Sleeping Beauty

Plots: After being snubbed by the royal family, a malevolent fairy places a curse on a princess which only a prince can break, along with the help of three good fairies. After the beautiful Princess Aurora is born into royalty, the entire kingdom gathers to celebrate, including three good fairies, Flora, Fauna, and Merryweather. Everything is perfectly fine until an uninvited guest appears, the evil fairy Maleficent. Maleficent curses the young princess by announcing that she will prick her finger on a spinning wheel’s spindle and die before sunset on her 16th birthday. Fortunately, one of the good fairies, Merryweather, softens the curse so Aurora will not die upon pricking her finger, but only sleep instead, and the only way to wake her from her deep sleep is true love’s kiss. Finally, the day comes. As the kingdom celebrates Princess Aurora’s birth, a trio of friendly fairies bestows gifts upon the newborn. But the celebration is interrupted by the arrival of the villainous witch Maleficent, who curses Aurora to prick her finger on a spinning wheel’s spindle and die before sunset on her 16th birthday. Disaster is averted when Merryweather softens the curse so Aurora would not die from pricking her finger but only sleep instead until true love’s kiss would wake her. Desperate to keep Aurora safe from Maleficent’s plot, the fairies adopt and raise her while living in a woodcutter’s cottage in the forest. But on her 16th birthday, when Aurora (Briar Rose) falls in love with a mysterious stranger, the fairies realize that the stranger is her betrothed Prince Phillip. That evening, back at her parents’ castle, Aurora is lured by Maleficent to prick her finger on a spinning wheel’s spindle, then Aurora falls into a deep sleep. The fairies and Phillip must face Maleficent and a monstrous dragon if the prince is to break Maleficent’s spell and bestow true love’s kiss on the sleeping Aurora.