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Short-sighted wish: Midas's touch. Everything to turn to goldShort-sighted wish: grain to grow without beards. Birds eat it upShort-sighted wish: all he pulls on will follow. He blows his nose and it pulls out longA 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 againShort-sighted wish: camel wishes a long neck. Killed by jackalsOld woman demands something that she would remember all her life: her nose cut off
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Three foolish wishes. Three wishes will be granted: used up foolishlySame wishes used wisely and foolishly. Given to two persons with opposite resultsTwice 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 blindThe 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 outAbsurdly modest wish. Granted any wish, the fool chooses a trifleAbsurd wishes – miscellaneous
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