 In it, an old childless couple make themselves a clay child, who first eats all their food, then them, then a number of people, until he meets a goat who offers to jump right into his mouth, but instead uses the opportunity to ram the clay guy, shattering him and freeing everyone.The Czech folk tale Otesánek (and the 2000 movie with the same name) follows a similar plot.Joseph Jacobs published "Johnny-Cake" in his "English Fairy Tales" (1890), basing his tale on a version found in the "American Journal of Folk-Lore."