Editing Spinning wheel (section)

====Sleeping Beauty====
Another [[Folklore|folk tale]] that incorporates spinning wheels is the classic [[fairy tale]] ''[[Sleeping Beauty]]'', in which the main character pricks her hand or finger on the magic [[Spindle (textiles)|spindle]] of a spinning wheel and falls into a deep sleep following a [[wicked fairy godmother|wicked fairy]] or [[witchcraft|witch]]'s curse.

Numerous variations of the tale exist (the Brothers Grimm had one in their collection entitled Little Briar Rose), and in only some of them is the spindle actually attached to/associated with a spinning wheel.{{Citation needed|date=February 2019}} A traditional spindle does not have a sharp end that could prick a person's finger (unlike the walking wheel, often used for wool spinning). Despite this, the narrative idea persists that Sleeping Beauty or Briar Rose or Dornrosen pricks her finger on the spindle – a device which she has never seen before, as they have been banned from the kingdom in a forlorn attempt to prevent the curse of the wicked godmother-fairy.

[[Walt Disney]] included the Saxony or flax wheel in their [[Sleeping Beauty (1959 film)|animated film version]] of Perrault's tale and [[Aurora (Sleeping Beauty)|Rose]] pricks her finger on the distaff (which holds the plant fibre waiting to be spun), whereas only a spindle is used in [[Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky|Tchaikovsky]]'s ballet ''[[The Sleeping Beauty (ballet)|The Sleeping Beauty]]'' which is closer to the direct translation of the French "un fuseau".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CWsAAAAAMAAJ&pg=PP15|title=Les contes de Perrault: d'après les textes originaux; avec notices, notes et variantes, et une étude sur leurs origines et leur sens mythique|first=Charles|last=Perrault|date=1 January 1880|publisher=A. Lemerre|via=Google Books}}</ref>