Sleeping Beauty is a fairy tale from Perrault and the Brothers Grimm about a princess cursed to sleep until awakened by a prince's kiss. It encodes themes of time, enchantment, innocence preserved, and the awakening of the feminine.
Classic fairy tale of enchantment and awakening; Bruno Bettelheim and others analyzed its symbolic depth.
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