Scribd
Upload
41 views2 pages

Leeping Eauty: Illustrated by Narrated by

The king and queen had long wanted a child and were overjoyed when the queen gave birth to a beautiful daughter. They held a celebration for the princess and invited 12 good fairies to bless her with gifts. However, they mistakenly did not invite the 13th fairy who was angry. At the celebration, the first 11 fairies blessed the princess with gifts while the 12th fairy could only partially undo the curse from the 13th fairy that the princess would prick her finger on a spindle and fall asleep for 100 years.

Uploaded by

James Carlo Maderazo Camarines
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
41 views2 pages

Leeping Eauty: Illustrated by Narrated by

The king and queen had long wanted a child and were overjoyed when the queen gave birth to a beautiful daughter. They held a celebration for the princess and invited 12 good fairies to bless her with gifts. However, they mistakenly did not invite the 13th fairy who was angry. At the celebration, the first 11 fairies blessed the princess with gifts while the 12th fairy could only partially undo the curse from the 13th fairy that the princess would prick her finger on a spindle and fall asleep for 100 years.

Uploaded by

James Carlo Maderazo Camarines
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
You are on page 1/ 2

SLEEPING BEAUTY

Illustrated by Aswin Amarnath


Narrated by Sharon Blumberg

Once upon a time, in the days when there were fairies, a king and queen
reigned in a country far away. Now this king and queen had plenty of
money, plenty of fine clothes to wear, plenty of good things to eat and
drink and a coach to ride out in every day. However, although they had
been married many years, they had no children. This saddened them
very much, as they dearly wanted a child.
One day, as the queen was walking by the side of the river at the
bottom of the garden, she saw a poor little fish that had thrown itself out
of the water and lay gasping and nearly dead on the bank. The queen
took pity on the little fish and threw it back again into the river. Before it
swam away, it raised its head out of the water and said “I know what
your wish is and it shall come true, in return for your kindness to me —
you will soon have a daughter.”

What the little fish had said soon happened and the queen had a
little girl, so very beautiful, that the king could not stop looking at her he
was so happy. He said he would throw a great party and show the child
to all the land, so he asked his kinsmen, nobles, friends, and neighbours.
But the queen said “I will have the fairies also, that they might be kind
and good to our little daughter.”
Now there were thirteen fairies in the kingdom, but as the king and
queen had only twelve golden dishes for them to eat out of, they were
forced to leave one of the fairies without asking her. So twelve fairies
came, each with a high red cap on her head, red shoes with high heels
on her feet and a long white wand in her hand. After the feast was over
they gathered round in a ring and gave all their best gifts to the little
princess. One gave her goodness, another beauty, another riches, and
so on till she had all that was good in the world.
Just as eleven of them had done blessing her, a great noise was
heard in the courtyard and word was brought that the thirteenth fairy
had come, with a black cap on her head, black shoes on her feet and a
broomstick in her hand. She quickly came up into the dining-hall. Now,
as she had not been asked to the feast she was very angry, scolded the
king and queen very much and set to work to take her revenge. So she
cried out “The king’s daughter shall, in her fifteenth year, be wounded by
a spindle, and fall down dead.”

Then the twelfth of the friendly fairies, who had not yet given her
gift, came forward, and said that the evil wish must be fulfilled, but that
she could soften its mischief; so her gift was, that the king’s daughter,
when the spindle wounded her, should not really die, but should only fall
asleep for a hundred years.

You might also like