Grimm's Fairy Tales

Briar Rose (or, Sleeping Beauty)

Media Type:Audiobook
Genre(s):Classics
Fables, Fairy Tales & Myths
Narrator(s):George Newbern
ISBN:9781666586961
Publish Date:10/17/2017
Run Time:9 Minutes
Language:English
Publisher:Dreamscape Media

Audiobook

In Briar Rose, better known as Sleeping Beauty, seven good fairies are invited to be godmothers to an infant princess. An old, overlooked fairy feels slighted and puts a deadly curse on the princess. A kind fairy modulates the curse from death to 100 years of deep sleep which can be broken by the kiss of a handsome prince. This combination of princess, sleep enchantment and rescue by prince exists in multiple folk tales going back as early as the narrative Perceforest, composed between 1330 and 1344.