“There was once a little girl who was obstinate and mquisitive, and when her parents told her to do anything, she did not obey them, so how could she fare well ? One day she said to her parents, " I have heard so much of Frau Trude, I will go to her some day. People say that everything about her does look so strange, and that there are such odd things in her house, that I have become quite curious !”

— Grimm's Household Tales: With the Author's Notes, Tale 43 · served from our shelf uncorrected OCR — being verified against the scan