Sleeping Beauty is the 10th in this series of story telling. Read stories, comprehend well, ask questions, answer rightly and improve your language skills.

1. Walt Disney Series X
Sleeping
Beauty
Babu Appat

3. Sleeping Beauty
 Walt Disney Series X

4. Walt Disney Series X
In this series I will tell you some stories
Selected from world classics.
It’s to improve your
 Language skills,
 Listening skills,
 Narrative skills,
 Vocabulary, and
 Comprehensive abilities

5. Please Read on:
Once upon a time there lived a King and
Queen who longed so much to have a
baby.
And when they finally had a daughter
they were very happy.

6. They called her Aurora, which
mean dawn – like the sun at
the dawn she brightened their
lives.

7. People from far and near
flocked to the castle to convey
their good wishes.

8. The three good fairies Flora,
Fauna and Merryweather also
arrived to bless Aurora.

9. Flora blessed the princess
with beauty while Fauna
blessed her with the gift of
song.

10. But as Merryweather was
about to give her gift to the
baby, a gust of wind blew open
the doors.

11. There was a flash of lightning
and a flash of thunder.

12. Suddenly a bright flame began
to burn in the hall, which took
the shape of a woman.

13. The wicked fairy Maleficent
had arrived and to show anger
at not having been invited she
cursed the baby…

14. “On her sixteenth birthday
your daughter shall prick her
finger on the spindle of a
spinning wheel and die!” she
said.

15. The good fairies could not
undo the curse, but they
changed it.

16. “She shall not die, but sleep
until a kiss of the true love
breaks the spell,” said
Merryweather.

17. The King and Queen would do
anything to protect their
daughter.

18. The King ordered that all
spinning wheels in the
Kingdom be burned.
But the fairies thought this
was not safe enough.

19. We will raise your daughter
and bring her back when the
curse ends on her seventeenth
birthday,” they offered.

20. So they brought the baby to
the woods and as the years
went by she grew more and
more beautiful.

21. On her sixteenth birthday, the
good fairies sent Aurora out
into the woods to pick berries,
so that they had time to
prepare a party.

22. She walked along happily
singing when suddenly she
heard someone say: “What a
lovely voice”

23. Aurora turned around and saw
the most wonderful young man
and without thinking she
invited him to the cottage that
very night.

24. When Aurora came back to the
fairies she was all excited.

25. “I think I have fallen in love,”
she said and told them all
about the young man in the
wood and the invitation.

26. The fairies knew the time had
come to tell the truth.

27. They told Aurora the whole
story and then they all began
the long journey back to the
castle.

28. But all Aurora could think of
was the young man who would
come to the cottage in vain.

29. When Princess Aurora arrived
at the castle, Maleficent put a
spell on her and in a trance
she went to a secret room in a
tower where Maleficient had
hidden a spinning wheel.

30. Aurora touched the spindle
and fell into deep sleep.

31. In the meantime, Flora had
found out that Aurora’s young
man was Prince Philip.

32. Now it was time to find him –
only his kiss could save the
Princess.

33. That night when Prince Philip
went to visit Aurora in the
cottage he was surprised by
the terrible Maleficent.

34. “Capture him!” she shouted to
her henchmen, “he is the only
one who has the power to
break my curse on Aurora.”

35. Prince Philip was brought to
Maleficent’s dungeon and
there she revealed to him that
his girl from the wood was
really a Princess.

36. Luckily the good fairies found
Maleficent’s dungeon and with
wisdom and magic they
managed to save the Prince
from Maleficent and her
henchmen.

37. “These weapons will help you
triumph over all evil,” they said
and gave him a Shield of Virtue
and a Sword of Truth.

38. Then Prince Philip rushed off
to save his Princess.

39. As he got close to the palace,
Maleficent let a wall of thorns
grow up in front of him, but he
cut his way through that.

40. Then she turned herself into a
fuming dragon.

41. It seemed an impossible battle,
but after an exhausting fight
with the weapons the good
fairies had given him, Prince
Philip finally won and raced
through the palace gates.

42. In a room in the tower he
found his beautiful, sleeping
Aurora.

43. “Wake up, my lovely
Princess,” he whispered and
kissed her gently on her lips.

44. Aurora woke up and smiled to
her prince. Together they left
the chamber and descended
the stairs.

45. The Prince brought her to her
parents and they were happily
reunited.

46. And that night everyone at the
castle celebrated.

47. Princess Aurora and Prince
Philip danced in each other’s
arms the whole night.

48. “Who would have dreamed
that all this would end so
happily,” the King sighed and
felt very pleased.

49. "The Sleeping Beauty (French: La Belle
au bois dormant, "The Beauty sleeping
in the wood") by Charles Perrault or
"Little Briar Rose"
(German: Dornröschen) by the Brothers
Grimm is a classic fairytale involving a
beautiful princess, enchantment of
sleep, and a handsome prince. Written
as an original literary tale, it was first
published by Charles
Perrault in Histoires ou contes du temps
passéin 1697.

50. Questions:
1. What is the name of the Sleeping Beauty?
2. Who is Maleficent?
3. List out the Characters of the fairy-tale.

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