The Monkey's Paw

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   The Sergeant Major got the monkey's paw in India from a man who used his three wishes, with his last wish being for death.  

   "It had a spell put on it by an old fakir," said the sergeant-major, "a very holy man. He wanted to show that fate ruled people's lives, and that those who interfered with it did so to their sorrow. He put a spell on it so that three separate men could each have three wishes from it." (Jacobs)

   "The first man had his three wishes, yes," was the reply. "I don't know what the first two were, but the third was for death. That's how I got the paw." (Jacobs)

     

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   Posted by pmiranda2857 on Thursday July 3, 2008 at 6:53 PM