"When you are sixteen, you will injure yourself with a spindle and die!"
"Oh, no!" screamed the Queen in horror.
Suddenly, a good fairy quickly chanted a magic spell to change the curse. When she hurt herself, the girl would fall into a very deep sleep instead of dying.
The years when by went, the baby princess grew and become the most beautiful girl in the kingdom. Although the queen always keep the princess away from spindles but on her sixteenth birthday, something happened. When she wandered around the castle, she came to a room where an old servant was spinning.
"What are you doing?" she asked the servant.
"I'm spinning. Haven't you seen a spindle before?"
"No. Let me see it!" The servant handed the girl the spindle and she pricked herself with it and with a sigh, the princess dropped to the floor.
After that, the wicked witch tell the Queen that her daughter was sleep instead of dying. The Queen did her best to awaken her daughter but in failed. The court doctors and wizards were called, but there was nothing they could do. The girl could not be wakened from her deep sleep. The good fairy who managed to avoid the worst of the curse came too, and the Queen said to her,
"When will my daughter waken?"
"I don't know," the fairy admitted sadly.
"In a year's time, ten years or twenty?" the Queen went on.
"Maybe in a hundred years' time. Who knows?" said the fairy.
"Oh! What would make her waken?" asked the Queen.
"Love," replied the fairy. "If a man of pure heart were to fall in love with her, that would bring her back to life!
"How can a man fall in love with a sleeping girl?" answer the Queen. She felt so sad and so heart-broken. Because of that, a few days later she died. The sleeping Princess was taken to her room and laid on the bed surrounded by garlands of flowers. She was so beautiful, with a sweet face, not like those of the dead, but pink like those who are sleeping peacefully. The good fairy said to herself,
"When she wakens, who is she going to see around her? Strange faces and people she doesn't know? I can never let that happen. It would be too painful for this unfortunate girl."
The fairy cast a spell, and everyone that lived in the castle like soldiers, ministers, guards, servants, ladies, pages, cooks, maids and knights, all fell into a deep sleep, wherever they were at that very moment.
"Now," thought the fairy, "when the Princess wakes up, they too will awaken, and life will go on from there." And she left the castle, now wrapped in silence. Not a sound was to be heard, nothing moved except for the clocks, but when they too ran down, they stopped, and time stopped with them.
The years sped past. In a hundred years, a dense forest grew up. Now, it so happened that a Prince arrived in these parts. He was the son of a king in a country close by. Young, handsome and melancholy, he sought in solitude everything he could not find in the company of other men, serenity, sincerity and purity. Wandering on his trusty steed he arrived, one day, at the dark forest. Being adventurous, he attracted to explore it. A few hours later, now give up, he was about to turn his horse and go back. But suddenly when he thought he could see something through the trees , he pushed back the branches . Impossible! There in front of him stood a castle with high towers. The young man stood stock still in amazement,
"I wonder who this castle belongs to?" he thought.
The young Prince rode on towards the castle. The drawbridge was down and, holding his horse by the reins, he crossed over it. Immediately he saw the inhabitants draped all over the steps, the halls and courtyards, and said to himself,
"Good heavens! They're dead!" But in a moment, he realized that they were sound asleep. "Wake up! Wake up!" he shouted, but nobody moved. Still thoroughly astonished, he went into the castle and discovered more people which is still sleeping. The Prince finally reached the room where the beautiful Princess lay fast asleep. For a long time he stood gazing at her face, so full of serenity, so peaceful, lovely and pure, and he felt spring to his heart that love he had always been searching for and never found. Overcome by emotion, he went close and kiss her.
At that kiss, the prlncess quickly opened her eyes, and wakening from her long long sleep, seeing the Prince beside her, then murmured:
"Oh, you have come at last! I was waiting for you in my dream. I've waited so long!"
Just then, the spell was broken. The Princess rose to her feet, holding out her hand to the Prince. And all people in the whole castle woke up too. Now, everyone awoke and smiling.
A few days later, the castle rang with the sound of singing, music and happy laughter at the Princess’s wedding . They lived happily ever after.
Source: www.fpx.de/fp/Disney/Tales/SleepingBeauty.html
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