The Willful Child

Once upon a time there was a child who was willful and did not do what his mother wanted. For this reason God was displeased¹ with him and caused him to become ill, and no doctor could help him, and in a short time he lay on his deathbed（临终之时） .

He was lowered into a grave and covered with earth, but his little arm suddenly came forth² and reached up, and it didn't help when they put it back in and put fresh earth over it, for the little arm always came out again. So the mother herself had to go to the grave and beat the little arm with a switch, and as soon as she had done that, it withdrew, and the child finally came to rest beneath the earth.