original diverge.
A nobleman, hunting in the woods, discovers the abandoned palace and the insensate body of the princess Instead of merely kissing her, he rapes her and departs. Nine months later, the sleeping Talia gives birth to twins: a boy and a girl. Named Sun and Moon, they are looked after by the fairies. One day, the male infant sucks on his mother’s finger and the poisonous splinter is dislodged, restoring Talia to consciousness.
Months passed, and the nobleman, recollecting his pleasurable encounter with the fair-haired sleeping beauty, revisits the palace and finds her awake. He confesses to being father of Talia’s children, and they enjoy a week-long affair before he leaves her again for his wife, whom he conveniently never mentions.
The original story at this point gets increasingly, if not gratuitously, bizarre. The nobleman’s wife learns of her husband’s bastard children. She has them captured and assigns them to her cook, with orders that their young throats be slashed, and their flesh prepared in a savory hash. Only when her husband has half-finished the dish does she gleefully announce: “You are eating what is your own!”
For a time, the nobleman believes he has eaten his children, but it turns out that the tenderhearted cook spared the twins and substituted goat meat. The anraged wife orders that the captured Talia be burned alive at the stake. But Sleeping Beauty is saved at the last moment by the father of her children.
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но только ли это там есть?
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