The old fairy curses the child in retaliation for being forgotten. Six of the fairies give the child various gifts: beauty, grace, dance, song, wit, and goodness. She is furious that they forgot her, believing her to be deceased. As this is happening, an old fairy comes to the feast and is given plates of china and a crystal drinking glass. They are given gold plates and cups with jewels when they attend the banquet. She is the long wished for child, and at her christening, seven fairies are invited to be her godmothers. The story opens with the birth of a princess. This oral tradition dates as far back as the fourteenth century and tells the tale of a sleeping princess who is under the spell of enchantment. “Sleeping Beauty” is a fairy tale collected by the Brother’s Grimm from an oral tradition written down by Charles Perrault in 1687.
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