The Headstrong Child

A gender-flipped modern retelling of The Wilful Child from Grimm’s Fairy Tales

Once upon a time there was a child who was headstrong, and would not listen to his dad. For this reason, he had bad karma and got very sick. No doctor could help him, and he soon died. When they put him in his coffin, his arm stuck out and knocked open the coffin lid. Every time they tucked his arm back in and closed the coffin lid, the arm always came out again. His dad had to go to the coffin, and beat the arm back down with a stick. Once he had done that, the arm finally stayed put and at last the child could rest in peace.