Sleeping Beauty Hotel
Then the old fairy gave her gift. He back was bent with age and all could see that her face was creased with hate.
She shall die when her hand is pierced by a spindke,'the old fairy cursed.
This was a terrible gift. There were shouts of anger at the old fairy but nthere was nothing that anyone could do about it.
Then the youngest fairy came out from behind the curtain.
'The princess will not die,' she said.' I can't undo all the evil that theever old fairy has done, but my gift is a promise. Instead of dying, the princess will fall into a ling, ling sleep, a sleep that will last for a hundred years. in the end she will be woken by a king's son.'
Everyone sighed woth relief at this news and the old fairy left the palace sulking and in a great fury.
A hundred years indeed,' she mumbled.' They will all be dead by then.'
The king immediately gave orders that there should be no more-spinning done in the palace. All spindles and distaffs were locked up or thrown into the moat.
Anyone dislbeying the order was to be punished by death.
All went well for fifteen years and the young princess grew up without ever having seen a spindle in her life. But one summer, when the king and the queen were away on a visit to another castle, the princess explored a part of the castle she had never visited before.
There, in a lofty turret room, at the extreme north end of the palace, she found an old woman working at a spindle. You can tell how large nthe palace was, for the woman had never heard of the king's order nor ever seen the princess.
'What are you doing?' said the princess.
