{"podcast":{"title":"Mysteries and Histories","slug":"mysteries-and-histories-1576928","podcast_index_feed_id":1576928,"rss_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/10f731918/podcast/rss","website_url":"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBTMJwtvyuP7XMgpofJWH5g/","image_url":"https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/staging/podcast_uploaded_nologo/45441686/06037aa4e36546ef.png","author":"Georgia Marie","episode_count":302,"summary":"Join Georgia as each week she talks you through important pieces of history that more people should know about or true crime cases that require more public attention - awareness and education are key!","last_synced_at":"2026-07-21T00:18:28.244014+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/mysteries-and-histories-1576928"},"episode":{"title":"The DARK TRUTH Behind the Story of Sleeping Beauty","slug":"the-dark-truth-behind-the-story-of-sleeping-beauty","published_at":"2026-05-20T17:00:01+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/mysteries-and-histories-1576928/the-dark-truth-behind-the-story-of-sleeping-beauty","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/mysteries-and-histories-1576928","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/georgiamariexo/episodes/The-DARK-TRUTH-Behind-the-Story-of-Sleeping-Beauty-e3jl8ht","audio_url":"https://traffic.megaphone.fm/APO7007984312.mp3","summary":"Long before she was a Disney princess, “Sleeping Beauty” was a much darker story about power, consent, and punishment. In the earliest versions, the sleeping girl isn’t woken with a kiss, but is assaulted in her sleep, gives birth without ever opening her eyes, and only wakes up when one of her children accidentally dislodges the enchanted splinter keeping her under. Later retellings softened the edges, turning rape into “true love’s kiss” and brutal revenge into a neat happily‑ever‑after—but that polished fairy tale still sits on top of a much more disturbing original: a warning about what happens to young women’s bodies when they’re treated as objects in someone else’s story.","meta_description":"Long before she was a Disney princess, “Sleeping Beauty” was a much darker story about power, consent, and punishment. In the earliest versions, the sleep…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1457,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/mysteries-and-histories-1576928/episodes/the-dark-truth-behind-the-story-of-sleeping-beauty/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/mysteries-and-histories-1576928/the-dark-truth-behind-the-story-of-sleeping-beauty.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}