147. Curiosity

1. Anselmo so assured of wife’s fidelity, asks friend to try to corrupt her; friend is successful. [Span. Lit.: Don Quixote ]
2. Cupid and Psyche her inquisitiveness almost drives him away forever. [Gk. Myth.: Espy, 27]
3. Curious George inquisitive, mischievous monkey. [Children’s Lit.: Curious George ]
4. Fatima Bluebeard’s 7th and last wife; her inquisitiveness uncovers his murders. [Fr. Fairy Tale: Harvey, 97–98]
5. Faustus, Doctor makes demonic compact to sate thirst for knowledge. [Br. Lit.: Doctor Faustus ]
6. Harker, Jonathan uncovers vampiric and lycanthropic activities at Castle Dracula. [Br. Lit.: Dracula ]
7. Lot’s wife ignores God’s command; turns to salt upon looking back. [O.T.: Genesis 19:26]
8. Lucius his insatiable curiosity involves him in magic and his accidental transformation into an ass. [Rom. Lit.: The Golden Ass ]
9. Nosy Parker after a meddlesome Elizabethan Archbishop of Canterbury. [Br. Hist.: Espy, 169]
10. Odysseus’ companions to determine its contents, they open the bag Aeolus had given Odysseus, thus releasing winds that blow the ship off course. [Gk. Lit.: Odyssey ].
11. Pandora inquisitively opens box of plagues given by Zeus. [Gk. Myth.: Zimmerman, 191]
12. Pry, Paul overly inquisitive journalist. [Br. Lit.: Paul Pry ; Espy, 135]
13. sycamore symbolizes inquisitiveness. [Flower Symbolism: Flora Symbolica, 177]
14. Vathek journeys to Istakhar where world’s secrets are revealed. [Br. Lit.: Vathek ]

curiosity curiosity killed the cat often used as a warning against interference in what is not your business; the saying is recorded from the early 20th century.
'satiable curiosity unquenchable desire for information; from Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories (1900), ‘There was one Elephant—an Elephant's Child—who was full of 'satiable curtiosity, and that means he asked ever so many questions.’

cu·ri·os·i·ty / ˌkyoŏrēˈäsitē/ • n. (pl. -ties) 1. a strong desire to know or learn something. 2. a strange or unusual object or fact.

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