The Willful Child



Stubborn child is punished by God with death. Her arm keeps coming out of the ground - until her mother gives her peace under the ground.

Once upon a time there was a child who was stubborn and didn't do what his mother wanted. That is why the good Lord was not pleased with him and let him become ill, and no doctor could help him, and before long he was lying on his deathbed. When she was buried in the grave and earth was covered over her, all at once her little arm came out again and reached up, and if they put her in and put fresh earth over it, that didn't help, and the little arm kept coming out again . So the mother herself had to go to the grave and hit the little arm with the rod, and when she did that, it pulled itself in, and the child was only now able to rest underground.