In 1902, British novelist W.W. Jacobs published a short story describing the grim experiences of a working-class family that acquires a charmed relic, a mummified monkey’s paw, with the power to grant whatever its owner wants. The wishes the mother and father make are all fulfilled, but at a price neither anticipated.
If it were one of Aesop’s fables, the moral might have been, “Be careful what you wish for.”
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