The priest got very angry with the old lady as he was hungry and faint due to his fasting, and the old lady was selfish and couldn’t part with a single cake. So the priest cursed her that she would make her own home like the birds do and get her own food by boring all day into the woods, as she didn’t deserve the human being form, the food, the shelter and the fire that keeps her warm. She quietly went inside her cottage and flew out from her chimney as a woodpecker.