Briar-Rose a.k.a Sleeping Beauty, was the long awaited, and greatly celebrated Princess whose birth was prophesied by a little green frog. At the royal Christening for Briar-Rose it was the tradition to have a huge feast and invite all of the fairies of the land to come and bestow "gifts" upon the new Princess. There were 13 fairies in all, and all save one would be attending. One, was a recluse who no one had seen in at least 50 years. Infuriated that she had been left out of the celebration, she showed up at the celebration and cursed the Princess with a death- curse on her 15th year. Briar-Rose's saving grace was that one of the good fairies had stayed back and saved her gift. While she could not undo the death gift, she could amend it a bit so that the child would not die, but rather be put into a deep sleep for 100 years, only to be awakened by a King's son. |