Once, Saint Peter was fasting for a day and was very hungry that he felt he was about to faint.
I am famished, I have to find something to eat soon.
He saw a little woman baking some cakes and asked her to give a piece of it.
Yes, I will. Please come in.
I feel like I would faint from hunger. Lady, could you please give me a piece of cake?
The cake the woman first baked seemed too big for her to give away, then, she tried to bake a smaller one but it seemed as big.
She is taking too much time. Why can't she give a piece from those cakes?
These cakes seem to be of the same size. They both are way too large to give away. I will prepare another one for you.
She then baked a thin wafer but still, decided to keep all those cakes in a shelf and prepare another cake.
Enough now! I have been waiting for too long for you to give me just a piece of cake. You are just being selfish!
My cakes seem too small when I eat them myself, but they still seem too large to give away. I will put these in the shelf and just prepare another c-
The saint grew angry as he was hungry and cursed the woman due to her selfish nature.
You are too selfish to dwell in a human form, to have both food and shelter and fire to keep you warm. Now you shall build as birds do and shall get your scanty food by boring in the hard, dry wood!
Oh, no! Please... Please forgive me!
Saint Peter cursed her to change into a bird. She went through the chimney and found herself as a woodpecker.