SLEEPING BEAUTY

          Once upon a time, there was a Queen who had a beautiful baby daughter. She asked all the fairies in the kingdom to the christening, but she forgot to invite one of them. A witch came anyway, and said to the baby, “When you are sixteen, you will injure yourself with a spindle and die!” Then, 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 went by, the little Princess grew and became a beautiful girl. The Queen was always very carefull to keep her from spindles. But when she was sixteen years old, she wandered through the castle and found a room where and old servant was spinning. The Princess saw the spindle and she pricked herself with it then dropped to the floor.

          The old woman hurried to tell the Queen. The Queen did her best to awaken her daughter but in vain. The doctors and wizard were called, but they could not do anything. The Princess could not wakened from her deep sleep. The good fairy said that “love” was the only one which made her awaken.

          The sleeping Princess was taken to her room and laid on the bed. She was so beautiful. The good fairy worried if there’s no one beside the girl when she awaken. So the fairy made all of in the castle fell into a deep sleep. “When the Princess wakes up, they will awaken too, and life will go on from there,” thought the fairy. And she left the castle, now wrapped in silence.

          The years past. In the ground of the castle, the trees grew tall. The bushes became thick and straggling, the grass spreaded up the walls on the courtyards. In a hundred years, the dense forest grew up.

          A Prince arrived in these parts. He was the son of a king in the kingdom in a country close by. Young and handsome. He was wandering on his trusty steed. One day, he arrived at the dark forest. A few hours later, he could see something through the trees. He pushed back the brances and he saw a castle with high tower in front of him. He went there and found the people. He thought that they dead. But in a moment, he realised that they were sound asleep. “Wake up! Wake up!” he shouted but nobody moved. He walked around the castle and he found the room where the Princess lay fast asleep. For a long time, he looked at her face and he fell in love with her. He went close, lifted the girl’s little white hand and gently kissed it.

At that kiss, the princess quickly opened her eyes. The spell was broken. And all of the people in the castle woke up too. The Princess happier than ever. Finally, the Prince and the Princess get married. They lived happily ever after.

Source: http://www.fpx.de/fp/Disney/Tales/SleepingBeauty.html

Moral value: Be a good mother, keep our children. Especially our daughter.