Short-sighted wish: all he pulls on will follow. He blows his nose and it pulls out long — Mythoi

Motif

Short-sighted wish: all he pulls on will follow. He blows his nose and it pulls out long.

The wise and the foolish. · Fools (and other unwise persons). · Absurd short-sightedness. · Absurd wishes. · view the constellation · filed as J2072.3

Cited in the index

general *BP II 213.

Within the index

Filed under Short-sighted wish.

Filed beside it

Short-sighted wish: Midas's touch. Everything to turn to gold Short-sighted wish: grain to grow without beards. Birds eat it up 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 Short-sighted wish: camel wishes a long neck. Killed by jackals Old woman demands something that she would remember all her life: her nose cut off

Carried in tale types

The Three Wishes (previously The Wishes) · ATU 750A 4 recorded variants

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