Grimm Bros.' The Sleeping Beauty (Briar Rose) 

The king and queen have difficulty conceiving, but while the queen is bathing a frog comes up from the pond and informs her she’ll have a baby within the year.  For the birth, the king invites twelve of the thirteen of the wise women.  Enraged, the thirteenth interrupts the blessings of her companions to prophesize that Briar Rose will prick her finger on a spindle and die on her fifteenth birthday.  The twelfth softens the curse’s sentence to a century of sleep of the whole kingdom.  

The king and queen attempt to protect their daughter from all ills in the years that follow.  On her fifteenth birthday, her parents gone, Briar Rose explores the castle.  Climbing a tower, she finds a door with a rusty key in the lock.  Within is an old woman at a spindle.  Intrigued, Rose asks to use the unfamiliar device and is immediately pricked and everything falls into a deep slumber.  Even the trees and the wind fall silent.

The king and queen return home and join the others in slumber.  After a century, various princes have failed to make their way through the thornbush walls, but now a prince comes and finds they’ve been replaced by roses.  He makes his way into the castle and kisses Briar Rose, and she and everyone and everything else wake up and continue as if there has been no pause.  The prince and Rose are married and live happily ever after.

(Sorry about the bad sound on both our ends.  It’s been corrected in future episodes.)

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