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The Old Witch by The Brothers Grimm 
There was once a little girl who was very willful and who never obeyed when her elders spoke to her - so how could she be happy?
One
day she said to her parents, "I have heard so much of the old witch
that I will go and see her. People say she is a wonderful old woman,
and has many marvelous things in her house, and I am very curious to
see them."'
But
her parents forbade her going, saying, "The witch is a wicked old
woman, who performs many godless deeds - and if you go near her, you
are no longer a child of ours."
The
girl, however, would not turn back at her parents' command, but went to
the witch's house. When she arrived there the old woman asked her:
"Why are you so pale?"
"Ah," she replied, trembling all over, "I have frightened myself so with what I have just seen."
"And what did you see?" inquired the old witch.
"I saw a black man on your steps."
"That was a collier," replied she.
"Then I saw a gray man."
"That was a sportsman," said the old woman.
"After him I saw a blood-red man."
"That was a butcher," replied the old woman.
"But,
oh, I was most terrified," continued the girl, "when I peeped through
your window, and saw not you, but a creature with a fiery head."
"Then
you have seen the witch in her proper dress," said the old woman. "For
you I have long waited, and now you shall give me light."
So
saying the witch changed the little girl into a block of wood, and then
threw it on the fire. When it was fully alight, she sat down on the
hearth and warmed herself, saying:
"How good I feel! The fire has not burned like this for a long time!"
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