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 what will happen."

To prevent the fulfillment of the sad prophecy, the kings prohibited, strictly and under extremely severe penalties, the use of spindles in the entire kingdom, and so notified all of their subjects, by means of edicts and

people that read them in all villages and places. Notwithstanding the effort, when the princess turned sixteen, while roaming though the palace rooms one day she reached an attic inhabited by an old lady, who unaware of the king's edicts was spinning with a spindle.