The Fisherman and His Wife
The fisherman's recurring summons: 'Flounder, flounder in the sea, come, I pray thee, here to me, for my wife, good Ilsabil, wills not as I'd have her will.'
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From Grimms' Fairy Tales by Brothers Grimm
A fisherman's wife, granted wishes by an enchanted flounder, escalates her demands from cottage to castle to king to pope to God, and loses everything.
The Fisherman and His Wife
The escalating wishes ending with the demand to be like God, and the sea churning black — a canonical parable of unchecked greed.
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