Estimated, @honeydue, lo mean it by reading your previous posts. You do a work of high informative and reflective level. On the tema "Fairy Tales" and its pragmatic relationship there is much to say. You approach it with a lot of professionalism and coherence, in particular the Sleeping Beauty story. Although it's not my area of literature, I read about it several years ago. One of the authors I knew then (but not in depth) was the Austrian psychologist (I think) Bruno Bettelheim, who was already accusing the sexist and classist conditions of most such stories. In the ethnological and feminist line, perhaps there are many others. I don't think that this is why we should stop reading the so-called "fairy tales", which are nothing more than the marvellous and marvellous versions of peoples, originally expressed orally.
The story of Sleeping Beauty, as you well point out, can give rise to various considerations, depending on the point of view from which you see it. One of the aspects of the ones pointed out by you that most interested me is the one related to "the dark side of things", and that would be linked to the experience of reality and the psyche. How to understand sleep and awakening? Any interpretation, as long as it is based on serious criteria, will have validity. What will never disappear will be the magical and free sense of our consciousness and our reading. For the good of humanity!
Thank you for your excellent post, @honeydue, and @adsactly for spreading it.