The Magic Porridge Pot

 

The Magic Porridge Pot is a children's fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm. In German it's called "Der süße Brei", which means "Sweet Porridge". 

The tale is about a single mother living with her daughter in poverty, and one day the daughter met a kind elderly woman who wanted to offer help. She gave her a pot and told her it made porridge from nowhere, but would continue cooking until it was told to stop. The exact words to tell the pot are "cook, little pot, cook" and then "stop, little pot."

This simple pot was able to make nice tasty porridge and then no more appeared once it was told to stop. The girl and her mother were not about to die of hunger and so the girl was often telling the porridge to make more. Then the girl went out and her mother was at home, feeling like eating porridge. She told the pot to make some porridge and she forgot the exact words to tell it to stop. Porridge kept appearing, and then it covered the whole kitchen and spread outside in the street. Soon, the porridge covered the houses. Nobody knew how to properly stop it. 

The little girl returned home and found the entire village covered in porridge. She said "Stop, little pot!" and it worked. The entire villagers had to eat all of the porridge and never went hungry.

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