Same wishes used wisely and foolishly. Given to two persons with opposite results — Mythoi

Motif

Same wishes used wisely and foolishly. Given to two persons with opposite results.

The wise and the foolish. · Fools (and other unwise persons). · Absurd short-sightedness. · Absurd wishes. · view the constellation · filed as J2073

Filed across the traditions

India Thompson-Balys.

Within the index

Filed under Absurd wishes.

1 finer motif beneath it

Wise and foolish wish: keep doing all day what you begin. One begins pulling linen out of a box; other in anger begins throwing water on the pig and must do so all day

Filed beside it

Three foolish wishes. Three wishes will be granted: used up foolishly Short-sighted wish 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

Carried in tale types

The Three Wishes (previously The Wishes) · ATU 750A 2 recorded variants
The Lost Genitalia · ATU 750K* 1 recorded variant

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