The Girl Who Trod the Loaf: The Downfall of Pride and Vanity
Long ago, there lived a beautiful but terrible, cruel and arrogant little girl, Inger. To tame her behavior, her mother sent her to work for a wealthy family. They were kind to her, but this made her more arrogant. Inger went home for a visit, but she turned back before reaching her family, embarrassed by their poverty.
The second time her employers sent her home for a visit, they gave her some bread to bring to her family. Wearing a pretty dress and new shoes, she trod home, but mud blocked her path. She threw the bread down to step on it so her shoes would stay clean. The bread sank down, down, down, with Inger on it, into the underworld brewery of the Marsh Woman. The Marsh Woman’s brewery lay in a squalid, cold, smelly, terrible place crawling with toads and snakes. Inger became stuck there.
