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"The Tales of Beedle the Bard is a collection of stories written for young wizards and witches. They have been popular bedtime reading for centuries, with the result that the Hopping Pot and the Fountain of Fair Fortune are as familiar to many of the students at Hogwarts as Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty are to Muggle (non-magical) children."
J. K. Rowling[src]

Sleeping Beauty was a popular Muggle fairy tale. In this tale, the heroine, a princess, was cursed into a "prolonged nap" by a wicked fairy godmother.[1]

Muggle author J. K. Rowling noted the difference between this fairy tale and wizarding children's stories: fictional witches were much more active in seeking their fortunes than the Muggle fairy-tale heroines. Asha, Altheda, Amata and Babbitty Rabbity were all witches who take their fate into their own hands, rather than than taking a hundred year-long nap, as the protagonist of Sleeping Beauty did.[1]

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Despite it is just viewed as a children's story by Muggles, this tale seemed to be an actual account of the incident caused by the hag Leticia Somnolens in the Middle Ages, where a Wizard Prince used the Wiggenweld Potion to awaken a Princess who had been given the Draught of Living Death by the hag, by putting some of the potion on his lips and then kissing the princess.[2]

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