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  2. The milkmaid and her pail - Wikipedia

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    The child misbehaves, his wife takes no heed, so he kicks her and in doing so upsets the pot that was to make his fortune. Other variants include Bidpai's "The Poorman and the Flask of Oil", [3] "The Barber's Tale of his Fifth Brother" from The 1001 Nights [4] and the Jewish story of "The Dervish and the Honey Jar". [5]

  3. Monty Hall problem - Wikipedia

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    The game host then opens one of the other doors, say 3, to reveal a goat and offers to let the player switch from door 1 to door 2. The Monty Hall problem is a brain teaser , in the form of a probability puzzle, based nominally on the American television game show Let's Make a Deal and named after its original host, Monty Hall .

  4. Wolf, goat and cabbage problem - Wikipedia

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    The dilemma is solved by taking the wolf (or the cabbage) over and bringing the goat back. Now he can take the cabbage (or the wolf) over, and finally return to fetch the goat. An animation of the solution. His actions in the solution are summarized in the following steps: Take the goat over; Return empty-handed; Take the wolf or cabbage over

  5. Parables of Jesus - Wikipedia

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    [17] [c] Those unique to Thomas include the Parable of the Assassin and the Parable of the Empty Jar. The noncanonical Apocryphon of James also contains three unique parables attributed to Jesus. [18] They are known as "The Parable of the Ear of Grain", "The Parable of the Grain of Wheat", and "The Parable of the Date-Palm Shoot". [19]

  6. Calila e Dimna - Wikipedia

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    The pious man would eat his daily needs and store the rest in a jar which he hung in the corner of his house. One day, when the jar became full the pious man lay down thinking about his future. He planned to sell the jar for a dinar (gold coin) and then use the dinar to buy some goats, which would reproduce and multiply into a herd of goats.

  7. Parable of the empty jar - Wikipedia

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    The Parable of the Empty Jar (also known as the Parable of the Woman with a Jar), is found in the non-canonical Gospel of Thomas. It does not appear in any of the Canonical gospels of the New Testament. The parable is attributed to Jesus and reads: The kingdom of the father is like a certain woman who was carrying a jar full of meal.

  8. Parable - Wikipedia

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    Examples of Jesus' parables include the Good Samaritan and the Prodigal Son. Mashalim from the Old Testament include the parable of the ewe-lamb (told by Nathan in 2 Samuel 12:1-9 [8]) and the parable of the woman of Tekoah (in 2 Samuel 14:1-13 [9]). Parables also appear in Islam. In Sufi tradition, parables are used for imparting lessons and ...

  9. Cookie Jar (short story) - Wikipedia

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    In March 1946, he retrieves the still-full cookie jar from the attic of his father's home and finally empties it. When Rhett looks at the bottom of the empty jar, he sees an aerial view of what he recognizes as Lalanka. Rhett sees the burned remains of the Long Forest, a thick mist of forza, and a pedlar who is attacked by two Gobbits.