Absurdly modest wish. Granted any wish, the fool chooses a trifle — Mythoi

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Absurdly modest wish. Granted any wish, the fool chooses a trifle.

The wise and the foolish. · Fools (and other unwise persons). · Absurd short-sightedness. · Absurd wishes. · view the constellation · filed as J2076

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general Penzer V 96.

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Absurdly modest wish: no lights on certain night except in her own house

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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 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 Absurd wishes – miscellaneous

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