Fans of Disney animated musicals and movies know one version of the story of Sleeping Beauty. The 1959 beloved classic introduced the world to such Disney staples as a princess (Aurora), three fairy godmothers (Flora, Fauna and Merriweather), and an evil witch (Maleficent) who casts a sleep spell on Aurora, which ends when a handsome prince kisses her after killing the witch. Fans of original versions of fairy tales know this one is based on a story found in the narrative Perceforest, composed between 1330 and 1344, and published published by Giambattista Basile in his collection of tales titled The Pentamerone, and later by Charles Perrault in Histoires ou contes du temps passé in 1697. An oral telling of that version was printed by the Brothers Grimm who were impressed by a really ‘grim’ tale of a princess who falls in love with a man, then falls into an enchanted sleep when she pricks her finger with flax; while asleep, the man impregnates her (we said it was grim), the child is born and eventually removes the flax, waking the woman, who realizes who the father is and marries him anyway. Fans of reality will be pleased to learn that the story of a real sleeping beauty discovered in Indonesia is not as grim but still pretty serious.