Something curious I just found: I was reading through Calvinoâs notes of his "italian folktales", and went back to the different variants of "sleeping beauty" he found, at least the ones that most closely resembled "sun, Moon and Talia" and Perraultâs tale. Two things are of note: the villain trying to kill the Sleeper and her children is always the princeâs mother, never his old wife like in Basileâs tale (except for maybe the senese versions collected by Ciro Marzocchi, since I couldnât read them); the other thing is that the awakening through necrophilia only happens in a handful of versions (in the abruzzan collected by Antonio de Nino, and in the calabrian by Raffaele Leonardis), otherwise it occurs through the prince removing a cursed object, like in "Snow White" and its variants (again not counting the senese versions, since I couldnât read them)
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