Otesanek 2000 When a childless couple learn that they cannot have children, it causes great distress To ease his wifes pain, the man finds a stump in the backyard and chops it and varnishes it into the shape of a child However the woman takes the root as her baby and starts to pretend that it is real When the root takes life they seem to have gained a child but its appetite is much greater than that of a normal child