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 — Mythoi

Motif

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 wise and the foolish. · Fools (and other unwise persons). · Absurd short-sightedness. · Absurd wishes. · view the constellation · filed as J2074

Filed across the traditions

Italian Novella *Rotunda
India *Thompson-Balys.
general *Type 1331
general *BP II 219 n. 1
general Crane Vitry 212 No. 126
general Bédier Fabliaux 457
general Wienert FFC LVI 79 (ET 446), 132 (ST 387)
general Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 647
general *Reinhard JAFL XXXVI 383 n. 1
general Scala Celi 106b No. 589
general Krappe Bulletin Hispanique XXXIX 31. – Spanish Exempla: Keller

Within the index

Filed under Absurd wishes.

Filed beside it

Three foolish wishes. Three wishes will be granted: used up foolishly Short-sighted wish Same wishes used wisely and foolishly. Given to two persons with opposite results 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 Covetous and the Envious · ATU 1331 1 recorded variant

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