"Sleeping Beauties"

[Aravelle]

Does anyone know of faerietales or myths with a beautiful sleeping youth? The gender doesn't matter. I've looked into several versions of Sleeping Beauty [Sole, Luna, e Talia, Briar Rose, Perceforest], and the myth of Selene and Endymion, but I'd like to find more. It's for a story I'm working on, obviously.

 

[Nihal]

I guess Brynhildr qualifies.

 

[Anders Ämting]

Since gender doesn't matter, check out the King in the Mountain, a common mythical motif about kings or heroes suspended in a magical sleep or stasis until the time has come for them to return.

 

[psychotick]

Hi,

He wasn't beautiful as far as I know, but there's always Rip Van Winkle.

Cheers, Greg.

 

[ThinkerX]

There is the christian myth of the 'seven sleepers' which probably inspired some of the later tales.

Supposedly, seven christian youths took refuge in a cave during the roman persecutions. They steeled themselves to become martyrs for the faith, but decided to sleep on it first. Their sleep lasted a a century. When they awoke, the roman empire had gone from pagan to christian.