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This is a [[Comedy]] trope in which when you grab the contents of a jar, your hand winds up getting stuck, because of the way you have a grip on it.
 
The difference between this and [[Hand in The Hole]] is with [[Clutching Hand Trap]], the victim does it on their will, since they both want what's inside, and know what's inside. Example, when [[Bratty Half -Pint]] wants a cookie from the cookie jar. [[Hand in The Hole]] is when the victim is being an [[What an Idiot!|idiot]] and has no idea what's in there but is inserting their hand anyway.
 
This trope can come with [[An Aesop]] about greediness if the character is unable to get their hand out of the jar because they're holding too much food.
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== [[Oral Tradition]] ==
* Several old stories use this trope.
** [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boy_And_The_Filberts:The Boy And The Filberts|The Boy and the Filberts]] (attributed to the Greek philosopher Epictetus). A boy reaches into a pitcher of figs and filberts and grabs so many that he can't get his hand out. A passing stranger advises him to release some of them. He does so and succeeds in removing his hand. Epictetus died in A.D. 135, making this [[Older Than Feudalism]].
** Idries Shah's ''Tales of the Dervishes'' had a story (attributed to Khwaja Ali Ramitani, who died in 1306) in which a monkey was trapped by putting cherries in a jar. The monkey was so greedy that it grabbed too many cherries and couldn\'t remove its hand.
 
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