"...'The king's daughter shall, in her
fifteenth year, be wounded by a spindle, and fall down
dead.' Then the twelfth of the friendly fairies, who had
not yet given her gift, came forward, and said that the
evil wish must be fulfilled, but that she could soften its
mischief; so her gift was, that the king's daughter, when
the spindle wounded her, should not really die, but
should only fall asleep for a hundred years."
-The Brothers Grimm