When the old lady did not part with the smallest cake she made, the priest turned angry as he was very hungry and faint due to fasting and travelling round the earth. He cursed the old lady for her extremely selfish nature that she would make her own home and would get her own food by boring and boring all day into the woods as birds do, because she didn’t deserve the human form, the food and the shelter. She went back inside without speaking a word, and flew as a woodpecker out from her chimney.