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==Clay Boy variation==
A Yiddish and [[Slavic folklore|Slavic folktale]] is the Clay Boy, which combines elements of the golem and ''[[The Gingerbread Man]]'', in which a lonely couple makes a child out of clay, with disastrous or comical consequences.<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Cronan|first=Mary W. |title=Lutoschenka|magazine=The Story Teller's Magazine |year=1917|volume=5|issue=1|pages=7–9}}</ref>

In one common Russian version, an older couple, whose children have left home, make a boy out of clay and dry him by their hearth. The Clay Boy ({{langx|ru|Гли́няный па́рень}}, {{transliteration|ru|Glínyanyĭ párenʹ}}) comes to life; at first, the couple is delighted and treats him like a real child, but the Clay Boy does not stop growing and eats all their food, then all their livestock, and then the Clay Boy eats his parents. The Clay Boy rampages through the village until he is smashed by a quick-thinking goat.<ref>{{cite book|last=Ginsburg|first=Mirra|author-link=Mirra Ginsburg |title=Clay Boy|year=1997|publisher=Greenwillow |location=New York|isbn=9780688144098 |url=https://archive.org/details/clayboy00gins}}</ref>