![]() ![]() Carabosse curses the princess to prick her finger on a spindle when she is fifteen or sixteen - and die. The seventh fairy chooses to wait until Carabosse has given her gift to give her own. She enters quietly and finds out that she cannot receive a golden casket to dine with like the other fairies, for the king had run out of them. ![]() In Perrault's version, Carabosse was not invited because she had not been seen in a long time - some had thought that she was dead. Over time the name Carabosse was applied to the wicked fairy in "Sleeping Beauty", and she is named as such in Tchaikovsky's famous ballet.Ĭarabosse was one of the fairies who lived in Sleeping Beauty's kingdom - in Perrault's version, she is the eighth fairy, and in the Grimms' version, she is the thirteenth. The name "Carabosse" comes from a similar character in a different fairytale - "The Princess Mayblossom" by Madame d'Aulnoy (who coined the term fairytale). She is named Maleficent in the 1959 Disney adaptation of the fairytale.Ĭarabosse is never given a proper name in either Charles Perrault's "The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood" or the Brothers Grimm's "Briar Rose". ![]() Carabosse is the name often ascribed to the wicked fairy godmother in the classic fairytale " Sleeping Beauty". ![]()
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