Which 1902 short story by W. W. Jacobs is based on the premise of three wishes coming true but with an enormous price for interfering with fate?
"W. W. Jacobs William Wymark Jacobs (1863–1943) was an English author of short stories and novels. Although much of his work was humorous, he is most famous for a 1902 horror story, ""The Monkey's Paw"". Jacobs was born on 8 September 1863 in Wapping, London; his father was a wharf manager on the South Devon wharf at Lower East Smithfield. He was educated at a private school in London and later at Birkbeck College (then called Birkbeck Literary and Scientific Institution, now part of the University of London). In 1879, Jacobs began work as a clerk in the civil service,"
"The Ridiculous Wishes The Ridiculous Wishes or The Three Ridiculous Wishes () is a French literary fairy tale by Charles Perrault published in 1697 in the volume titled ""Histoires ou contes du temps passé"". It is Aarne-Thompson type 750A. A woodcutter complained of his poor lot. Jupiter (or, alternatively, a tree spirit) granted him three wishes. The woodcutter went home, and his wife persuaded him to put off the wishing until the next day, after he had thought, but while sitting by the fire, he wished for sausages. His wife taxed him for his folly, and angry, he wished the"
"paw wishes for £200, only to learn that his son has been killed in a terrible work accident, for which the employer makes a goodwill payment of £200. Later, the mother asks that the dead son be wished back to life. Upon hearing strange sounds and a knock at the door, the father realizes that the thing outside would be a horribly mutilated body, and wishes it away. Three wishes joke The three wishes joke (or genie joke) is a joke format in which a character is given three wishes by a supernatural being, and fails to make the best"
"sausages on her nose. Finally, they agreed to use the last wish to take the sausages off her nose, leaving them no better off than before. In some different types of versions of this tale, black pudding is used instead of sausages. The Ridiculous Wishes The Ridiculous Wishes or The Three Ridiculous Wishes () is a French literary fairy tale by Charles Perrault published in 1697 in the volume titled ""Histoires ou contes du temps passé"". It is Aarne-Thompson type 750A. A woodcutter complained of his poor lot. Jupiter (or, alternatively, a tree spirit) granted him three wishes. The woodcutter"
"Three wishes joke The three wishes joke (or genie joke) is a joke format in which a character is given three wishes by a supernatural being, and fails to make the best use of them. Common scenarios include releasing a genie from a lamp, catching and agreeing to release a mermaid or magical fish; or crossing paths with the devil. The first two wishes go as expected, with the third wish being misinterpreted, or granted in an unexpected fashion that doesn't reflect the intent of the wish. Alternatively, the wishes are split between three people, with the last person's wish"
"three wishes to the person who freed him, yet nobody did so. After four hundred years of imprisonment, the jinni became enraged and swore to grant the person who freed him a choice of deaths. The fisherman pleaded for his life, but the jinni would not concede. The fisherman decided to trick the jinni. He asked the jinni how he managed to fit into the bottle. The jinni, eager to show off, shrank and placed himself back into the bottle to demonstrate his abilities. The fisherman quickly put the cap back on and threatened to throw it back to the"
"friend who served with the British Army in India, introduces them to a mummified monkey's paw. An old fakir placed a spell on the paw, so that it would grant three wishes. The wishes are granted but always with hellish consequences as punishment for tampering with fate. Morris, having had a horrific experience using the paw, throws the monkey's paw into the fire but Mr. White retrieves it. Before leaving, Morris warns Mr. White that if he does use the paw, then it will be on his own head. At Herbert's suggestion, Mr. White flippantly wishes for £200, which will"
"A Tragedy of Two Ambitions ""A Tragedy of Two Ambitions"" is a short story by Thomas Hardy and was published in his collection ""Life's Little Ironies"" in 1894. In this story, Hardy tells the story of two brothers who are so ambitious to get out of their social environment that they ignore moral values and willingly accept their father's death and hide all that from their sister. The story is divided in five chapters and follows the dramatic structure of classical drama. The story deals with the two brothers Joshua and Cornelius Halborough and their determination to better their lot"
"her the truth. Cornelius probably won't tell her but if he does commit suicide it is to be hoped he can disguise it as an accident. Her relationship with Joshua is unlikely to be good in the future as he becomes more and more reclusive and intimidating - this will be a source of sorrow to her as she will strive to understand the reason for this and not be able to A Tragedy of Two Ambitions ""A Tragedy of Two Ambitions"" is a short story by Thomas Hardy and was published in his collection ""Life's Little Ironies"" in 1894."
"respect of his family. Yaozong meets a mysterious old woman who sells tissue paper. She wants to give him 3 wishes for him to fulfil what his heart desires. He does not believe her. Nevertheless, she leaves him with 3 coins for his wishes. Enlai wants to force Yaozong to resign. He speaks behind his back and makes things difficult for him. Yaozong does not want to lose this job and be separated from his precious horses. He thought of the old woman and the 3 wishes. Although still skeptical, he decided to make a wish. A miracle happens. Yaozong"
"in the Wood"", ""The Enchanted Wreath"", ""The Old Witch"" and ""The Two Caskets"". Literary variants include ""The Three Fairies"" and ""Aurore and Aimée"". The story has been translated into English many times, by A. B. Mitford (1871), William Elliot Griffis (1880), David Thomson (as volume 2 of Hasegawa Takejirō's ""Japanese Fairy Tale Series"", 1885), Yei Theodora Ozaki (1903), Teresa Peirce Williston (1904), and many others. Shita-kiri Suzume , translated literally into ""Tongue-Cut Sparrow"", is a traditional Japanese fable telling of a kind old man, his avaricious wife and an injured sparrow. The story explores the effects of greed, friendship and"
"Fate (short story) ""Fate"" is a short story by British comic writer P. G. Wodehouse. The story was published in both the UK in ""The Strand Magazine"" and in the US in ""Cosmopolitan"" in May 1931. It was titled ""Compromised"" in ""Cosmopolitan"". It was included in the 1936 collection ""Young Men in Spats"". The story is the first in the main Drones Club canon, and stars Freddie Widgeon, who would become one of the two most prominent characters in the Drones Club series, the other being Bingo Little. In ""Fate"", Freddie tries to be helpful by carrying a suitcase for"
"in the ""Strand"". James Montgomery Flagg provided illustrations for the story in ""Cosmopolitan"". ""Fate"" was included in the 1982 collection ""Tales from the Drones Club"". Fate (short story) ""Fate"" is a short story by British comic writer P. G. Wodehouse. The story was published in both the UK in ""The Strand Magazine"" and in the US in ""Cosmopolitan"" in May 1931. It was titled ""Compromised"" in ""Cosmopolitan"". It was included in the 1936 collection ""Young Men in Spats"". The story is the first in the main Drones Club canon, and stars Freddie Widgeon, who would become one of the two"
"tells her all about the 3 wishes and the mysterious old woman. To his surprise, Shanmei tells him that she had arranged all these to give him confidence. She bribed the old woman to lie to Yaozong. She knew she had this illness all along but did not want him to worry. She thought of this plan, hoping that Yaozong and the family can continue living comfortably after she passes on. Yaozong is devastated to learn that his 3 wishes were fake. Nevertheless, he uses the third wish coin to wish that Shanmei will be cured. Miraculously, his wish came"
"second dream shows a group of slaves on a ship where the youngest slave has his ears and nostrils filled with wax and is sent underwater to find pearls for the young King's scepter but dies after finding the best pearl. The third dream is the most elaborate and deals with the source of his new crown's rubies. In it, men excavate a dry riverbed in a tropical jungle, while overlooking them, the god Death tries to bargain with the goddess Avarice for a single grain of her corn. Each time Avarice refuses, Death summons Ague, Fever and Plague to"
"the caveat that the man's wife's lover gets double whatever the man gets. After first wishing for a house and a car, the man wishes to be beaten ""half to death"" — which Marge doesn't understand. A very early version of the joke is found in an 1875 book of Scottish anecdotes. There, a Scottish highlander is asked what his three wishes would be. He first wishes for a lake full of whisky. His second wish is for a similar quantity of good food. When asked for his third wish, after a moment of indecision, he asks for a ""second"""
"of its series of Raffles adaptations. The Fate of Faustina ""The Fate of Faustina"" is a short story by E. W. Hornung, and features the gentleman thief A. J. Raffles, and his companion and biographer, Bunny Manders. The story was first published in ""Scribner's Magazine"" in March 1901. The story was also included as the third story in the collection ""The Black Mask"", published by Grant Richards in London, and Charles Scribner's Sons in New York, both in 1901. The noise of some Neapolitan organ-grinders outside their flat reminds Raffles of his time spent in Italy. Raffles finally tells Bunny"
"to her and so much to his electronic exploits, such as defacing the www.microsoft.com web site. Attempting to mend his relationship with his girlfriend, he buys an ancient jar from an Internet-auction and finds a genie residing in it. Per the fairy-tale tradition, he is offered three wishes. First, the genie, named Hottabych by Gena, prints a huge number of US$100 banknotes. Unfortunately Hottabych is not familiar with modern paper, and the banknotes are printed on Egyptian papyrus. This later sets off a chain of events leading back to Gena. Unbeknownst to him, the local mafia is aware of Gena's"
"brought to Earth by the Devil and first purchased by Prester John for millions; it was owned by Napoleon and Captain James Cook and accounted for their great successes. By the time of the story the price has diminished to fifty dollars. Keawe buys the bottle and instantly tests it by wishing his money to be refunded, and by trying to sell it for more than he paid and abandoning it, to test if the story is true. When these all work as described, he realizes the bottle does indeed have unholy power. He wishes for his heart's desire: a"
"tries too hard to have one over on Wes Craven and Kevin Williamson."" On Rotten Tomatoes, ""Wishcraft"" currently holds 27% of audience score. Wishcraft Wishcraft is a 2002 slasher film about a teenager who receives a talisman that gives him three wishes. It stars Michael Weston and Alexandra Holden. A high school student named Brett Bumpers (Weston) receives a mysterious package one day. It contains a bull penis totem with a note explaining that it will grant him three wishes. His first wish is for Samantha (Alexandra Holden) to go with him to a spring dance. The next day, Samantha"
"the instructions of her mother, will ask for John's head. Everything goes as planned. John has been repeatedly insulting the royals, so the king does not think long before granting Salomé's wish. The crowd gathered for the party waits anxiously while the executioner, Mannaeus, kills John. The story ends with some of John's disciples awaiting the Messiah. Three Tales (Flaubert) Three Tales (""Trois Contes"") is a work by Gustave Flaubert that was originally published in French in 1877. It consists of the short stories ""A Simple Heart"", ""Saint Julian the Hospitalier,"" and ""Hérodias"". ""Dance of Death"" is another story sometimes"
"The Wishing Game The Wishing Game is a psychological suspense novel by British author Patrick Redmond. It was his debut novel and was published in 1999. The novel is set in a boarding school for boys in 1950s Norfolk, England. It deals with bullying, secrets, supernatural phenomena, and homosexuality. It was published in the US as Something Dangerous. Jonathan Palmer is a shy teenager at a traditional British boys boarding school in the 1950s. He has three friends: bookworm Nicholas and twins, Stephen and Michael. Unfortunately, his friends live in a separate dormitory, leaving Jonathan exposed to regular bullying at"
"the fortune his father left him and met the devil while begging. The time limit is three years, three months, and three days, and in that time, he buys a house and his fame spreads; the king asks him to lend him money, and that is how the promise to marry is brought about. The sisters, though they die, are not explicitly taken by the devil. ""The Devil's Breeches"" is close to ""Don Giovanni de la Fortuna"", but while the hero also squanders his money, he attempts to support himself by working as a servant, an attempt that fails because"
"on the ""Three Miseries of Barbary"", which dates from 1606. He then collaborated in 1607 with William Rowley and John Day in ""The Travels of the Three English Brothers"", a dramatisation of the real-life adventures of the Sherley brothers. In the same year Wilkins wrote ""The Miseries of Enforced Marriage"". This play is based on the story of Walter Calverley, whose identity is thinly disguised under the name of ""Scarborough."" This man had killed his two children and had attempted to murder his wife. The play originally had a tragic ending, but as played in 1607, ended in comedy and"
"with Subaru's cold attitude, remembers a mistakenly overheard conversation of some girls in which they're talking about a God named ""Ura no Kamisama"" who fulfill your wish if you cast a spell and say a wish, in exchange of something. He muttered the spell and wishes that his room will connect to Subaru's and his wish magically comes true. He later found that Subaru actually wished the same thing as him, and ""Self-control"" of a person is the price at which the wish comes true. But Subaru wished earlier them him so only she loses her self-control for one hour"
"Orvar-Odd. Many fairy tales, such as ""The Devil With the Three Golden Hairs"", ""The Fish and the Ring"", ""The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars"", or ""The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate"", revolve about a prophecy that a poor boy will marry a rich girl (or, less frequently, a poor girl a rich boy). This is story type 930 in the Aarne–Thompson classification scheme. The girl's father's efforts to prevent it are the reason why the boy ends up marrying her. Another fairy tale occurs with older children. In ""The Language of the Birds"", a father forces his son"
"Wonders, where he is instructed to fetch only the lamp. Distracted by the treasures, Aladdin becomes trapped within the cave until he rubs the lamp and releases the all-powerful Genie (""Friend Like Me""), who helps him escape. Granting the first of Aladdin's three wishes, Genie transforms him into Prince Ali Ababwa, which Aladdin hopes will help him to woo Jasmine. Back at the palace, Jafar, thinking that Aladdin is still trapped in the cave, informs a despondent Jasmine that the boy's sentence has already been carried out. Just then, Aladdin and his friends make a grand entrance as Prince Ali"
"to trade three wishes per person for the chalk, so Sofus asks for a violin, a wallet that always has money, and candy that makes one grow grass instead of hair; Jon wishes for Sofus to be waterproof and for candy that works as an antidote to Sofus's, saving the third wish for later. Their wishes are granted and they agree to meet again. They enter a kingdom and Sofus decides to go to the castle. He charms the king, queen, and princess with his violin playing and claims to be rich, showing them his wallet as proof. The princess"
"The Wish (novel) The Wish is a 2000 children's novel by Gail Carson Levine, the Newbery Honor winning author of Ella Enchanted. The novel tells the story of Wilma, who wishes to be the most popular girl at her school, Claverford, forgetting that she will graduate in three weeks and move to a new school. High schooler Wilma Sturtz is alone. Her childhood friends have moved away, and her efforts to make new ones have failed. Wilma's fortunes change when she offers an old lady her seat on the subway. The woman offers to grant Wilma one wish, exactly as"
"in the room. Nicholas ends up taking the blame for all of it, despite being innocent. Many decades later, an adult Nicholas tells his story to a journalist. However, he tells the journalist that if he publishes the story, Nicholas will ensure that his life is ruined. Nicholas claims that, like Richard and Jonathan, he also acquired dark powers during their ""wishing game"" with the ouija board. The journalist deliberates for a few moments before throwing the tape recordings of Nicholas's story into the fire. The Wishing Game The Wishing Game is a psychological suspense novel by British author Patrick"
"Wonders, where he meets a sentient magic carpet and is commanded to only get a magic lamp. He gets it, but Abu's grabbing of a giant gem causes the cave to collapse. Aladdin, Abu, and the carpet are left in the cave. Abu delivers the lamp to Aladdin, and when he rubs it, a giant blue Genie appears, telling Aladdin he will fulfill three wishes. After leaving the collapsed cave with the Genie's help, he decides to become a prince in order to win Jasmine's heart. In the first direct-to-video sequel, ""The Return of Jafar"" (1994), Jasmine begins to question"
"can wish on many things for example: wishing wells, dandelions when one blows the seeds or light them on fire, stars and much more. When one wishes in a well he or she throws money in, in the hope his or her wish comes true, the money normally goes to a charity. A template for fictional wishes could be ""The Book of One Thousand and One Nights"", specifically the tale of Aladdin, although in the tale of Aladdin the actual wishes were only part of the tale. Also, Aladdin's demands, while outrageous, were mainly variations on wealth (which is still"
"deadline ends, Punky and her friends have lost because one of her friends, Allen, forgot to spend the 98 cents he got as change when he bought chocolate. Fortunately, one of the dollars was spent on a lottery ticket, and the heroes win $100,000, saving the orphanage. Brewster's Millions Brewster's Millions is a novel written by George Barr McCutcheon in 1902, originally under the pseudonym of Richard Greaves. It was adapted into a play in 1906, which opened at the New Amsterdam Theatre on Broadway, and the novel or play has been adapted into films twelve times, four of which"