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The king had given a great party to celebrate, he invited his friends and the wise women to the
party. The wise women were so happy that they gave magical gifts to the little princess like virtue,
beauty, riches and many more until they reached the thirteenth wise woman; who arrived sad and
crying and said "I wish the king's daughter was pricked with a spindle and die" and the wise
woman escaped, but the twelfth wise woman changed the evil desire a little and said, "she will not
die, she will only sleep for a hundred years '' so the king decided to burn all the spindles of the
kingdom, the beautiful princess was growing and every day she was more beautiful, when she
turned fifteen she had become curious all over the castle and in the end came to a old tower
where she met an old woman with a spindle in her hands and the princess asked the old woman to
let her try to spin, when the princess took the spindle she pricks her finger.
Suddenly the princess fell on the bed and fell asleep. When she was asleep, the people of the
kingdom and the animals also fell asleep: the king, the queen, the cook, the servants, the horses,
the dogs, the pigeons and so on. They all fell into a deep sleep. Time passed and around the castle
a hedge of thorns began to grow, the townspeople began to tell the story and went all over the
country, many children of some kings heard the story and tried to help, but they did not succeed,
many died because of the great wall of thorns that surrounded the castle.
After a long time passed, a prince came to the kingdom and heard the story of the princess and
said ´´I am not afraid´´, when he got to the courtyard of the castle he found the hedge that
became beautiful big flowers and they let him pass when he entered the castle the hedge turned
into thorns again he reached the great hall and saw everyone asleep he followed, and went to
another room he opened the door and saw the princess, he approached him and kissed her, she
opened her eyes and he He looked sweetly, they went down together and saw everyone who
woke up, everything returned to normal, the king was very grateful to the prince and ordered the
servants and the cook to make preparations because the princess's wedding was going to be
celebrated.