Sleeping Beauty

There are many variations and adaptions of this fairy tale.
Other than 'Sleeping Beauty', the Brothers Grimm's famous story was also titled 'Little Briar Rose' which was written in 1812.
Books: 'Sun, Moon, and Talia' (1632) written by Giambattista Basile 'La Belle au Bois Dormant' or 'The Beauty in the Sleeping Wood' (1697) written by Charles Perrult .
Films: The Disney film 'Sleeping Beauty' (1959) and
the Maleficent films
Others: Piotr Ilych Tchaikovsky's The Sleeping Beauty (1890) photo: Alexandra Ansanelli as Princess Aurora and David Makhateli as Prince Florimund in a Royal Ballet production of Sleeping Beauty, 29 April 2008
and Engelbert Humperdinck's Dornröschen (1902) which is an Opera.

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