Sleeping Beauty  Once upon a time there was a Queen who had a
beautiful baby daughter. She asked all the fairies in the
kingdom to the christening, but unfortunately forgot to invite
one of them, who was a bit of a witch as well. She came anyway,
but as she passed the baby's cradle, she said:  "When you are
sixteen, you will injure yourself with a spindle and die!"  "Oh,
no!" screamed the Queen in horror. A good fairy quickly chanted
a magic spell to change the curse. When she hurt herself, the
girl would fall into a very deep sleep instead of dying.  The
years went by, the little Princess grew and became the most
beautiful girl in the whole kingdom. Her mother was always very
careful to keep her away from spindles, but the Princess, on her
sixteenth birthday, as she wandered through the castle, came
into a room where an old servant was spinning.  "What are you
doing?" she asked the servant.  "I'm spinning. Haven't you seen
a spindle before?"  "No. Let me see it!" The servant handed the
girl the spindle ... a