The Sleeping Beauty by The Brothers Grimm - Full Audiobook | Relaxing Bedtime Stories 🪡

the sleeping beauty by the Brothers Grimm a long time ago there were a king  and queen who said every day ah if only we had a child but they never had one but  it happened that once when the queen was bathing a frog crept out of the water onto the land  and said to her your wish shall be fulfilled before a year has gone by you shall have a  daughter what the frog had said came true and the queen had a little girl who was so pretty  that the king could not contain himself for joy and ordered a gr

eat feast he invited not only  his kindred friends and acquaintance but also the wise women in order that they might be  kind and well disposed towards the child there were 13 of them in his kingdom but as he  had only 12 golden plates for them to eat out of one of them had to be left at home the  feast was held with all manner of splendor and when it came to an end the wise women bestowed  their magic gifts upon the baby one gave virtue another beauty a third riches and so on with  everything i

n the world that one can wish for when 11 of them had made their promises suddenly  the 13th came in she wished to avenge herself for not having been invited and without greeting or  even looking at anyone she cried with a loud voice the king's daughter shall in her 15th year prick  herself with a spindle and fall down dead and without saying a word more she turned  round and left the room they were all shocked but the twelfth whose good wish  still remained unspoken came forward and she could n

ot undo the evil  sentence but only soften it she said it shall not be death but a deep sleep of  a hundred years into which the princess shall fall the king who would feign keep his  dear child from the misfortune gave orders that every spindle in the whole kingdom should  be burnt meanwhile the gifts of the wise women were plenteously fulfilled on the young girl for  she was so beautiful modest good-natured and wise that everyone who saw her was bound to love her  it happened that on the very

day when she was 15 years old the king and queen were not at home  and the maiden was left in the palace quite alone so she went round into all sorts of places looked  into rooms and bed chambers just as she liked and at last came to an old tower she  climbed up the narrow winding staircase and reached a little door a rusty key was in the  lock and when she turned it the door sprang open and there in a little room sat an old woman  with a spindle busily spinning her flax good day old dame said t

he king's daughter what  are you doing there i am spinning said the old woman and nodded her head what sort of thing is  that that rattles round so merrily said the girl and she took the spindle and wanted to spin  too but scarcely had she touched the spindle when the magic decree was fulfilled and she  pricked her finger with it and in the very moment when she felt the prick she fell down upon  the bed that stood there and lay in a deep sleep and this sleep extended over the whole palace  the k

ing and queen who had just come home and had entered the great hall began to go to  sleep and the whole of the court with them the horses too went to sleep in the stable  the dogs in the yard the pigeons upon the roof the flies on the wall even the  fire that was flaming on the hearth became quiet and slept the roast meat left off  frizzling and the cook who was just going to pull the hair of the scullery boy because he had  forgotten something let him go and went to sleep and the wind fell and

on the trees  before the castle not a leaf moved again but round about the castle there began to  grow a hedge of thorns which every year became higher and at last grew close up round  the castle and all over it so that there was nothing of it to be seen not even the flag  upon the roof but the story of the beautiful sleeping briar rose for so the princess was named  went about the country so that from time to time king's sons came and tried to get through the  thorny hedge into the castle but t

hey found it impossible for the thorns held fast together as if  they had hands and the youths were caught in them could not get loose again and died a miserable  death after long long years a king's son came again to that country and heard an old man  talking about the thornhedge and that a castle was said to stand behind it in which a wonderfully  beautiful princess named briar rose had been asleep for a hundred years and that the king and  queen and the whole court were asleep likewise he had

heard too from his grandfather that many  king sons had already come and had tried to get through the thorny hedge but they had remained  sticking fast in it and had died a pitiful death then the youth said i am not afraid i  will go and see the beautiful briar rose the good old man might dissuade him as he would he  did not listen to his words but by this time the hundred years had just passed and the day had come  when briar rose was to awake again when the king's son came near to the thornhe

dge it was nothing but  large and beautiful flowers which parted from each other of their own accord and let him pass unhurt  then they closed again behind him like a hedge in the castle yard he saw the horses and the  spotted hounds lying asleep on the roof sat the pigeons with their heads under their wings  and when he entered the house the flies were asleep upon the wall the cook in the kitchen  was still holding out his hand to seize the boy and the maid was sitting by the black hen which  h

e was going to pluck he went on farther and in the great hall he saw the whole of the court lying  asleep and up by the throne lay the king and queen then he went on still father and all was so quiet  that breath could be heard and at last he came to the tower and opened the door into the little  room where briar rose was sleeping there she lay so beautiful that he could not turn his eyes  away and he stooped down and gave her a kiss but as soon as he kissed her briar rose  opened her eyes and a

woke and looked at him quite sweetly then they went down together and  the king awoke and the queen and the whole court and looked at each other in great astonishment  and the horses in the courtyard stood up and shook themselves the hounds jumped and wagged  their tails the pigeons upon the roof pulled out their heads from under their wings looked  round and flew into the open country the flies on the wall crept again the fire in the kitchen  burned up and flickered and cooked the meat the join

t began to turn and frizzle again and the  cook gave the boy such a box on the ear that he screamed and the maid plucked the fowl ready for  the spit and then the marriage of the king's son with briar rose was celebrated with all splendor  and they lived contented to the end of their days thank you for listening to the  sleeping beauty by the brothers grimm