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"Sleeping Beauties"

Aravelle

Sage
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.
 

ThinkerX

Myth Weaver
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.
 
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