He wakes her (iconically with a kiss) and they fall in love and marry (and eventually have offspring). Many years later, a prince (sometimes a king) makes his way into the now-overgrown sleeping castle, and finds the princess. Predictably, the moment she picks it up, the curse comes into effect, and she, accompanied by the rest of the castle, falls into a deep sleep. The princess is fascinated and asks if she can try spinning. She finds an old woman sitting there spinning: in some versions an innocent civilian in others the Wicked Fairy in disguise. The king and queen order all the spindles in their kingdom to be burnt, but the young princess finds one they happened to miss. None of the fairies can dispel the curse, but the youngest one succeeds in softening it from death to a death-like sleep. Unfortunately, they forget or otherwise ignore one, who shows up at the christening anyway and curses the girl to one day prick her finger on a spindle and die. And, in the very moment when she felt the prick, she fell down upon the bed that stood there, and lay in a deep sleep."Ī king and queen, childless for many years, finally succeed in giving birth to a little girl, and invite all the fairies they can think of to celebrate. "But scarcely had she touched the spindle when the magic decree was fulfilled, and she pricked her finger with it.
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