Sacrificing a Son to Gain Another

1. There was a widow who lived with her only son.
2. She longed for a second child.
3. Who could bring me another child?
4. The neighbours couldn’t give an answer to her.
5. An old woman offered help to fulfill her wish.
6. I can help you to pray for a son. But … you have to make a sacrifice to the gods.
7. What kind of sacrifice … Shall I make?
8. Kill your son and offer his blood as a sacrifice to the gods, and certainly you’ll get many other children.
9. She listened to the advice and tried to kill her son to make a sacrifice.
10. How stupid and ignorant you are! To kill your son that you have now! Are you sure that you’ll have another one whose birth is unknown?
    

Explanation:

So is the stupid man who in order to get uncertain happiness, plunges into the burning pit and does all sorts of wrong-doings in the hope of entering heaven after death.