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Tale Summary

Once there was a poor girl who lived with her mother, and they had hardly enough to eat. After they completely ran out of food, the girl went searching in the woods for nuts and berries, but came across an old woman. She handed the girl a kettle and told her that if she said the words “Cook, little kettle, cook,” it would make sweet porridge for her and her mother, and when they were satisfied with the amount she should say “stop, little kettle, stop”. The two were never hungry from then on, but one day while her daughter was away for a few hours, the mother asked for the kettle to begin cooking, but could not remember the words to stop it. The kettle cooked and cooked and cooked and flooded the cottage before pouring out of the windows and into the village. People ran from their homes to escape the flood of porridge, which began to flood the countryside. The girl returned home and cried “stop, little kettle, stop!” and it obeyed. The village people had to eat their way through the porridge to return home.

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