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J2070 Absurd wishes
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- Three foolish wishes. Three wishes will be granted: used up foolishly · J2071 entry
- Short-sighted wish · J2072 entry
- Same wishes used wisely and foolishly. Given to two persons with opposite results · J2073 entry
- Twice the wish to the enemy. (The covetous and the envious). A can have a wish, but B will get twice the wish. A wishes that he may lose an eye, so that B may be blind · J2074 entry
- The transferred wish. A husband, given three wishes, transfers one to his wife, who wastes it on a trifle; in his anger he wishes the article in her body and must use the third to get it out · J2075 entry
- Absurdly modest wish. Granted any wish, the fool chooses a trifle · J2076 entry
- Absurd wishes – miscellaneous · J2079 entry