“The Spirit in the Bottle” from The Brothers Grimm
A poor woodcutter sends his son to the high school to have a better lot in life, but the money runs out before the son can complete his studies. He returns home and embarks on his father’s living with a cheerful spirit. They don’t have money for a second axe, and he tells his father to borrow it from the neighbor. At noon, the son sets off deeper into the woods to look at birds’ nests, ridiculed by his father.
As he walked he ate his bread, peering among the green branches for a bird’s nest, and he happened upon a great, dangerous-looking oak. “Many a bird must’ve made its nest in that.” Then…
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