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A long time ago there were a
king and queen who said every day, "Ah, if only we had a child," but
they never had one. But it happened that once when the queen was bathing, a
frog crept out of the water on to the land, and said to her, "Your wish
shall be fulfilled, before a year has gone by, you shall have a daughter."
What the frog had said came
true, and the queen had a little girl who was so pretty that the king could not
contain himself for joy, and ordered a great feast. He invited not only his
kindred, friends and acquaintances, but also the wise women, in order that they
might be kind and well disposed towards the child. There were thirteen of them
in his kingdom, but, as he had only twelve golden plates for them to eat out
of, one of them had to be left at home.
The feast was held with all
manner of splendor and when it came to an end the wise women bestowed their
magic gifts upon the baby - one gave virtue, another beauty, a third riches,
and so on with everything in the world that one can wish for.
When eleven of them had made
their promises, suddenly the thirteenth came in. She wished to avenge herself
for not having been invited, and without greeting, or even looking at anyone,
she cried with a loud voice, "The king's daughter shall in her fifteenth
year prick herself with a spindle, and fall down dead." And, without
saying a word more, she turned round and left the room.
They were all shocked, but
the twelfth, whose good wish still remained unspoken, came forward, and as she
could not undo the evil sentence, but only soften it, she said, it shall not be
death, but a deep sleep of a hundred years, into which the princess shall fall.
The king, who would fain
keep his dear child from the misfortune, gave orders that every spindle in the
whole kingdom should be burnt. Meanwhile the gifts of the wise women were
plenteously fulfilled on the young girl, for she was so beautiful, modest,
good-natured, and wise, that everyone who saw her was bound to love her.
It happened that on the very
day when she was fifteen years old, the king and queen were not at home, and
the maiden was left in the palace quite alone. So she went round into all sorts
of places, looked into rooms and bed-chambers just as she liked, and at last
came to an old tower. She climbed up the narrow winding staircase, and reached
a little door. A rusty key was in the lock, and when she turned it the door
sprang open, and there in a little room sat an old woman with a spindle, busily
spinning her flax.
"Good day, old
mother," said the king's daughter, "what are you doing there?"
"I am spinning," said the old woman,
and nodded her head.
"What sort of thing is
that, that rattles round so merrily," said the girl, and she took the
spindle and wanted to spin too. But scarcely had she touched the spindle when
the magic decree was fulfilled, and she pricked her finger with it.
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. And this sleep extended over the whole palace, the king and queen
who had just come home, and had entered the great hall, began to go to sleep,
and the whole of the court with them. The horses, too, went to sleep in the
stable, the dogs in the yard, the pigeons upon the roof, the flies on the wall,
even the fire that was flaming on the hearth became quiet and slept, the roast
meat left off frizzling, and the cook, who was just going to pull the hair of
the scullery boy, because he had forgotten something, let him go, and went to
sleep. And the wind fell, and on the trees before the castle not a leaf moved
again.
But round about the castle there
began to grow a hedge of thorns, which every year became higher, and at last
grew close up round the castle and all over it, so that there was nothing of it
to be seen, not even the flag upon the roof. But the story of the beautiful
sleeping Briar Rose, for so the princess was named, went about the country, so
that from time to time kings' sons came and tried to get through the thorny
hedge into the castle. But they found it impossible, for the thorns held fast
together, as if they had hands, and the youths were caught in them, could not
get loose again, and died a miserable death.
After long, long years a
king's son came again to that country, and heard an old man talking about the
thorn hedge, and that a castle was said to stand behind it in which a
wonderfully beautiful princess, named Briar Rose, had been asleep for a hundred
years, and that the king and queen and the whole court were asleep likewise. He
had heard, too, from his grandfather, that many kings, sons had already come,
and had tried to get through the thorny hedge, but they had remained sticking
fast in it, and had died a pitiful death.
Then the youth said, "I
am not afraid, I will go and see the beautiful Briar Rose." The good old
man might dissuade him as he would, he did not listen to his words.
But by this time the hundred
years had just passed, and the day had come when Briar Rose was to awake again.
When the king's son came near to the thorn hedge, it was nothing but large and
beautiful flowers, which parted from each other of their own accord, and let
him pass unhurt, then they closed again behind him like a hedge. In the castle
yard he saw the horses and the spotted hounds lying asleep, on the roof sat the
pigeons with their heads under their wings. And when he entered the house, the
flies were asleep upon the wall, the cook in the kitchen was still holding out
his hand to seize the boy, and the maid was sitting by the black hen which she
was going to pluck.
He went on farther, and in
the great hall he saw the whole of the court lying asleep, and up by the throne
lay the king and queen. Then he went on still farther, and all was so quiet
that a breath could be heard, and at last he came to the tower, and opened the
door into the little room where Briar Rose was sleeping.
There she lay, so beautiful
that he could not turn his eyes away, and he stooped down and gave her a kiss.
But as soon as he kissed her, Briar Rose opened her eyes and awoke, and looked
at him quite sweetly.
Then they went down
together, and the king awoke, and the queen, and the whole court, and looked at
each other in great astonishment. And the horses in the courtyard stood up and
shook themselves, the hounds jumped up and wagged their tails, the pigeons upon
the roof pulled out their heads from under their wings, looked round, and flew
into the open country, the flies on the wall crept again, the fire in the
kitchen burned up and flickered and cooked the meat, the joint began to turn
and sizzle again, and the cook gave the boy such a box on the ear that he screamed,
and the maid finished plucking the fowl.
And then the marriage of the
king's son with Briar Rose was celebrated with all splendor, and they lived
contented to the end of their days.
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