μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Woman disdainfully throws away pills; punished with sores on body, must use the pills to restore herself.

The wise and the foolish. · Fools (and other unwise persons). · Absurd short-sightedness. · Absurd wishes. · view the constellation · filed as J2075.3

Filed across the traditions
  • India Thompson-Balys.
Within the index

Filed under 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.

Filed beside it
Transferred wish wisely used as well as unwisely. (J2075 contrasted with a married couple in which the wish is wisely used by the wife.) Two transferred wishes used unwisely: redeemed by wise use of third. Wife uses two transferred wishes selfishly. Husband kills wife and uses remaining wish to his advantage Wife granted wish for beauty, elopes with prince. Husband wishes her into a pig; son must use third wish to restore her

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