This is a tale about a horrible stepmother who hates the little boy her husband had before they met. She kills the boy by slicing off his head with the lid of a chest, and then makes her own daughter believe that she has killed her brother. But the brother will take his revenge.
“My mother, she killed me,
My father, he ate me,
My sister Marlene,
Gathered all my bones,
Tied them in a silken scarf,
Laid them beneath the juniper tree,
Tweet, tweet, what a beautiful bird am I.”