- Regina Doman
- Waking Rose: A Fairy Tale Retold
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Table of Contents
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…Once upon a time...
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…there lived a king and queen who were made glad by the birth of a
daughter…
3
…and they prepared a great feast in honor of their daughter’s
christening, to which they invited the wise
women…
4
...and each of the wise women stepped forward to bestow on the
princess a gift…
5
...the first gave her the gift of virtue, and the second bestowed
beauty upon her...
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…but before the third of the wise women could speak her gift, there
was a clamor and another came in…
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...It was the last fairy, who came uninvited, full of wrath and
seeking to punish the king for his impudence…
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…she said, ‘the year the princess comes of age, she shall prick
herself on the needle of a spindle and fall down
dead.’
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...And the princess grew to full stature over the course of
years...
10 ...And the gifts of the wise women were plenteously
fulfilled in the young girl, that everyone who saw her was bound to
love her...
11 ...And on the day of the princess’s coming of age,
there was a grand ball, and she danced with many eligible
partners...
12 ...But though princes pressed for her hand, she
chose none of them. Then the next day she felt in a wandering
mood...
13 … she came to a deserted room she had never been in
before, where a woman sat spinning with a
spindle...
14 ...And the princess pricked herself on the sharp
point and fell into a deep sleep...
15 ...And this sleep extended all over the palace where
the princess lay...
16 …Many young men sought to rescue the princess, as
she lay in sleep.
17 ...And round the castle, a hedge of thorns grew high
and wide...
18 ...The thorns made it impossible for anyone to pass
through to disturb the sleeping princess...
19 ...From time to time, young men would try to get
through the hedge of thorns, but none
succeeded...
20 …The story of the beautiful sleeping “Briar-Rose”
went about the country, and spread abroad.
21 ...But one king’s son resolved, against all dire
warnings, to pass through the thorns which had claimed the lives of
so many...
22 ...the king’s son approached the hedge of thorns, on
which many other young men had failed...
23 ...and though the thorns let him pass through
unhurt, they closed behind him as he
passed...
24 ...And the princess awoke.. .
25 ...And the princess looked at him and declared that
she would have him and none other for her
husband...
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