At the of a king and queen's long-wished-for child, seven good are invited to be to the infant princess. The fairies attend the banquet at the palace. Each fairy is presented with a golden plate and drinking cups adorned with jewels.
Soon after, an old enters the palace and is seated with a plate of fine china and a crystal drinking glass. This old fairy is overlooked because she has been within a tower for many years and everyone had believed her to be deceased.
Six of the other seven fairies then offer their gifts of beauty, wit, grace, dance, song, and goodness to the infant princess.
The evil fairy is very angry about having been forgotten, and as her gift enchants the infant princess so that she will one day prick her finger on a spindle of a spinning wheel and die.
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The Sun, The Moon, and The Seventh
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