30 Day Challenge #3

 For my second 30 Day Challenge, I decided to research commonly known fairy tales, such as Snow White and Cinderella, and compare to media products based off of them. Many different adaptations are different from the original work. The first fairy tale I have decided to compare with its different recreations is Sleeping Beauty.
 The most popular adaptation of Sleeping Beauty is the Disney movie, which was made in 1959 by Walt Disney. In this version of the fairy tale, a young girl named Aurora is born to King Stefan and his Queen. The girl is visited by three fairies who each give Aurora a gift. Then a witch named Maleficent, who is mad at the King and Queen, comes and says that the girl will fall into a 100-sleep. Later in the movie, Aurora pricks her finger on a spindle and falls into the before mentioned 100 year sleep. She is the awoken by Prince Phillip with true love's kiss, and the two live happily ever after.
 This was pretty similar to the original version of the fairy tale, but with a few minor changes in the beginning. In the original, there are 7 fairies instead of 3, and Maleficent, who had no given name in the story, was actually a fairy instead of a witch. She originally said that Aurora would die, but the last good fairy promised that she would only fall into a hundred year sleep. From there, the story is basically the same as the movie, but it changes when the fairy tale continues after the movie ends. Sleeping Beauty, who also has no given name in the tale, and the prince get married and have two children, a daughter named Dawn and a son named Day. Then, the prince's mother, who is an ogress, planned to eat the couple's two children. The prince told Sleeping Beauty to hide their children, and when she did, she flew into a rage and planned to have them all thrown into a vat of poisonous animals. But then, the prince came in to save them all, and in a panic, the ogress threw herself into the vat and died, and the prince was happy that his family was safe. The original version of this story continues while the Disney version cuts it shorter.
 This 30 Day Challenge has been somewhat difficult because there are many different versions of the fairy tales that I am researching, and it is sometimes hard to find the original story. But overall, I enjoy this challenge and am looking forward to learning about all of the other fairy tales.