Sleeping Beauty

Sleeping Beauty the timeless tale of a curse, a slumbering princess ,and true loves kiss right. WRONG! at least not in the very original story ,oh don't get me wrong the curse and the slumbering princess are in the story ,but it's no kiss that wakes Sleeping Beauty up.Well,I'm getting ahead of my self so I'll start at the beginning . This story starts out with a party to celebrate the birth of the new princess. Six fairies have been invited to bestow gifts among the new princess (there's actually seven) however one fairy has been over looked and she is not happy so after the baby receives five gifts,she turns the parents and promptly curses the baby. The curse involves a spinning needle and death,how does one die from a needle,I don't know,but I imagined it was poison,but who knows? Of course all is not lost because as luck would have it,the youngest fairy has not bestowed her gift and even though she can't change the curse(it's a rule,I guess) she can modify it so the princess doesn't die only sleeps for a hundred years. Of course dear old Dad who apparently doesn't understand about curses has every spinning needle banned note: Sleeping Beauty does not go live in the forest with three plump,cheery fairies . So time passes and Sleeping Beauty becomes a teenager and like all teenagers ,I'm sure she has her moments of rebellion. As we all know the unavoidable will happen and lo and behold ,the princess goes exploring one day and sees a lady spinning .Naturally she's curious and wants to know what the contraption is,the lady tells her and asks if she wants to touch the needle.STOP! okay if spinning wheels were banned ,why does this lady have one and why would she ask Sleeping Beauty wants to touch the needle .Whatever . Sleeping Beauty touches the needle and falls into a deep sleep. However it's not just her the entire castle is also in a deep sleep.

So a hundred years later a prince comes and upon seeing the princess's beauty falls on her and no,he does not kiss her .He rapes her yes,I said rape sounds like an episode of Law and Order:SVU if you ask me.The princess despite being alseep has twins and it's not until her son who's hungry sucks a piece of flax from her nail does she wake up. I don't about you,but if I was in a coma and woke up and saw that I had two babies ,Id' be all "What the bloody blue blazes.". The prince who's not all of a jerk does marry the princess and takes her and the babies to live at the castle. Oh yes dear old hubby forgot to mention his mother is an ogre who likes to eat soft tender flesh and since this is a recurring theme in fairy tales she asks for the inner organs of the two babies Dawn and Day so she could eat them. Of course the Cook(huntsman,I forget) can't bring himself to kill the poor kids,so he takes them to his house and hides them.He brings back the inner organs of some animal ,then the ogress asks for the flesh of Sleeping Beauty ,The Cook(?) thinks he's lost ,there is no animal in the kingdom that will have the Queen's tender yet tough flesh,so he goes to tell her that he has to kill her.Sleeping Beauty only says that at least she'll be with her children(she's under the impression they're dead) . The ogress finds out about the Cook's lie ,so she says that the Cook,his wife,their children,the Queen and two babies are to be killed in a vat of boiling oil,however as all fairy tales go,there has to be a happy ending(unless it's a HC Anderson fairy tale) and as luck would have it.The king shows up and puts a stop to the execution and I think banishes his mother or kills her either way,she's out of the picture and that my friends is the story of Sleeping Beauty a story of rape,curses and cannibalism. Next on the list Little Red Riding Hood