«The wilful child» in German
Das eigensinnige Kind
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| ✒ Author | Brothers Grimm |
| 📖 Pages | 1 |
| ⏰ Reading time | 10 minutes |
| 💡 Originally published | 1815 |
| 🌏 Original language | German |
| 📌 Types | Fairy tale , Fairy tale |
| 📌 Genres | Psychological, Parable, Psychological |
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Das eigensinnige Kind: read the book in the original with parallel translation into English
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Es war einmal ein Kind eigensinnig und tat nicht, was seine Mutter haben wollte. Darum hatte der liebe Gott kein Wohlgefallen an ihm und ließ es krank werden, und kein Arzt konnte ihm helfen, und in kurzem lag es auf dem Totenbettchen. Als es nun ins Grab versenkt und die Erde über es hingedeckt war, so kam auf einmal sein Ärmchen wieder hervor und reichte in die Höhe, und wenn sie es hineinlegten und frische Erde darüber taten, so half das nicht, und das Ärmchen kam immer wieder heraus. Da mußte die Mutter selbst zum Grabe gehen und mit der Rute aufs Ärmchen schlagen, und wie sie das getan hatte, zog es sich hinein, und das Kind hatte nun erst Ruhe unter der Erde.
Once upon a time there was a child who was willful, and would not dowh at her mother wished. For this reason God had no pleasure in her, and let her become ill, and no doctor could do her any good, and in a short time she lay on her death-bed. When she had been lowered into her grave, and the earth was spread over her, all at once her arm came out again, and stretched upwards, and when they had put it in and spread fresh earth over it, it was all to no purpose, for the arm always came out again. Then the mother herself was obliged to go to the grave, and strike the arm with a rod, and when she had done that, it was drawn in, and then at last the child had rest beneath the ground.
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