"The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood." Fairy Tales from France, William Trowbridge Larned, New York: P.F. Volland Company, 1920.

A king and a queen finally have a babe. They throw a feast in the child's honor and invite all seven fairies. To commemorate the importance of the fairies, they set out plates of gold and silverware inlaid with rubies. However, an old witch shows up. She was not invited because everyone thought that she was either dead or enchanted. The king offers her his own plate, but she takes her lack of invitation as a slight and starts grumbling. When it comes her time to bestow a gift, she wills that the princess will strike her thumb and fall down dead. The youngest fairy tempers the wish and decrees that the princess will sleep for a hundred years instead. The princess grows up to be accomplished and happy. One day, she starts exploring the castle and climbs to the top of a set of very tall stairs where she finds an old woman spinning. She pricks her finger and falls down asleep. This old woman is the wicked fairy, who wants to make sure the prophecy comes true. The young fairy comes and enchants everyone but the king and queen to fall asleep to keep the princess company. A thicket of trees grows up around the palace in order to shield it from the eyes of any passing busybody. A prince comes along one hundred years later, and finds himself curious about the castle. He parts the brambles and enters the wood towards the castle because he feels he might be the prince that sleeping beauty has been waiting for. He finds her and wakes her up with a kiss to her forehead. The whole court wakes up, and the prince and princess are married happily ever after.