History Literature / SunMoonAndTalia

%%* GodSaveUsFromTheQueen

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.

"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".

!! "Sun, Moon, and Talia" has examples of:

** Some variations keep the whole cannibalism plot point but instead have Talia eat her own offspring in shock. More than likely a use of {{Squick}} to prove a point.

** One translation removed the ChildBhRape element. Instead, two children randomly walk into the mansion (with the narrator outright saying that they don't know where the kids wandered from) and try to awaken Talia. The little girl puts Talia's finger into her mouth and tries to bite her awake, but instead she accidentally sucks out the object that keeps Talia comatose.

* LostInTranslation: One English translation of the story tried to sanitize the story by changing the queen to be the king's stepmother, rather than wife, and stupidly kept the line about him blaming her for not having children.
** Some variations keep the whole cannibalism plot point but instead have Talia eat her own offspring in shock. More than likely a use of {{Squick}} to prove a point.

* KarmaHoudini: The King. He raped Talia (in the process cheating on his wife), left her in the tower afterward and killed his own wife instead of just have a separation. In return, he gets two kids and another wife.

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* KarmaHoudini: The King. He raped Talia, left her in the tower afterward and killed his own wife instead of just have a separation. In return, he gets two kids and another wife.

%%* LoveAtFirstSight

%%* PublicDomainCharacter
* RapeIsLove: The trope that this fairy tale is built upon.

%%* FakingTheDead

%%* FauxDeath

%%* HappilyEverAfter

%%* RapeIsLove: The trope that this fairy tale is built upon.

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

* DroitDuSeigneur: The king sees the sleeping Talia, and clearly considers it his right have his way with her.

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. 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.

%%* DudeShesLikeInAComa
%%* DroitDuSeigneur

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* DamselInDistress
* DudeShesLikeInAComa
* DroitDuSeigneur
* EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses
* FakingTheDead
* FamilyUnfriendlyViolence
* FauxDeath
* GodSaveUsFromTheQueen
* HappilyEverAfter
* KarmaHoudini - The King. He raped Talia, left her in the tower afterward and killed his own wife instead of just have a separation. In return, he gets two kids and another wife.
* LoveAtFirstSight
* MoralDissonance
* ParentalAbandonment - Talia's father just leaves her in the castle after she goes to sleep.
* PublicDomainCharacter
* RapeIsLove - The trope that this fairy tale is built upon.
* SelfFulfillingProphecy

** One English translation of the story tried to sanitize the story by changing the queen to be the king's stepmother, rather than wife, [[TheyJustDidntCare and stupidly kept the line about him blaming her for not having children.]]
* {{Yandere}} - The king's wife.

* RevisedEnding: The shock value fact of Literature/SleepingBeauty eating her own kids from that page actually comes from a variant of this story, which stops the story short by having Talia eat her own children. But this is a much rarer version to find.

* RevisedEnding: The shock value fact of Sleeping Beauty eating her own kids from that page actually comes from a variant of this story, which stops the story short by having Talia eat her own children. But this is a much rarer version to find.

* DistressedDamsel

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

* DroitDuSeigner

For what this tale mutated into, see "Literature/SleepingBeauty".

The summary of this story follows like this:

"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 [[CharlesPerrault Perrault's]] "SleepingBeauty".

For what this tale mutated into, see "SleepingBeauty".

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

(For what this tale mutated into, see the "SleepingBeauty" example in AdaptationDecay.)