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HelpRe: Fairytale names - Would you use them?
in reply to a message by Jacks
Disney kept Briar Rose as the name Aurora was using when in hiding from Maleficent (sp). It is only mentioned once that her name is Briar Rose and from that point on the fairies refer to her as Rose. The Prince is named Phillip (in the movie-not sure of the tale-so many reprints).
Cinderella had a real name and then the stepsisters and stepmother named her Cinderella because she was always covered in ashes.
Snow White is named Snow White. I seem to remember reading somewhere (maybe the fairy tale) that her mother pricked her finger while sewing (like embroidery or something) and the red blood on the white aida cloth were signs of her fair-skinned, red-lipped daughter.
Just Belle. French for Beauty. Beauty and the Beast.
I named my own dd after Briar Rose (but just used Briar). I'd always wanted to use a Disney name for one of my kids, and Aurora was just a bit too popular for me. Ariel the same.
Cinderella had a real name and then the stepsisters and stepmother named her Cinderella because she was always covered in ashes.
Snow White is named Snow White. I seem to remember reading somewhere (maybe the fairy tale) that her mother pricked her finger while sewing (like embroidery or something) and the red blood on the white aida cloth were signs of her fair-skinned, red-lipped daughter.
Just Belle. French for Beauty. Beauty and the Beast.
I named my own dd after Briar Rose (but just used Briar). I'd always wanted to use a Disney name for one of my kids, and Aurora was just a bit too popular for me. Ariel the same.
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Belle is the French for "beautiful". :) Beauty is "beauté".
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Philip had no name in the original
As for Snow-White, her mother did indeed prick her finger sewing. Her blood dropped on either the snow on her windowsill or her snow-white sewing fabric, depending on the version of the tale, and the beauty of that combined with the ebony windowsill or sewing frame (depending on the version) made her wish for a child as red as blood, as white as snow, and as black as ebony. Strangely, when the child was born, she was named after only one of these attributes.
Another story featuring a snow-white, blood-red child is "The Juniper Tree", where the mother cuts her finger peeling apples. The child is a boy, however, which is interesting. The story itself is quite gruesome (it even features the murder and cannibalism of the little boy), but naturally has a happy ending.
And of course there's the Snow-White of "Snow-White and Rose-Red", the sister to the Rose-Red of the title. These children were named after the white and red rose bushes their mother grew.
I already explained Cinderella in my own post.
Miranda
As for Snow-White, her mother did indeed prick her finger sewing. Her blood dropped on either the snow on her windowsill or her snow-white sewing fabric, depending on the version of the tale, and the beauty of that combined with the ebony windowsill or sewing frame (depending on the version) made her wish for a child as red as blood, as white as snow, and as black as ebony. Strangely, when the child was born, she was named after only one of these attributes.
Another story featuring a snow-white, blood-red child is "The Juniper Tree", where the mother cuts her finger peeling apples. The child is a boy, however, which is interesting. The story itself is quite gruesome (it even features the murder and cannibalism of the little boy), but naturally has a happy ending.
And of course there's the Snow-White of "Snow-White and Rose-Red", the sister to the Rose-Red of the title. These children were named after the white and red rose bushes their mother grew.
I already explained Cinderella in my own post.
Miranda
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