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Maleficent curses the young princess by announcing that she will prick her finger on a spinning wheel's spindle and die before sunset on her 16th ... Princess Aurora. Bill Shirley. Prince Phillip.

The first Disney Princess was, of course, Snow White, followed by Cinderella in 1950 and Aurora from Sleeping Beauty. ... she pricks her finger on the spindle of a spinning wheel and dies.

It’s the story of Princess Aurora, who is put under a spell at birth by the bad fairy, Maleficent. She is to prick her finger on a spinning wheel and die before she grows up.