History Literature / SunMoonAndTalia

* AdaptationalConsent: Understandably most subsequent adaptations of this story, including ''Sleeping Beauty'', omit the entire part about the rape.

For what this tale mutated into, see "Literature/SleepingBeauty". The first part of the story is itself adapted from the story of Troylus and Zellandine from the courtly romance ''Perceforest''. Also compare to "Literature/TheBrownBearOfTheGreenGlen".

For what this tale mutated into, see "Literature/SleepingBeauty". Also compare to "Literature/TheBrownBearOfTheGreenGlen".

One day the king remembered his adventure and went to see Talia again, presumably to rape her again. He found her awake, and confessing he was the father of her children, they went off to have a weekend long sex marathon in the hay, even though she didn't know his ass from Adam. Then he promised to bring her and the rugrats to his castle, but was careful to keep them hidden from his wife. (Oh, did we forget to mention ''he was already married?'' What a charmer.) The king's wife found out his secret, and on the sly sent for the two children in the king's name. She ordered them cooked and served to her husband. The cook hid the children in his own home and prepared some goat kids instead, which the queen served to the king. A while later the queen sent for Talia and planned to have her thrown into the fire because she was the reason for the king's infidelity. At the last minute the king arrived, had his wife thrown into the fire, married Talia, and was happy to find his children, whom the cook had saved.

One day the king remembered his adventure and went to see Talia again, presumably to rape her again. He found her awake, and confessing he was the father of her children, they went off to have a weekend long sex marathon in the hay, even though she didn't know his ass from Adam. Then he brought her and the rugrats to his castle, but was careful to keep them hidden from his wife. (Oh, did we forget to mention ''he was already married?'' What a charmer.) The king's wife found out his secret, and on the sly sent for the two children in the king's name. She ordered them cooked and served to her husband. The cook hid the children in his own home and prepared some goat kids instead, which the queen served to the king. A while later the queen sent for Talia and planned to have her thrown into the fire because she was the reason for the king's infidelity. At the last minute the king arrived, had his wife thrown into the fire, married Talia, and was happy to find his children, whom the cook had saved.

On the birth of his daughter Talia, a king asked all the wise men and seers to tell her future. They concluded that she would be exposed to great danger from a splinter of flax. To prevent any such accident, the king ordered that no flax or hemp should ever come into his castle. But one day when Talia had grown up, she saw an old woman who was spinning pass by her window. Talia--who had never seen anything like it before--"was therefore delighted with the dancing of the spindle." Made curious, she took the distaff in her hand and began to draw out the thread. A splinter of hemp "got under her fingernail and she immediately fell dead upon the ground." The king left his [[NotQuiteDead lifeless]] daughter seated on a velvet chair in one of his his country estates, locked the door, and departed forever, to obliterate the memory of his sorrow.

''Sun, Moon, and Talia'', also known more formally as ''Il Pentamerone, Day 5, Tale 5'', is an Italian literary fairy tale written by Giambattista Basile and posthumously published in the last volume of his (published by his sister in 1634-36) work, the ''Pentamerone''. It is the tale which is thought to have influenced [[Creator/CharlesPerrault Perrault's]] "Literature/SleepingBeauty".

''Sun, Moon, and Talia'', also known more formally as ''Il Pentamerone, Day 5, Tale 5'', is an Italian literary fairy tale written by Giambattista Basile and published in the last volume of his (posthumously published by his sister in 1634-36 ) work, the ''Pentamerone''. It is the tale which is thought to have influenced [[Creator/CharlesPerrault Perrault's]] "Literature/SleepingBeauty".

''Sun, Moon, and Talia'', also known more formally as ''Il Pentamerone, Day 5, Tale 5'', is an Italian literary fairy tale written by Giambattista Basile in the last volume of his (posthumously published by his sister in 1634-36 ) work, the ''Pentamerone''. It is the tale which is thought to have influenced [[Creator/CharlesPerrault Perrault's]] "Literature/SleepingBeauty".

''Sun, Moon, and Talia'', also known more formally as ''Il Pentamerone, Day 5, Tale 5'', is an Italian literary fairy tale written by Giambattista Basile in the last volume of his (posthumously published by his sister) 1634-36 work, the ''Pentamerone''. It is the tale which is thought to have influenced [[Creator/CharlesPerrault Perrault's]] "Literature/SleepingBeauty".

''Sun, Moon, and Talia'', also known more formally as ''Il Pentamerone, Day 5, Tale 5'', is an Italian literary fairy tale written by Giambattista Basile in the last volume of his 1634-36 work, the ''Pentamerone''. It is the tale which is thought to have influenced [[Creator/CharlesPerrault Perrault's]] "Literature/SleepingBeauty".

''Sun, Moon, and Talia'', also known more formally as ''Il Pentamerone, Day 5, Tale 5'', is an Italian literary fairy tale written by Giambattista Basile in his 1634 work, the ''Pentamerone''. It is the tale which is thought to have influenced [[Creator/CharlesPerrault Perrault's]] "Literature/SleepingBeauty".

''Sun, Moon, and Talia'', also known more formally as ''Il Pentamerone, Day 5, Tale 5'' (from 1636), is the tale which is thought to have influenced [[Creator/CharlesPerrault Perrault's]] "Literature/SleepingBeauty".

On the birth of his daughter Talia, a king asked all the wise men and seers to tell her future. They concluded that she would be exposed to great danger from a splinter of flax. To prevent any such accident, the king ordered that no flax or hemp should ever come into his castle. But one day when Talia had grown up, she saw an old woman who was spinning pass by her window. Talia--who had never seen anything like it before--"was therefore delighted with the dancing of the spindle." Made curious, she took the distaff in her hand and began to draw out the thread. A splinter of hemp "got under her fingernail and she immediately fell dead upon the ground." The king left his [[NotQuiteDead lifeless]] daughter seated on a velvet chair in the palace, locked the door, and departed forever, to obliterate the memory of his sorrow.

* UnrelatedInTheAdaptation: Some versions like [[[[https://web.archive.org/web/20191229040645/http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/pentamerone/29sunmoontalia1911.html this one]] omit the rape and turn Sun and Moon into two beggar kids who find Talia while she is asleep.

An unexpurgated translation can be read [[https://web.archive.org/web/20191229040645/http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/pentamerone/29sunmoontalia1911.html here]], and [[http://web.archive.org/web/20110607231806/http://www.public.iastate.edu/~lhagge/sun,moon.htm here]].

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An unexpurgated translation can be read [[http://web.archive.org/web/20110607231806/http://www.public.iastate.edu/~lhagge/sun,moon.htm here]]. For what this tale mutated into, see "Literature/SleepingBeauty". Also compare to "Literature/TheBrownBearOfTheGreenGlen".

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%%* {{Yandere}}: The king's wife.