Does anybody here understand the brothers Grimm?

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#1

I really like the brothers Grimm (dosn’t everybody?) - but this one here. I just don’t get it.

http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/grimm203.html

Can anybody offer suggestions as to what this means?
Thanks

Tyklfe

#2

It’s new to me. Maybe the “beautiful child” is Death?

#3

Thanks Morgyn,

That sounds reasonable, but who knows?

#4

Standard Jesus rural legend. Like the St Christopher story, where Jesus appears first as a child. The Christ Child avatar lives still–have you been told that, when you lie, it makes the Baby Jesus cry?