Sleeping Beauty legend

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The Sleeping Beauty legend is a famous European fairy tale about a princess cursed to sleep for a hundred years until awakened by a prince’s kiss, popularized by Charles Perrault and the Brothers Grimm and widely adapted in literature, ballet, and film.

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designed costumes for The Sleeping Beauty 1

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instanceOf European fairy tale
folk narrative
literary fairy tale
adaptedAs animated film
ballet
children's picture book
live-action film
opera
stage play
classifiedAs ATU 410
codifiedIn Dornröschen NERFINISHED
La Belle au bois dormant NERFINISHED
collectedIn Grimms' Fairy Tales NERFINISHED
culturalRegion Western Europe NERFINISHED
earlierRelatedTale Sun, Moon, and Talia NERFINISHED
earlierVersionOf Dornröschen NERFINISHED
La Belle au bois dormant NERFINISHED
featuresCharacterType fairies
kings and queens
royalty
firstLiteraryVersionBy Giambattista Basile GENERATED
hasAntagonist evil fairy
malevolent fairy
hasMainCharacter Sleeping Beauty NERFINISHED
enchanted princess
hasMotif cursed sleep
hundred-year sleep
prick of a spindle
prophecy
protective hedge of thorns
spinning wheel
true love's kiss
hasOrigin European folklore
hasSupportingCharacter prince
hasTheme coming of age
fate and destiny
good versus evil
power of love
includedIn Aarne–Thompson–Uther Index NERFINISHED
languageOfCanonicalVersion German
languageOfEarlyCanonicalVersion French
narrativeResolution awakening by a kiss
notableAdaptation Maleficent (2014 film) NERFINISHED
Sleeping Beauty (1959 Disney animated film) NERFINISHED
The Sleeping Beauty (Tchaikovsky ballet) NERFINISHED
popularizedBy Brothers Grimm NERFINISHED
Charles Perrault NERFINISHED
writtenDownInCentury 17th century
19th century

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Reinhardswald associatedWith Sleeping Beauty legend
Ivan Vsevolozhsky roleInCreation Sleeping Beauty legend
this entity surface form: designed costumes for The Sleeping Beauty