Little Otik

A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of seeing Jan Svankmajer's film "Little Otik."
It is based upon a folk tale collected by KJ Erben.
The story expresses the fear that a small child will eat more than a poor couple can provide for them.
In the story, a wooden substitute for a child eats the parents, and many others----until he meets a grandmother who knows what to do.

In the USA, if there were to be a modern version of such a folktale, it would have to be about
the automobile----which destroys lives and cities.....

Would that the USA version would end in a way analogous to Erben's original, with the mother and father
saying that never again would they wish for an automobile....

If only.....

gmooh