Sleeping Beauty

On the occasion of their daughters birth the king and queen give a lavish feast Among the guests are twelve fairies who endow the infant in the cradle with all good qualities As the king loathes diligence he does not invite the thirteenth fairy the fairy of diligence A captain lets her slip into the castle and she casts a spell on Sleeping Beauty wishing death upon her The twelfth fairy transforms and mitigates the spell On the day she turns fifteen the princess is to sink into a hundredyear sleep after pricking her finger on a spindle