Sleeping Beauty | Related Tales

The following tales are similar to the Sleeping Beauty fairy tale, AT-410. I have included the English language tales of this type which have been gathered by title by D. L. Ashliman in his A Guide to Folktales in the English Language. Sometimes I include tales of other classifications when I deem them relevant to the theme. The tales come from many cultures and are similar to the Sleeping Beauty story in various ways. I have placed the tales in alphabetical order with bibliographic information and links to texts of the stories if a text is available on the internet.




A web version of this tale does not exist due to copyright restrictions.

This tale is not AT-410, but it bears many similarities to Sleeping Beauty.

An English language version is available in:

Heiner, Heidi Anne, editor. Sleeping Beauties: Sleeping Beauty and Snow White Tales From Around the World. Nashville: SurLaLune Press with CreateSpace, 2010.
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A web version of this tale does not exist due to copyright restrictions.

This tale is not AT-410 and comes from Austria.

An English language version is available in:

Heiner, Heidi Anne, editor. Sleeping Beauties: Sleeping Beauty and Snow White Tales From Around the World. Nashville: SurLaLune Press with CreateSpace, 2010.
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Text available at The Glass Coffin.

This tale is AT-410.

An English language version is available in:

Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm. The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm. Jack Zipes, translator. New York: Bantam, 1987.
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Heiner, Heidi Anne, editor. Sleeping Beauties: Sleeping Beauty and Snow White Tales From Around the World. Nashville: SurLaLune Press with CreateSpace, 2010.
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Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm. Household Tales. Margaret Hunt, translator. London: George Bell, 1884.

Text available at The King of Erin and the Queen of the Lonesome Island.

This story also appears in P. L. Travers' About the Sleeping Beauty.

An English language version is available in:

Curtin, Jeremiah. Myths and Folk-lore of Ireland. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1890. (Also London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1890.)
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Text available at Little Briar-Rose.

The story of Little Briar-Rose is German.

This tale is AT-410.

An English language version is available in:

Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm. The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm. Jack Zipes, translator. New York: Bantam, 1987.
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Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm. Household Tales. Margaret Hunt, translator. London: George Bell, 1884.

Heiner, Heidi Anne, editor. Sleeping Beauties: Sleeping Beauty and Snow White Tales From Around the World. Nashville: SurLaLune Press with CreateSpace, 2010.
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A web version of this tale is available at The Bear.

This tale is AT-510B.

An English language version is available in:

Lang, Andrew, ed. The Grey Fairy Book. New York: Dover, 1967. (Original published 1900.)
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A web version of this tale does not exist due to copyright restrictions.

This tale is AT-410.

An English language version is available in:

Calvino, Italo. Italian Folktales. George Martin, translator. New York: Pantheon Books, 1980.
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Text available at The Ninth Captain's Tale on D. L. Ashliman's site.

This tale is AT-410.

This tale is derived from The Story of the Prince in Love from Egypt.

An English language version is available in:

Mathers, Powys, trans. The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night. Rendered into English from the literal and complete French translation of Dr. J. C. Mardrus. 4 vols. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1964.

Text available at The Petrified Mansion.

This story also appears in P. L. Travers' About the Sleeping Beauty.

An English language version is available in:

Heiner, Heidi Anne, editor. Sleeping Beauties: Sleeping Beauty and Snow White Tales From Around the World. Nashville: SurLaLune Press with CreateSpace, 2010.
Amazon.com: Buy the book in paperback.

Bradley-Birt, Francis. Bengal Fairy Tales. London: John Lane, 1920.

A web version of this tale does not exist due to copyright restrictions.

This tale is AT-410.

An English language version is available in:

Pino-Saaverdra, Yolando, ed. Folktales of Chile. Rockwell Gray, ed. Folktales of the World. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1967.

A web version of this tale does not exist due to copyright restrictions.

This tale is AT-410.

An English language version is available in:

Thompson, Stith, ed. One Hundred Favorite Folktales. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1974.
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A web version of this tale does not exist due to copyright restrictions.

This tale is AT-410.

An English language version is available in:

Roberts, Leonard W. South From Hell-fer-Sartin: Kentucky Mountain Folk Tales. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1955.

A web version of this tale does not exist due to copyright restrictions.

This tale is AT-410.

An English language version is available in:

Calvino, Italo. Italian Folktales. George Martin, translator. New York: Pantheon Books, 1980.
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A web version of this tale is annotated on this site at Sleeping Beauty in the Wood.

This tale is AT-410.

An English language version is available in:

Heiner, Heidi Anne, editor. Sleeping Beauties: Sleeping Beauty and Snow White Tales From Around the World. Nashville: SurLaLune Press with CreateSpace, 2010.
Amazon.com: Buy the book in paperback.

Massignon, Genevieve, ed. Folktales of France. Jacqueline Hyland, translator. Folktales of the World. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1968.

Opie, Iona and Peter. The Classic Fairy Tales. New York: Oxford University Press, 1974.
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Lang, Andrew, ed. "Sleeping Beauty." The Blue Fairy Book. New York: Dover, 1965. (Original published 1889.)
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You can also find a copy of the book online for free at Project Gutenberg.

A web version of this tale does not exist due to copyright restrictions.

This tale is not AT-410 and comes from Italy.

An English language version is available in:

Heiner, Heidi Anne, editor. Sleeping Beauties: Sleeping Beauty and Snow White Tales From Around the World. Nashville: SurLaLune Press with CreateSpace, 2010.
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Pitré, Giuseppe. The Collected Sicilian Folk and Fairy Tales of Giuseppe Pitré. Volume 1. Jack Zipes and Joseph Russo, editors. New York: Routledge, 2008.
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A web version of this tale does not exist due to copyright restrictions.

This story is the source for The Ninth Captain's Tale which appears in The Arabian Nights by Mardrus and translated into English by Mathers.

This tale is AT-410. The tale comes from Egypt.

An English language version is available in:

Heiner, Heidi Anne, editor. Sleeping Beauties: Sleeping Beauty and Snow White Tales From Around the World. Nashville: SurLaLune Press with CreateSpace, 2010.
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Text available at Sun, Moon, and Talia

This tale is AT-410.

An English language version is available in:

Basile, Giambattista. The Pentamerone. Benedetto Croce, translator. New York: Dutton, 1932., Day 5, Tale 5.

Basile, Giambattista. The Pentamerone, or The Story of StoriesJohn Edward Taylor, translator. London: David Bogue, 1850.

Heiner, Heidi Anne, editor. Sleeping Beauties: Sleeping Beauty and Snow White Tales From Around the World. Nashville: SurLaLune Press with CreateSpace, 2010.
Amazon.com: Buy the book in paperback.

A web version of this tale does not exist due to copyright restrictions.

This tale is not AT-410 and comes from Italy.

An English language version is available in:

Heiner, Heidi Anne, editor. Sleeping Beauties: Sleeping Beauty and Snow White Tales From Around the World. Nashville: SurLaLune Press with CreateSpace, 2010.
Amazon.com: Buy the book in paperback.

Pitré, Giuseppe. The Collected Sicilian Folk and Fairy Tales of Giuseppe Pitré. Volume 1. Jack Zipes and Joseph Russo, editors. New York: Routledge, 2008.
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A text for this story is available at The Young Slave.

This tale is AT-410.

An English language version is available in:

Basile, Giambattista. The Pentamerone. Benedetto Croce, translator. New York: Dutton, 1932. Day 2, Tale 8.

Basile, Giovanni Batiste. Il Pentamerone, or The Tale of Tales. Sir Richard Burton, translator. London: Henry and Company, 1893.

A web version of this tale does not exist due to copyright restrictions.

This tale is AT-410.

An English language version is available in:

Patai, Raphael, editor and translator. Arab Folktales from Palestine and Israel. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1998. pp. 239-43.
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