The Willful Child
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The Wilful Child (German: Das eigensinnige Kind) is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm as tale number 117.[1]
It is Aarne-Thompson type 779, divine rewards and punishments.[2] Another tale of this type is The Star Money.
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[edit] Synopsis
A child was so disobedient that God made her ill, and she died. Her arm stuck out of her grave until her mother beat it with a rod.
[edit] Commentary
In their first edition, the girl merely became ill; that God made her ill was added in later ones.
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ Jacob and Wilheim Grimm, Household Tales, The Wilful Child
- ^ D.L. Ashliman, "The Grimm Brothers' Children's and Household Tales (Grimms' Fairy Tales)"
