A king wants to know how his daughters manage to go to bed each night with perfectly wearable shoes, but, in the morning, awaken to tattered and un-wearable slippers. Princes arrive from all corners of the land, but fail to discover the secret. Finally, a soldier is guided by an old woman to use a magic cloak (that will render him invisible) to follow the princesses. He follows them through a trap door to a magic garden that contains a lake and a castle. At this castle, the princesses dance the night away with twelve princes. Upon the return of the princesses to their bedroom, the soldier relays to the king all he has seen and is rewarded for his efforts with the eldest princess' hand in marriage.
In her magic garden, an enchantress has rows and rows of rampion (or rapunzel) growing. The woman next door sees it from her window and insists that she must have some to eat. Her husband sneaks into the garden and steals some for his wife. He is caught by the enchantress, who lets him go with the promise that she will get their first born child. This baby girl, Rapunzel, is taken away and placed in a tall tower with only a small window at the top. One day, a prince happens to hear the enchantress ask Rapunzel to let down her hair. He does the same, climbing up to meet and fall in love with Rapunzel. After many trials, the two finally return to his kingdom where they are married, making Rapunzel a princess.
Cinderella is the household maid to her stepmother. When the prince of the land invites all the maidens to a ball, her stepsisters are invited, but Cinderella is left behind. As she weeps in her garden, her fairy godmother appears and magically turns the garden's pumpkin, mice, lizards and rat into a coach, coachman, horses and footmen. She magically dresses Cinderella in a ball gown and sends her to the ball. Cinderella meets and falls in love with the Prince that night. When she leaves the ball, the Prince finds one of her glass slippers and searches the country for her. Once he finds her and fits the slipper on her foot, he makes her his bride, and Cinderella becomes a princess.
One day, the queen is in her garden walking by the water, when a magical fish throws himself out, landing beside her. She throws it back into the water. The magical fish then promises, in exchange for her kindness, that the queen will have a daughter. When Briar Rose is born, the king and queen invite the fairies to come and celebrate their daughter's birth. One fairy, however, is not invited, but shows up anyway and curses the princess with death at the age of fifteen. This curse is softened by one of the other fairies into sleep, not death. When the princess does fall into a deep sleep, all the inhabitants of the castle fall into an enchanted sleep, as well. After many years, a prince arrives, awaking the princess with a kiss. They marry and live happily ever after.