The clairvoyant child

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In one village family there were many children. One of the children was very talkative. One day this child said:

"Tomorrow grandfather will die."

"What do you mean he'll die?" His parents shouted at him and gave him a sound beating. He began to cry and then repeated:

"Tomorrow grandfather will die. You'll see, he'll die. I saw him dead."

The next day the old man suddenly dies, although he had been healthy. The family members were astonished; they didn't know what to say. They buried the old man.

After a time, a year, or two, the child said:

"Grandmother will die this evening."

Again, they beat the child but he wouldn't retract it.

"Don't beat me! Grandmother will die this evening. You'll see, she'll die."

Towards evening, the grandmother became ill, and she died, just as the child had said. The family mourned loudly, but there was nothing to be done about it, and the following day they buried the woman next to the old man. Now everyone believed that the child had second sight, and that he really could see death when it came.

Several years passed. One day the child again announced, and wept aloud:

"Oh, alas, father, you will die tomorrow."

Now no one beat the child. They wept and began to prepare for the following day. When it dawned in the house, everything was ready for the corpse. The father said farewell to his wife, his children, and relatives, and then awaited death. Well and good, but all of a sudden they heard a wailing from the neighbors. The neighbor had died!

That's how the clairvoyant child brought everything out into the open.