The constellation
J2072 Short-sighted wish
A constellation is one motif’s neighborhood in the record — the story-shapes filed around it, the tale types that carry it, and the texts where it is witnessed, every line a receipted link. Click a motif to travel. Click a text to read it. The entry · wander
● motif
● tale type
● on the shelf
● attested
The same sky, in words
filed under
- Absurd wishes · J2070 entry
beneath it
- Short-sighted wish: Midas's touch. Everything to turn to gold · J2072.1 entry
- Short-sighted wish: grain to grow without beards. Birds eat it up · J2072.2 entry
- Short-sighted wish: all he pulls on will follow. He blows his nose and it pulls out long · J2072.3 entry
- A man without a stomach. The man complains that he is a mere slave of his stomach. His wish is granted and the stomach taken away from him. He discovers soon that life has become very uninteresting to him, and recovers his stomach again · J2072.4 entry
- Short-sighted wish: camel wishes a long neck. Killed by jackals · J2072.5 entry
- Old woman demands something that she would remember all her life: her nose cut off · J2072.6 entry
carried in tale type
- Wishing the Cat to Be a Prince · ATU 750K**