The Wish Ring
Author
Martha
Holloway
Appeared in
Best-Loved Stories Told at the National Storytelling Festival
Story Summary
An old woman treated kindly by a farmer gives the farmer a wish-ring which contains one wish. Though the ring is switched by a thieving jeweler, the farmer and his wife prosper, always holding off making a wish until they really need it. They die, old and peaceable, and are buried with the ring still on the farmer's finger.