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"Briar Rose", also known as "Sleeping Beauty", is a fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm. It tells the story of a princess who is cursed by a spiteful fairy to die by pricking her finger on a spinning wheel's spindle on her sixteenth birthday. However, a good fairy changes the curse to a deep sleep instead of death. The princess, her castle, and all its inhabitants sleep for a hundred years until a prince braves a thick briar hedge and wakes her with a kiss, breaking the spell.

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But the moment he kissed her she opened her eyes and awoke, and smiled
upon him; and they went out together; and soon the king and queen also
awoke, and all the court, and gazed on each other with great wonder.
And the horses shook themselves, and the dogs jumped up and barked; the
pigeons took their heads from under their wings, and looked about and
flew into the fields; the flies on the walls buzzed again; the fire in
the kitchen blazed up; round went the jack, and round went the spit,
with the goose for the king’s dinner upon it; the butler finished his
draught of ale; the maid went on plucking the fowl; and the cook gave
the boy the box on his ear.

And then the prince and Briar Rose were married, and the wedding feast
was given; and they lived happily together all their lives long.
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