Now, this is one of the oddest stories of the Brothers Grimm because the "villain" wins and the story says "yeah, but she was quite a bad person." Many other stories encourage children to be good people, whereas this one says "just because you get away with doing something bad doesn't mean you're not still hateful" (or "odious," as the story puts it).

Still a good lesson, just...unorthodox this time around.

All words in this particular story are well-known, but there is the phrase "lump of tow." It took a bit of tracking and figuring, but it's a coarse and broken part of flax or hemp prepared for spinning. Yay, learning!

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