English Class 9 For what and how did St. George punish the old lady.
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He punished the lady by changing her into a woodpecker that built “as birds do” and gathered scanty food by boring in the “hard, dry wood” all day long, because she insulted him.
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This question is in reference to the poem A legend of the Northland written by Phoebe Cary.
The poem is based on folklore about how a hungry St. Peter punished a greedy old lady who would not even give him the tiniest of cakes that she baked.
Angered by her greediness, St. Peter cursed her to turn into a woodpecker that had to bore hard into the wood to get whatever little food it needed as he did not believe she deserved to live as a human, enjoying warmth and food.
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