I will not allow the thirteenth wise woman to change the fate of my child. Nothing will happen on her fifteenth birthday. She will not prick her finger on a spindle and fall asleep for a hundred years! I will not have any of the queen’s women meddling in my daughter’s future. Out with them, and all their spindles!

Burn their spindles! Burn their spinning wheels. Burn every point there is!

The King Who Orders the Spindles Burnt in The Briar Rose, Grimms. Illustration by Arthur Rackham.