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Motif

Short-sighted wish.

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

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Filed under Absurd wishes.

6 finer motifs beneath it
Short-sighted wish: Midas's touch. Everything to turn to gold Short-sighted wish: grain to grow without beards. Birds eat it up Short-sighted wish: all he pulls on will follow. He blows his nose and it pulls out long 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
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Three foolish wishes. Three wishes will be granted: used up foolishly Same wishes used wisely and foolishly. Given to two persons with opposite results 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 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 Absurdly modest wish. Granted any wish, the fool chooses a trifle Absurd wishes – miscellaneous
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