
293 - Pricked by a Spindle - Symbolism in Sleeping Beauty
The Symbolic World
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The Spindle in the Disney Movie
In the Disney version, interestingly enough, they don't even, she doesn't even prick her finger on the, the spindle. She pricks her finger on something called the distaff, which is actually this big rod that people put on spinning wheels to tie the flax before its processes. The effusion of blood can either be the, the menstrual cycle itself and that would have something to do with the wheel or it can also be the loss of virginity. And you see that, of course, if you compare the Sleeping Beauty to Jairus's daughter, I've done how all of this is connected, right? You know, at her puberty,. with the fusion of the
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