The Ridiculous Wishes

The Ridiculous Wishes or The Three Ridiculous Wishes (French: Les Souhaits ridicules) is a French literary fairy tale by Charles Perrault published in 1697 in the volume titled Histoires ou contes du temps passé.

Jupiter (or alternatively, a tree spirit or fairy) 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 for the sausages to attach to her nose.

In some versions of this tale, black pudding is used instead of sausages, and in some versions, it is the woodcutter himself that gets the sausage stuck on his nose.