Brothers Grimm. "The Sleeping Beauty." Grimm’s Fairy Tales, illustrated by Walter Crane and E. H. Wehnert, Chicago: Donohue, Henneberry & Co., 1896.

Tale Summary

The story begins with a frog announcing that the king and queen will have a child in a year’s time. After the birth, the king holds a great feast, inviting twelve of the thirteen wise women in his kingdom to gain favor for the child. After eleven of the twelve wise women have bestowed great gifts on the child, the uninvited thirteenth declares that the princess will be cursed to die by pricking herself with a spindle during her fifteenth year. Since the twelfth wise woman had not yet given her gift, she says that instead of death, the princess will fall into a deep slumber for a hundred years. The princess, Rosamond, pricks her finger in her fifteenth year and fulfills the prophecy, where she falls into a deep sleep along with the entire castle. On the day when Rosamond should awaken, a prince passes through the hedge witnessing the magical slumber the court is under and eventually finds himself next to the princess. He cannot contain himself and kisses her, whereupon Rosamond awakes along with the entire court. The prince and Rosamond get married and live happily together until the end.