Shocking origin of the Sleeping Beauty tale

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In the original story, the king pulls a Norton and rapes her in her sleep, and she only wakes after having given birth to a pair of twins who suck the splinter of flax from her finger.


He finds Talia; overcome by her beauty, he tries unsuccessfully to wake her, and then, "Crying aloud, he beheld her charms and felt his blood course hotly through his veins. He lifted her in his arms, and carried her to a bed, where he gathered the first fruits of love."[2] Afterwards, he leaves her on the bed and returns to his own city. Talia becomes pregnant and, nine months later, still deep in sleep, gives birth to twins (a boy and a girl). One day, the girl cannot find her mother's breast; instead she begins to suck her finger and draws the flax splinter out. Talia awakens immediately and names her beloved children Sun and Moon, and lives with them in the house.
 
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