A Grim Tale

SLEEPY BEAUTY

Once upon a time there was a Queen who had a beautiful baby daughter. She asked all the fairies in the kingdom to the christening, but unfortunately forgot to invite one of them, who was a bit of a witch as well. She came anyway, but as she passed the baby's cradle, she said:

"When you are sixteen, you will injure yourself 

with a spindle and die!"

"Oh, no!" screamed the Queen in horror. A good fairy quickly chanted a magic spell to change the curse. 

When she hurt herself, the girl would fall into 

a very deep sleep instead of dying.

The years went by, the little Princess grew and became the most beautiful girl in the whole kingdom. Her mother was always very careful to keep her away from spindles, but the Princess, on her sixteenth birthday, 

as she wandered through the castle, 

came into a room where an old servant was spinning.

"What are you doing?" she asked the servant.

"I'm spinning. Haven't you seen a spindle before?"

"No. Let me see it!" The servant handed the girl the spindle ... and she pricked herself with it 

and with a sigh, dropped to the floor.

The terrified old woman hurried to tell the Queen. Beside herself with anguish, the Queen did her best to awaken her daughter but in vain. The court doctors and wizards were called, but there was nothing they could do. So all the time she was sleeping... and now she is sleeping too, because this isn't the original tale about sleepy beauty, this is a different story. 

And now the sleepy beauty is having a nigthmare about herself... she´s dreaming she can´t awake and the days go by only dreaming. 

One of those days the nightmare she had was the creepiest of all: only a tale like this could finish the damn. So we need more dull stories to have a good end for the princess... 

Now it´s your turn to think about how the beauty could be safe!! The Grim Tale is really a story without an end, because, like true life, sometimes the things don't have it, and this is the most terrifying of all, isn`t it?

JUST THINK ABOUT IT!!

Coming soon: a Grim Tale

Acabamos de pasar una fiesta y dentro de poco llegará otra... nos estamos refiriendo al día 1 de Noviembre, fecha en que nos acordamos de todos los que se fueron.

Antes de eso, el 31 de octubre, saldrán por las calles todo tipo de monstruos y seres fantásticos que pondrán la nota más disparatada y más asilvestrada a una noche para pasarlo de miedo. Halloween sirve para disfrazar muchos de nuestros temores y sacarlos fuera. Escoger la indumentaria este año es más difícil, porque si de darle tintes de verdadero miedo se trata, a ver cómo nos ponemos un disfraz de "estoy en la cola del paro" o "tengo mi vida hipotecada" pero al menos para desahogarnos valdrá. Entonces se nos ocurre que de alguna guillotina penderán cabezas varias (se prestan unas cuantas) o andarán anclados del potro de torturas otros tantos...

Nosotros estaremos con nuestra fiesta de siempre, donde las risas las pondrán los niños y solo nos moveremos con los sustos, nada de que cunda el pánico.

Y como de aprender se trata, en lo siniestro de los cuentos, les contaremos "A Grim* Tale", que de los hermanos Grimm algo lleva... una bella durmiente que nada tiene que ver con la versión que ha llegado a las pantallas...

Ya sabéis: COMING SOON !

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* Grim: en inglés siniestro.

** Los hermanos Grimm: escritores famosos por sus cuentos.

Un juego de palabras en inglés ;P