**In 1663, about 100-150 people were born, all sharing an odd characteristic. What is it and how did it come to be?
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Note: this might be really quick and easy, mainly in the sense someone might have heard it already. If so, please let others try to solve it. Or, just blurt it out and this can be a quickie! 
(actually, can you explain the solution? I’m dense here)
In 1663, the year?
Was the characteristic physical?
Were the people who had it all born in the same country / region?
If it is 1663, the year, have any people with this characteristic been born in other years?
kk
Is 1663 a location?
YES…pretty much.
Address?
Postal code?
Name of a building?
The curse changes a word to a rhyming word. Break changed to bake, ball changed to hall, and so on.
It took me a second, but I got it. Her words all rhyme with what they mean:
“If only I could bake the hall in the candle of her brain.”
becomes
“If only I could break the ball in the handle of her cane.”
The witch cursed the princess to speak in spoonerisms, like when somebody says “you have hissed the mystery lectures” instead of the intended sentence “you have missed the history lectures.”
Bake the hall in the candle of her brain =
Break the ball in the handle of her cane
It was a Muppet fairy tale I remembered seeing when I was a lot younger.
kk
Is 1663 a hospital?
Were the people related?
Did the characteristic have to do with the place of their birth?
kk
Those aren’t Spoonerisms.
Is it a gene location?
Is it an ambulance?
Is it a vehicle?
A bus?
Is it a general location like a neighborhood?
Will figuring out what 1663 is help to solve this?
Is the characteristic the people share a genetic mutation?
Yes they are. Spoonerism are when you swap around the initial sounds or syllables of words in a sentence. (And the the ‘mystery lectures’ one is the example google gives when I google “spoonerism”.)
You have hissed the mystery lectures.
You have [hissed] the [myst]ery lectures.
You have [myst] the [hissed]ery lectures.
You have missed the history lectures.
Bake the hall in the candle of her brain.
**ake the [h]all in the [c]andle of her [br]ain.
[Br]ake the **all in the [h]andle of her [c]ain.
Break the ball in the handle of her cane.
OK fair enough, I hadn’t spotted the fact that the 4 different sounds had been mixed up, I was looking at them as 2 pairs.
** In 1663, about 100-150 people were born, all sharing an odd characteristic. What is it and how did it come to be?**
kk
Is it a street address?
A P.O. Box?
**PO Box. **