293 - Pricked by a Spindle - Symbolism in Sleeping Beauty
The Symbolic World
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The Importance of Symbolism
The idea is that you don't necessarily just discount it, especially if it's an important part of the story like the spindle in the sleeping beauty story. The other tradition was that she pricked her finger on a strand of flax. And so interestingly enough, it seems like those are actually opposite from each other. When you start to kind of understand what's going on, they seem like they're opposite from eachother.
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