Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm

“ Rose had been asleep for the last hundred years, and with her slept the King, Queen, and all her courtiers. He knew also, from his grandfather, that many princes had already come and sought to pierce through the briar hedge, and had remained caught in it and died a sad death. Then the young Prince said, ‘I am not afraid; I am determined to go and look upon the lovely Briar Rose.’
The young Prince said. ‘I am not afraid; I am determined to go and look upon the lovely Briar Rose.’
The good old man did all in his power to dissuade him, but the Prince would not listen to his words. ”

“ When eleven of the fairies had said their say, the thirteenth suddenly appeared. She wanted to revenge herself for not having been invited. Without greeting any one, or even glancing at the company, she called out in a loud voice: ‘The Princess shall prick herself with a distaff in her fifteenth year and shall fall down dead’ ”

“ As time went on all the promises of the fairies came true. The Princess grew up so beautiful, modest, kind, and clever that every one who saw her could not but love her. Now it happened that on the very day when she was fifteen years old the King and Queen were away from home, and the Princess was left quite alone in the castle. ”