Dornröschen

In the organizer's words:

Finally, the time had come for the big party to begin! It was to be a lavish party with all the trimmings, celebrated in honor of the king's newborn daughter. Everyone was invited, including the fairies, each of whom was given a golden plate at the large banquet table. Although there were only twelve plates, a solution was found: the thirteenth fairy was simply not invited. The fairies present presented the child with miraculous gifts in turn: one with virtue, the other with beauty, the third with wealth. But before the last of the fairies could express her good wish, the thirteenth fairy, who had not been invited, entered - offended and full of rage. And she uttered a terrible curse: "The king's daughter shall prick herself on a spindle in her fifteenth year and fall dead." Then the twelfth of the fairies, who still had her wish, came forward, and because she could not lift the evil spell, but only soften it, she said: "But it shall not be death, but a hundred years of deep sleep into which the king's daughter shall fall." And although the king sent messengers throughout the kingdom and had all the spindles burned, the inevitable happened. The prick of a spindle caused the king's daughter to fall into a deep sleep and with her the entire court, right down to the doves on the roof. And a thick hedge of thorns grew and surrounded the sleeping castle ...

The fairy tale of the Hundred Years' Sleep has fascinated children and adults alike for centuries. It goes back to Charles Perrault's story La belle au bois dormant(The Sleeping Beauty in the Woods), which was published in 1697. Thanks to Marie Hassenpflug, a friend of Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm, the fairy tale also became famous in Germany. The eldest daughter of an administrative official with French roots, she told them several stories. The Grimms included Sleeping Beauty in their children's and household tales. It became one of the most popular fairy tales in the collection.