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guide to living life. Riddles play a crucial role in the series, the main protagonist, Morgon of Hed, beginning his journey by winning the crown of the kings of Aum in a Riddle Game with the ancient ghost of Peven of Aum; Peven had a standing wager going that no one could win a riddle-game with him, and those who lost against him forfeited their lives. "Beware the unanswered riddle."
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1388:, are in origin translations of riddles by Aldhelm (and Riddle 35 the only Old English riddle to be attested in another manuscript besides the Exeter Book). Unlike the pithy three-line riddles of Symphosius, the Old English riddles tend to be discursive, often musing on complex processes of manufacture when describing artefacts such as mead (
1007:. Taylor cited the following example: '"Who moves in the air? Who makes a noise on seeing a thief? Who is the enemy of lotuses? Who is the climax of fury?" The answers to the first three questions, when combined in the manner of a charade, yield the answer to the fourth question. The first answer is bird (
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school texts which show no literary polish". The answers to the riddles are not preserved; the riddles include "my knees hasten, my feet do not rest, a shepherd without pity drives me to pasture" (a river? A rowboat?); "you went and took the enemy's property; the enemy came and took your property" (a
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in the post-War period encouraged more researchers to study the social role of riddles and riddling, highlighting their role of re-orienting reality in the face of fear and anxiety. However, wide-ranging studies of riddles have tended to be limited to
Western countries, with Asian and African riddles
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trilogy, the ancient art of riddlery is taught at the
College of Caithnard â the study based on books recovered from the ruins of the School of Wizards. The riddles in the series are composed of three parts â the question, the answer, and the stricture â and are both a way of recording history and a
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Anthropological research in Africa has produced extensive collections of riddles over the last century or so. Riddles have been characterised as "one of the most important forms of oral art in Africa"; Hamnett analyzes
African riddling from an anthropological viewpoint; Yoruba riddles have enjoyed a
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composed at least eight verse riddles on themes such as a pen, gold, and the privy, this was seen as a lapse in taste by many of his contemporaries. However, although riddles are seldom used today as a literary form in their own right, they have arguably influenced the approach to poetry of a number
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Finnic riddles are noteworthy in relation to the rest of the world's oral riddle canon for its original imagery, their abundance of sexual riddles, and the interesting collision of influences from east and west; along with the attestation in some regions of an elaborate riddle-game. Riddles provide
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It took place without teams, but was a kind of a contest: a member of the group would be sent out of the room, the others agreed on the riddle to be posed; for three failures to divine the answer, the riddlee would have to drop out of the game, to step aside, and to "buy" with a token the right to
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serve to encode and establish social norms, "riddles make a point of playing with conceptual boundaries and crossing them for the intellectual pleasure of showing that things are not quite as stable as they seem" â though the point of doing so may still ultimately be to "play with boundaries, but
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While medieval records of
Germanic-language riddles are patchy, with the advent of print in the West, collections of riddles and similar kinds of questions began to be published. A large number of riddle collections were printed in the German-speaking world and, partly under German influence, in
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Someone will say, "What I desire and what I am seeking is that which bears a lake within itself;" and by this is intended a pumpkin or calabash. Another will say, "What I ask for is seen in my eyesâit will be marked with various colors"; and because the same Huron word that signifies "eye" also
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musical genre in which guitar players compete in a symbolic duel. Two guitar players challenge each other in song by asking a riddle-like question and/or answering the opponent's questions. This is performed through several successive rounds of witty exchanges which may include banter and even
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says that "we can probably say that riddling is a universal art" and cites riddles from hundreds of different cultures including
Finnish, Hungarian, American Indian, Chinese, Russian, Dutch and Filipino sources amongst many others. Many riddles and riddle-themes are internationally widespread.
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In many cultures or contexts, people are not actually expected to guess the answers to riddles: they may be told by the riddler, or learn riddles and their answers together as they grow up. Thus riddle-contests are not the only or even necessarily the main forum for the expression of riddles.
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The riddle was at times a prominent literary form in the ancient and medieval world, and so riddles are extensively, if patchily, attested in our written records from these periods. More recently, riddles have been collected from oral tradition by scholars in many parts of the world.
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in 1963. Georges and Dundes suggested that "a riddle is a traditional verbal expression which contains one or more descriptive elements, a pair of which may be in opposition; the referent of the elements is to be guessed". There are many possible sub-sets of the riddle, including
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who is personally compelled to supply clues about his upcoming crimes to his enemies in the form of riddles and puzzles. Stereotypically, they are these kinds of simple children's riddles, but modern treatments generally prefer to have the character use more sophisticated
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In both Arabic and
Persian, riddles seem to have become increasingly scholarly in style over time, increasingly emphasising riddles and puzzles in which the interpreter has to resolve clues to letters and numbers to put together the word which is the riddle's solution.
1396:). They are noted for providing perspectives on the world which give voice to actors which tend not to appear in Old English poetry, ranging from female slaves to animals and plants, and they often subvert the conventions of Old English heroic and religious poetry.
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whereby riddles have been preserved for posterity. Such contests are a subset of wisdom contests more generally. They tend to fall into two groups: testing the wisdom of a king or other aristocrat; and testing the suitability of a suitor. Correspondingly, the
1639:(including the modern Finland, Estonia, and parts of Western Russia) is fairly unitary, though eastern Finnish-speaking regions show particular influence of Russian Orthodox Christianity and Slavonic riddle culture. The Finnish for "riddle" is
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Few riddles are attested in medieval Celtic languages, though this depends on how narrowly a riddle is defined; some early medieval Welsh and Irish juridical texts have been read as being riddles. One undisputed riddle is attested in medieval
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Riddles in the
Americas are of particular interest to scholarship because it was long thought that native American cultures had no autochthonous riddle traditions (as opposed to riddles inspired by European culture, as with the twenty-two
2174:, the ka-tet must riddle against Blaine the Mono in order to save their lives. At first Blaine can answer all riddles posed to him by the ka-tet easily, but then Eddie Dean, one of the ka-tet, gains the upper hand when he starts to ask
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is a key witness to the linguistic transition from Latin to
Romance, but riddles are otherwise rare in medieval romance languages. However, in the early modern period, printed riddle collections were published in French, including the
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Many riddles appear in similar form across many countries, and often continents. Borrowing of riddles happens both on a local scale, and across great distances. Kofi Dorvlo gives an example of a riddle that has been borrowed from the
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In the medieval period, however, verse riddles, alongside other puzzles and conundra, became a significant literary form in the Arabic-speaking world, and accordingly in
Islamic Persian culture and in Hebrew â particularly in
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As of the 1970s, folklorists had not undertaken extensive collecting of riddles in India, but riddling was known to be thriving as a form of folk-literature, sometimes in verse. Riddles have also been collected in Tamil.
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The earliest riddles attested in Irish are generally held to be found in a short collection from the fifteenth-century Book of Fermoy. However, other forms of wisdom contest do occur in Irish literature, such as
1910:. He argues for recognition of the importance of the riddling act, not merely gathering and studying lists of riddles. Grivas Muchineripi Kayange has seen African riddles as a window into African philosophy.
1142:, there is a natural overlap in style and approach between poetry generally and riddles specifically; literary riddles are therefore often a subset of the descriptive poetic form known in both traditions as
1259:, a collection of Latin riddles clearly modelled on Symphosius, were composed in the early seventh century by an unknown author, perhaps in northern Italy. Symphosius's collection also inspired a number of
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Riddles continued to flourish until recently as an oral form of entertainment, however; the seminal collection of
Anglophone riddles from the early modern period through to the twentieth century is
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The Chinese riddle-tradition makes much use of visual puns on Chinese characters. One example is the riddle "ć é äŒ ć é"; these characters respectively mean 'thousand kilometre meet thousand gold'.
1372:. Aldhelm was followed by a number of other Anglo-Saxons writing riddles in Latin. This prestigious literary heritage contextualises the survival of nearly one hundred riddles in the tenth-century
739:, from around 1500â1000 BCE, describes a 'twelve-spoked wheel, upon which stand 720 sons of one birth' (i.e. the twelve months of the year, which together supposedly have 360 days and 360 nights).
580:. For example, the Russian phrase "Nothing hurts it, but it groans all the time" can be deployed as a proverb (when its referent is a hypochondriac) or as a riddle (when its referent is a pig).
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weaving shuttle?); "who becomes pregnant without conceiving, who becomes fat without eating?" (a raincloud?). These may be riddles from oral tradition that a teacher has put into a schoolbook.
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Scandinavia. Riddles were evidently hugely popular in Germany: a recent research project uncovered more than 100,000 early modern German riddles, with the most important collection being that
2124:, although Bilbo asked more of a simple question than a riddle, by attempting to answer it rather than challenging it Gollum accepted it as a riddle; by accepting it, his loss was binding.
1228:, the philosopher stated that "good riddles do, in general, provide us with satisfactory metaphors: for metaphors imply riddles, and therefore a good riddle can furnish a good metaphor."
1214:. Oracles were also represented as speaking in often riddlic language. However, the first significant corpus of Greek riddles survives in an anthology of earlier material known as the
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In the twentieth century, thousands of riddles and similar enigmas have been collected, capitalising on the large number of homophones in Chinese. Examples of folk-riddles include:
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Here, the oxen are the scribe's finger(s) and thumb, and the plough is the pen. Among literary riddles, riddles on the pen and other writing equipment are particularly widespread.
3995:, ed. by Leea Virtanen, Annikki Kaivola-BregenhĂžj and Aarre Nyman, Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, Toimituksia, 329 (: Suomen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 1977), pp. 77â89 (at 80â82).
1164:(920â990), credited with transposing Arabic metres into Hebrew, composed a number of riddles, mostly apparently inspired by folk-riddles. Other Hebrew-writing exponents included
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Defining riddles precisely is hard and has attracted a fair amount of scholarly debate. The first major modern attempt to define the riddle in modern Western scholarship was by
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Much academic research on riddles has focused on collecting, cataloguing, defining, and typologising riddles. Key work on cataloguing and typologising riddles was published by
4007:, ed. and trans. by Matti Kuusi, Keith Bosley and Michael Branch, Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seuran toimituksia, 329 (Helsinki: Finnish Literature Society, 1977), pp. 33â34.
1936:). If so, this would have suggested that riddles are not a universal art form. However, Hieronymus Lalemant gave a fairly detailed account of a riddle-contest among the
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That is, "the snow (featherless bird) lies on a bare tree in winter (leafless tree), and the sun (speechless maiden) causes the snow to melt (ate the featherless bird)".
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1239:, into the fifteenth century, along with a neo-Byzantine revival in around the early eighteenth century. There was a particular peak around the long twelfth century.
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Riddles are known to have been popular in Greece in Hellenistic times, and possibly before; they were prominent among the entertainments and challenges presented at
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Isbell, Billie Jean; Roncalla Fernandez, Fredy Amilcar, "The Ontogenesis of Metaphor: Riddle Games among Quechua Speakers Seen as Cognitive Discovery Procedures",
1761:(618â907). In this tradition, the answer to the riddle is to be established through years of meditation, informed by Zen thought, as part of a process of seeking
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The Jewish Encyclopedia: A Descriptive Record of the History, Religion, Literature, and Customs of the Jewish People from the Earliest Times to the Present Day
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Helen Price, âHuman and NonHuman in Anglo-Saxon and British Postwar Poetry: Reshaping Literary Ecologyâ (unpublished Ph.D. thesis, University of Leeds, 2013).
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Attic red-figure pelike, Oedipus solves the riddle of the Sphinx and frees Thebes, by the Achilleus painter, 450â440 BC, Altes Museum Berlin (13718779634)
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The second stage of solving the riddle is visual: combining the radical "é©Ź" (horse) with the radical "ć„ł" (daughter) produces the character "ćŠ" (mother).
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who wrote in Latin. They remained influential in medieval Castilian tradition, being the basis for the second set of riddles in the thirteenth-century
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Meanwhile, because "a daughter is very important in the family", in Chinese culture it is possible to resolve "ć é" (thousand gold) as "ć„ł" (daughter).
3000:, Vishveshvaranand Indological Series, 67/Vishveshvaranand Institute Publications, 632 (Hoshiarpur: Vishveshvaranand Vedic Research Institute, 1975).
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In Chinese culture, "it is said that a good horse can run thousands of kilometers per day", so "ć é" (thousand kilometer) is resolved as "é©Ź" (horse).
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contains a long section of proverbial wisdom that in some versions also contains riddles. Otherwise, riddles are sparse in ancient Semitic writing.
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3847:, ed. by Josoph Falaky Nagy and Leslie Ellen Jones (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2005), pp. 336-43; Robin Chapman Stacey, 'Speaking in Riddles', in
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in South America. Thus, while data remains rather thin, it seems clear that riddling did exist in the Americas independently of European culture.
3950:, University of California Publications in Modern Philology, 26 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1942); Vernam Hull and Archer Taylor,
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and five are pronounced similarly to the English words "Cat" and "Sank", hence the pun being the cat sank while also counting to five in French.
2006:, a contest of wit and skill in which players take turns asking riddles. The player that cannot answer loses. Riddle games occur frequently in
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Accordingly, during the twentieth century, progressively more substantial collections of Native American riddles were made, including from the
648:: "This woman has not been to the riverside for water, but there is water in her tank". The answer is "a coconut". On a much wider scale, the
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596:. In the case of ancient riddles recorded without solutions, considerable scholarly energy also goes into proposing and debating solutions.
1547:, as in "Why is six afraid of seven?" "Because seven eight nine (eight can be replaced with ate)." These riddles are now mostly children's
3569:, ed. by Alan D. Deyermond (TĂĄmesis, 1976), pp. 31â43, cited by Harriet Goldberg, "Riddles and Enigmas in Medieval Castilian Literature",
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4631:, ed. by Jan Kwapzt, David Petrain, and Mikolaj Szymanski, BeitrĂ€ge zur Altertumskunde (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2013), pp. 184â95 (p. 184).
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Sitzungsberichte der philosophisch-philologischen und historischen Classe der Köngl. bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu MĂŒnchen
1224:, working in the tenth century CE. Most surviving ancient Greek riddles are in verse. In the second chapter of Book III of Aristotle's
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signifies "glass bead", this is a clue to divine what he desiresânamely, some kind of beads of this material, and of different colors.
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Rebcca R. Benefiel, "Magic Squares, Alphabet Jumbles, Riddles and More: The Culture of Word-Games among the Graffiti of Pompeii", in
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3851:, ed. by Próinséas Nà Chathåin (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2002), pp. 243-48; Fergus Kelly, 'An Old-Irish Text on Court Procedure',
2373:; cf. Hannah Burrows, "Wit and Wisdom: The Worldview of the Old Norse-Icelandic Riddles and their Relationship to Eddic Poetry", in
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can be understood to comprise a series of riddles or enigmas which are now obscure but may have been an enigmatic exposition of the
3612:, ed. by Brian Murdoch, Camden House History of German Literature, 2 (Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2004), pp. 157â200 (pp. 181â82).
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The conceit here is that Two-legs is a person, Three-legs is a three-legged stool, Four-legs is a dog, and One-leg is a ham hock.
611:; meanwhile, the twenty-first century has seen the rise of extensive work on medieval European riddles from the point of view of
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probably inspired by Latin riddles on the same theme. However, this record is supplemented by Latin material, apparently from a
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Burrows, Hannah, "Wit and Wisdom: The Worldview of the Old Norse-Icelandic Riddles and their Relationship to Eddic Poetry", in
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is 'White field, black seeds', where the field is a page and the seeds are letters. An example is the eighth- or ninth-century
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to a riddle competition for his life. Bilbo breaks "the ancient rules" of the game but is able to escape with Gollum's magic
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3954:, University of California Publications: Folklore Studies, 6 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1955; Thomas Parry,
3361:(Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1948), pp. 33â35, citing Nehemya Aluny, "Ten Dunash Ben Labrat's Riddles",
2968:(Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1948), pp. 12â13, citing M. Jaeger, "Assyrische RĂ€thsel und Sprichwörter",
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Proceedings of the 2016 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Austin, Texas, November 1â5, 2016
3552:, ed. by Carl Lindahl, John McNamara and John Lindow, 2 vols (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2000), II 824â32 (pp. 826â27).
2896:, 3 vols, Folklore Fellows Communications, 26â28 (Helsinki/Hamina: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, 1918â20), II 24â59 (p. 24).
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3834:, ed. by Carl Lindahl, John McNamara and John Lindow, 2 vols (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2000), II 824-32 (p. 829).
3586:, ed. by Carl Lindahl, John McNamara and John Lindow, 2 vols (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2000), II 824-32 (p. 830).
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verse. The riddles in this book vary in subject matter from ribald innuendo to theological sophistication. Three,
2936:, 3 vols, Folklore Fellows Communications, 26â28 (Helsinki/Hamina: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, 1918â20), III 3â48.
2849:, 3 vols, Folklore Fellows Communications, 26â28 (Helsinki/Hamina: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, 1918â20), I 74â178.
3663:, "Changing Style and Changing Meaning: Icelandic Historiography and the Medieval Redactions of HeiĂ°reks saga",
2789:, 3 vols, Folklore Fellows Communications, 26â28 (Helsinki/Hamina: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, 1918â20), I 35â73.
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Whereas previously researchers had tended to take riddles out of their social performance contexts, the rise of
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Chuanqi Tan, Furu Wei, Li Dong, Weifeng Lv, and Ming Zhou, "Solving and Generating Chinese Character Riddles",
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There were two cats, 1 2 3 cat and un deux trois cat, they had a swimming race from England to France. Who won?
3687:, ed. by Martin Chase (New York: Fordham University Press, 2014), 114â35; Hannah Burrows, "Enigma Variations:
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insultsâtypically with a humorous intent. The most famous literary example of counterpoint payada comes from
1404:, first published around 1500 and many times reprinted. This is one of the most famous riddles of that time:
1148:. Riddles are attested in anthologies of poetry and in prosimetrical portrayals of riddle-contests in Arabic
615:, exploring how riddles can inform us about people's conceptualisation and exploration of their environment.
3539:, ed. by Jan Kwapzt, David Petrain, and Mikolaj Szymanski (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2013), pp. 65â79 (pp. 72â75).
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The unsolvable riddle with which literary characters often win a riddle-contest is sometimes referred to as
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propounds around 37 riddles (depending on the manuscript). These riddles do, however, provide insights into
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Key examples of internationally widespread riddles follow, based on the classic (European-focused) study by
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3457:, ed. by Jan Kwapzt, David Petrain, and Mikolaj Szymanski (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2013), pp. 148â67 (p. 148).
3414:, ed. by Jan Kwapzt, David Petrain, and Mikolaj Szymanski (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2013), pp. 121â47 (p. 140).
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Literary riddles in China first begin to be attested in significant numbers around the second century CE.
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3470:, ed. by Jan Kwapzt, David Petrain, and Mikolaj Szymanski (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2013), pp. 83â99 (p. 84).
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Martin Haug, "Vedische RĂ€thselfragen und RĂ€thselsprĂŒche (Uebersetzung und ErklĂ€rung von Rigv. 1, 164)",
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After the early Middle Ages, the riddle was seldom used as a literary form in English. Tellingly, while
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3081:(Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1948), pp. 16â17, citing A. FĂŒhrer, "Sanskrit-RĂ€thsel",
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Jan E. M. Houben, "The Ritual Pragmatics of a Vedic Hymn: The 'Riddle Hymn' and the Pravargya Ritual",
2530:, 3 vols, Folklore Fellows Communications, 26â28 (Helsinki/Hamina: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, 1918â20).
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Even research on the post-medieval Celtic-speaking world has yielded a "comparatively meagre corpus".
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1251:. The pre-eminent collection of ancient Latin riddles is a collection of 100 hexametrical riddles by
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Die skandinavischen RĂ€tselbĂŒcher auf der Grundlage der deutschen RĂ€tselbuch-Traditionen (1540â1805)
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Elaborate and unusual riddle-games took place in the culture of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century
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Strassburger RĂ€thselbuch: Die erste zu Strassburg ums Jahr 1505 gedruckte deutsche RĂ€thselsammlung
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4065:, ed. by Galit Hasan-Rokem and David Shulman (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996), pp. 225â36.
3651:, Sammlung Metzler, 53. RealienbĂŒcher fĂŒr Germanisten. Abt. E: Poetik (Stuttgart: Metzler, 1966).
3431:, ed. by Jan Kwapzt, David Petrain, and Mikolaj Szymanski (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2013), pp. 121â47.
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845:, to which the pre-eminent solution is 'cow' is given here in thirteenth-century Icelandic form:
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The riddle describes a crawling baby, a standing person, and an old person with a walking stick.
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3444:, ed. by Jan Kwapzt, David Petrain, and Mikolaj Szymanski (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2013), pp. 83â99.
2143:, Will and Bran must win a riddle game in order for Bran to claim his heritage as the Pendragon.
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catalogue two main folktale-types including riddle-contests: AT 927, Outriddling the Judge, and
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Likewise, early modern English-speakers published printed riddle collections, such as the 1598
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4448:, Studia Fennica, Folkloristica, 10 (Helsinki: Finnish Literature Society, 2001), pp. 35â36;
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The first riddle collection in a medieval Indic language is traditionally thought to be the
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1592:, an elaborate text entitled 'Canu y Gwynt' ('song of the wind') in the fourteenth-century
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The Reception of Hervarar saga ok HeiĂ°reks from the Middle Ages to the Seventeenth Century
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Christine Luz, "What has it got in its Pocketses? Or, What Makes a Riddle a Riddle?", in
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Christine Luz, "What has it got in its Pocketses? Or, What Makes a Riddle a Riddle?", in
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When you use it you throw it away, and when you do not use it you bring it back. (Anchor)
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There is a small vessel filled with sauce, one vessel holding two different kinds. (Egg)
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Human and NonHuman in Anglo-Saxon and British Postwar Poetry: Reshaping Literary Ecology
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Riddles have also attracted linguists, often studying riddles from the point of view of
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Heroic Poets and Poetic Heroes in Celtic Tradition: A Festschrift for Patrick K. Ford
3703:
3484:
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2240:
1814:
1669:
1494:
1265:
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Riddles have been collected by modern scholars throughout the Arabic-speaking world.
1161:
1095:
247:
132:
113:
108:
3946:(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010), p. 115. Cf. Vernam Hull and Archer Taylor,
2587:
999:. These riddles overlap in significant part with a collection of forty-seven in the
5137:
5067:
4603:
4554:
4449:
4411:
4339:
4290:
4262:
4233:
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4120:
4024:
3904:
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3366:
3257:
3178:
3139:
3104:
3027:
2806:
2711:, Medieval European Studies, 17 (Morgantown: West Virginia University Press, 2015).
2709:
Isidorean Perceptions of Order: The Exeter Book Riddles and Medieval Latin Enigmata
2682:
2645:
2592:
2570:
2460:
2427:
2422:
Georges, Robert A.; Dundes, Alan. "Towards a Structural Definition of the Riddle",
2358:
2328:
2255:
2245:
2235:
2215:
2099:
2049:
1954:
1933:
1833:
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1723:
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1593:
1520:
1099:
1091:
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390:
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90:
26:
3813:
3761:
2591:, Studia Fennica, Folkloristica, 10 (Helsinki: Finnish Literature Society, 2001),
2053:
1989:
1618:, first attested in the fifteenth century, at least one riddle is arguably posed.
1500:
once wrote "All is a riddle, and the key to a riddle ... is another riddle".
1075:
4995:
4932:
4860:
3832:
Medieval Folklore: An Encyclopedia of Myths, Legends, Tales, Beliefs, and Customs
3584:
Medieval Folklore: An Encyclopedia of Myths, Legends, Tales, Beliefs, and Customs
3550:
Medieval Folklore: An Encyclopedia of Myths, Legends, Tales, Beliefs, and Customs
2611:"Into the Darkness First: Neoplatonism And Neurosis In Old English Wisdom Poetry"
2250:
2225:
1887:
1722:
The posing and solving of riddles has long been an important part of the Chinese
1540:
1478:
1350:
1324:
1288:
1273:
1216:
1205:
1169:
1126:
676:
320:
4706:
3638:, Hermea: Germanistische Forschungen, Neue Folge, 69 (TĂŒbingen: Niemeyer, 1994).
3625:, MĂŒnchner Nordistische Studien, 14 (MĂŒnchen: Herbert Utz Verlag, 2013), p. 198.
1973:
Riddles are found extensively in the settler-colonial cultures of the Americas.
1319:
The Exeter Book: the principal manuscript of medieval Germanic-language riddles.
1104:
While riddles are not numerous in the Bible, they are present, most famously in
974:
It is thought that the world's earliest surviving poetic riddles survive in the
5010:
4855:
4847:
4328:
Meaning and Truth in African Philosophy: Doing African Philosophy with Language
4257:
Hamnett, Ian, "Ambiguity, Classification and Change: the Function of Riddles",
4028:
2034:
1962:
1937:
1589:
1482:
1469:
1236:
1220:, which contains about 50 verse riddles, probably put into its present form by
1165:
1109:
1050:
1031:
672:
645:
195:
4376:
Cf. Wolfgang Mieder, "Proverbs of the Native Americans; A Prize Competition",
4343:
3522:
2686:
1726:. China also contributed a distinctive kind of riddle known in English as the
1686:(ćș, "base", the answer component). Ancient Chinese terms for 'riddle' include
1558:
Some riddles are composed of foreign words and play on similar sounds, as in:
422:
57:
5131:
4957:
4915:
4872:
4682:
4423:
3222:
2403:
2340:
2280:
2129:
2113:
2003:
1958:
1899:
recent monograph study. Wambi Cornelius Gulere wrote his doctoral project at
1719:
Thus the answer to "thousand kilometres meet thousand gold" is "ćŠ" (mother).
1612:, first attested in twelfth-century manuscripts, and in one such contest, in
1512:
1504:
1474:
1256:
1030:
Accordingly, riddles are treated in early studies of Sanskrit poetry such as
628:
612:
593:
549:
545:
456:
449:
language that require ingenuity and careful thinking for their solution, and
200:
179:
76:
4749:
3392:
Persian and Arabic Riddles: A Language-Centered Approach to Genre Definition
3159:, A History of Indian Literature, 8 (Harrassowitz: Wiesbaden, 1975), p. 129.
2858:
Frederick Tupper, Jr, "Originals and Analogues of the Exeter Book Riddles",
1775:
Washing makes it more and more dirty; it is cleaner without washing. (Water)
1043:
Early narrative literature also sometimes includes riddles, prominently the
5089:
5031:
4962:
4837:
4627:
Erin Sebo, "In scirpo nodum: Symphosius' Reworking of the Riddle Form", in
4182:. In Iwasaki, Soichi; Simpaon, Andrew; Adams, Karen; Sidwell, Paul (eds.).
2159:
2134:
1874:
1796:
1758:
1357:
1173:
1150:
1060:
1027:'s first teacher and counselor and a man noted for his outbursts of rage'.
900:
The cow has four teats, four legs, two horns, two back legs, and one tail.
641:
600:
290:
174:
99:
4643:, ed. by Marjorie Dundas (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2002).
4446:
Riddles: Perspectives on the Use, Function, and Change in a Folklore Genre
4294:
3402:
3400:
3136:
Riddles: Perspectives on the Use, Function, and Change in a Folklore Genre
2588:
Riddles: Perspectives on the Use, Function, and Change in a Folklore Genre
1335:, mostly quoted in other literary contexts. Likewise, riddles are rare in
471:
riddles, but with an insight that has been taken up more widely), whereas
5046:
4902:
4795:
3685:
Eddic, Skaldic, and Beyond: Poetic Variety in Medieval Iceland and Norway
3660:
2997:
Indian Riddles: A Forgotten Chapter in the History of Sanskrit Literature
2801:
Luke Powers, "Tests for True Wit: Jonathan Swift's Pen and Ink Riddles",
2375:
Eddic, Skaldic, and Beyond: Poetic Variety in Medieval Iceland and Norway
2275:
2265:
2191:
2175:
2077:
2022:
1984:
1788:
1385:
1377:
1373:
1045:
1036:
1020:
1000:
727:
660:
632:
589:
570:
557:
525:
335:
300:
190:
156:
4495:
3916:
3672:
3296:, ed. by Isidore Singer (New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1901â1907), s.v.
3245:
2387:
1353:, medieval Scandinavian social norms, and rarely attested poetic forms.
656:, possibly carried there by Western contacts in the last two centuries.
5116:
5041:
5000:
4990:
4920:
4910:
4822:
4805:
4385:
4330:, Philosophical Studies Series, 135 (Cham: Springer, 2018), pp. 73â88;
4274:
4145:
4096:
4049:
3727:(Frankfurt am Main: Lang, 2010) (PhD thesis, MĂŒnster University, 2004).
3397:
3378:
3269:
2867:
2832:
2818:
2187:
2104:
2037:, riddle-competitions were popular as an intellectual entertainment at
1369:
1346:
1252:
1135:
325:
265:
210:
4615:
4431:
4399:
4245:
4216:
4109:
3694:
s Wave-Riddles and Supernatural Women in Old Norse Poetic Tradition",
3204:
3190:
3169:
Prakash Vatuk, Ved (1969). "Amir Khusro and Indian Riddle Tradition".
3116:
3095:
Prakash Vatuk, Ved (1969). "Amir Khusro and Indian Riddle Tradition".
3039:
2657:
2582:
2497:
Umoh, S. J. 2007. "The Ibibio ProverbâRiddles and Language Pedagogy".
2472:
2439:
2370:
2316:
1824:
before saying the riddle; usually it is common to create riddles that
1655:
some of the first surviving evidence for Finnish-language literature.
5094:
5051:
5005:
4972:
4927:
4892:
4559:
4537:
4516:
4474:
4364:
4019:
Timothy Wai Keung Chan, 'A New Reading of an Early Medieval Riddle',
3908:
3788:
Puzzling the Reader: Riddles in Nineteenth-century British Literature
2836:(unpublished doctoral thesis, University of Leeds, 2013), pp. 92â128.
2042:
2038:
2007:
1336:
1327:: three, very short, possible examples exist in manuscripts from the
1232:
1211:
1156:
1139:
1124:
also mentions riddles as a popular dinner pastime, while the Aramaic
996:
988:
608:
330:
233:
220:
4585:
Ghiano, Juan Carlos (1974). "El Contrapunto de Fierro y el Moreno".
4453:
4266:
3975:
Leea Virtanen, "The Collecting and Study of Riddles in Finland", in
3892:
3427:'Gods Cannot Tell Lies': Riddling and Ancient Greek Divination", in
3410:'Gods Cannot Tell Lies': Riddling and Ancient Greek Divination", in
3370:
3261:
3143:
2810:
2596:
1568:
1 2 3 Cat because Un deux trois quatre cinq (un deux trois cat sank)
930:
Here, a snowflake falls from the sky, and is blown off by the wind.
5036:
5015:
4980:
4780:
4656:, Garland Folklore Library, 7 (New York: Garland, 1993), pp. 10â11.
4607:
4415:
4237:
4208:
4124:
3933:, Garland Folklore Library, 7 (New York: Garland, 1993), pp. 36â37.
3849:
Ireland and Europe in the Early Middle Ages: Texts and Transmission
3182:
3108:
3066:
Homo Ludens: Proeve eener bepaling van het spel-element der cultuur
3031:
2673:(Stuttgart: M und P, Verlag fĂŒr Wissenschaft und Forschung, 1991):
2649:
2574:
2464:
2431:
2362:
2332:
2270:
2205:
2117:
2011:
1883:
1801:
1754:
1601:
975:
794:
This type includes riddles along the lines of this German example:
735:
731:
566:
562:
446:
442:
426:
4712:
2056:
observed customary riddle-contests in nineteenth-century Finland:
1535:" (Child 47). Contemporary English-language riddles typically use
4877:
4827:
4576:. Ed. Centro de DocumentaciĂłn Musical de AndalucĂa, 1992, pĂĄg. 27
4061:
Andrew H. Plaks, 'Riddle and Enigma in Chinese Civilization', in
3333:
Courtly Riddles: Enigmatic Embellishments in Early Persian Poetry
2983:
Courtly Riddles: Enigmatic Embellishments in Early Persian Poetry
2772:
p. 266. Davenport, William. 1952. Fourteen Marshallese Riddles.
2629:
Courtly Riddles: Enigmatic Embellishments in Early Persian Poetry
2556:(University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2011).
1813:
as a form of past time or as an activity. One peculiarity of the
1365:
1248:
1113:
979:
956:
577:
468:
315:
295:
161:
4629:
The Muse at Play: Riddles and Wordplay in Greek and Latin Poetry
4315:
Riddle Performance and Societal Discourses: Lessons from Busoga.
3537:
The Muse at Play: Riddles and Wordplay in Greek and Latin Poetry
3468:
The Muse at Play: Riddles and Wordplay in Greek and Latin Poetry
3455:
The Muse at Play: Riddles and Wordplay in Greek and Latin Poetry
3442:
The Muse at Play: Riddles and Wordplay in Greek and Latin Poetry
3429:
The Muse at Play: Riddles and Wordplay in Greek and Latin Poetry
3412:
The Muse at Play: Riddles and Wordplay in Greek and Latin Poetry
3348:(Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1948), pp. 35â37.
3309:(Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1948), pp. 41â42.
3055:(Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1948), pp. 13â17.
1728:
1678:(èŹ, literally "to bewilder"). Riddles are spoken of as having a
4952:
4887:
4817:
4730:
3987:
3985:
3868:, Garland Folklore Library, 7 (New York: Garland, 1993), p. 35.
3843:
Robin Chapman Stacey, 'Instructional Riddles in Welsh Law', in
2923:, trans. by Christopher Tolkien (London: Nelson, 1960), p. 43 .
2183:
2109:
2086:
1978:
1906:
1818:
1741:
1548:
1508:
1247:
Two Latin riddles are preserved as graffiti in the Basilica at
1121:
1117:
1055:
434:
430:
238:
49:
4686:
4199:
Elli KöngÀs Maranda, "Riddles and Riddling: An Introduction",
4078:(Association for Computational Linguistics, 2016), pp. 846â55.
4005:
Finnish Folk Poetry: Epic. An Anthology in Finnish and English
3814:"IX. Illusions. Ralph Waldo Emerson. 1904. The Complete Works"
2735:
Nonhuman Voices in Anglo-Saxon Literature and Material Culture
2640:
Elli KöngÀs Maranda, "Riddles and Riddling: An Introduction",
2353:
Elli KöngÀs Maranda, "Riddles and Riddling: An Introduction",
1315:
4800:
4528:
Charles T. Scott, "New Evidence of American Indian Riddles",
2514:, ed. by Richard Dorson (The Hague: Mouton, 1975), pp. 103â8.
1925:
1825:
1511:
collected from oral tradition. Some of those included in the
1507:'s. Riddles are, for example, prominent in some early-modern
1004:
955:
According to Archer Taylor, "the oldest recorded riddles are
508:, which meant 'to interpret, guess'. From this verb came the
4159:
Riddles in Philippine Folklore: An Anthropological Analysis.
3982:
2065:
1787:
Quite similar to its English counterpart, the riddle in the
1682:(éą, "surface", the question component of the riddle), and a
1255:
which were influential on later medieval Latin writers. The
4942:
4867:
3750:
Simpliciana: Schriften der Grimmelshausen Gesellschaft 2014
3256:(1). Nanzan Institute for Religion & Culture: 125â149.
2565:
E.g. David Evans, "Riddling and the Structure of Context",
1552:
1544:
1543:
for humorous effect, rather than to puzzle the butt of the
1144:
1024:
823:
Then Two-legs took Three-legs and with it struck Four-legs,
472:
206:
4741:
4701:
3246:"A Collection of Jaffna Tamil Riddles from Oral Tradition"
576:
In some traditions and contexts, riddles may overlap with
1905:
Riddle Performance and Societal Discourses: Lessons from
1751:
1536:
1108:
in Judges xiv.14, but also in I Kings 10:1â13 (where the
4398:
Noguera, Eduardo Guadalupe; Pauer, Paul Siliceo (1918).
3608:
Christopher Wells, "The Shorter German Verse Texts", in
3453:
Jan Kwapisz, "Were there Hellenistic Riddle Books?", in
3026:, 120 (2000), 499â536 (English translation pp. 533â36),
2543:, Folklore Fellows Communications, 126 (Helsinki, 1939).
912:
is best known in Central Europe. An English version is:
548:
in 1899, with another seminal contribution, inspired by
3777:(Berkeley: University of California Press, 1948), p. 2.
3083:
Zeitschrift der Deutschen morgenlÀndischen Gesellschaft
2615:
Darkness, Depression and Descent in Anglo-Saxon England
2178:, effectively frustrating Blaine's highly logical mind.
2076:
In older texts, riddle-contests frequently provide the
1283:(printed in Bruges by Colard Mansion around 1479); and
1269:, posed by Apolonio's daughter Tarsiana to her father.
4718:
4469:, 57 (no. 223) (JanuaryâMarch, 1944), 1â15 (pp. 2â3).
4359:, 57 (no. 223) (JanuaryâMarch, 1944), 1â15 (pp. 1â2).
4063:
Untying the Knot: On Riddles and Other Enigmatic Modes
2499:
International Journal of Linguistics and Communication
2455:
John C. Messenger, Jr. 1960. "Anang Proverb-Riddles".
789:
730:
is found across Eurasia. For example, a riddle in the
3288:
3286:
3157:
Classical Urdu Literature from the Beginning to IqbÄl
1674:
In modern Chinese, the standard word for 'riddle' is
631:
stamp depicting a traditional Faroese version of the
4721:â A collection of riddles with answers for all ages.
4136:
Richard C. Rudolph, "Notes on the Riddle in China",
4087:
Richard C. Rudolph, "Notes on the Riddle in China",
4040:
Richard C. Rudolph, "Notes on the Riddle in China",
3881:(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010), pp. 114â15.
3567:
Medieval Hispanic Studies Presented to Rita Hamilton
2951:(Kaupmannahöfn: HiĂ° Ăslenzka bĂłkmenntafĂ©lag, 1887),
2418:
2416:
808:
Da nahm Zweibein Dreibein und schlug damit Vierbein,
2510:Alan Dundes, "On the Structure of the Proverb", in
821:
Then Four-legs came and took One-leg from Two-legs.
4654:Turandot's Sisters: A Study of the Folktale AT 851
4140:, 1.1 (Jan. 1942), pp. 65â82 (quoting pp. 74â75).
3931:Turandot's Sisters: A Study of the Folktale AT 851
3866:Turandot's Sisters: A Study of the Folktale AT 851
3504:
3283:
3205:Some Characteristic Meters of Hindi Riddle Prosody
2394:, 3rd edn (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010).
1464:And now, like a rogue, in the wide world I dwell.
1454:, which includes for example the following riddle:
1235:, from perhaps the tenth century with the work of
926:And rode away horseless to the King's white hall.
433:having a double or veiled meaning, put forth as a
4697:. Vol. 23 (11th ed.). pp. 316â317.
2948:Ăslenzkar gĂĄtur, skemtanir, vikivakar og Ăulur, I
2413:
2406:. "Neue Beitrëge zur Kenntnis des VolksrÀtsels",
2305:(Berkeley: University of California Press, 1951).
1704:The first stage of solving the riddle is verbal:
1575:This plays on the fact that the French words for
5129:
3991:Leea Virtanen, "On the Function of Riddles", in
2737:(Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2017).
1053:, a series of riddles posed by a nature-spirit (
16:Statement with a double meaning used as a puzzle
3696:JEGP: Journal of English and Germanic Philology
2631:(Leiden: Leiden University Press, 2010), 14â18.
2609:Boryslawski, Rafal (2019). Wehlau, Ruth (ed.).
1890:, riddles are also used at funeral gatherings.
853:
836:
4532:, 76 (no. 301) (JulyâSeptember 1963), 236â41.
3647:On German riddles, see further Mathilde Hain,
3505:MilovanoviÄ-Barham, Äelica (1993). "Aldhelm's
3243:
3123:The Riddle in Indian Life, Lore and Literature
2748:In Enigmate: The History of a Riddle, 400â1500
2317:"Riddles, Cultural Categories, and World View"
1300:
933:
806:Da kam Vierbein und nahm Zweibein das Einbein.
759:
4779:
4765:
4709:â A mix of both original and classic riddles.
4195:
4193:
4177:riddle game used at Pendau memorial services"
3168:
3094:
2522:
2520:
2089:, The Princess Who Can Not Solve the Riddle.
1918:
1848:
1356:By contrast, verse riddles were prominent in
1085:
687:
398:
4511:, 57 (no. 223) (JanuaryâMarch, 1944), 1â15.
4397:
3944:Irish Influence on Medieval Welsh Literature
3879:Irish Influence on Medieval Welsh Literature
3803:(Dallas: University Press of America, 2004).
2985:(Leiden: Leiden University Press, 2010), 14.
2722:The Natural World in the Exeter Book Riddles
1624:
1600:cultural background in North Britain, about
1582:
1412:
802:
747:The most famous example of this type is the
532:, the latter of which became modern English
441:, which are problems generally expressed in
34:, depicting Samson (right of centre) posing
2759:Dorvlo, Kofi. "Ewe borrowings into Logba."
2671:Die Sprach- und Erkenntnisformen der RĂ€tsel
2608:
2488:. The Saylor Foundation, 1982. p. 418.
1635:The corpus of traditional riddles from the
1460:Then long and slender, as brave as an earl;
1376:, one of the main surviving collections of
819:Two-legs sat on Three-legs and ate One-leg.
804:Zweibein sass auf Dreibein und ass Einbein.
751:. This Estonian example shows the pattern:
479:
4772:
4758:
4507:Archer Taylor, "American Indian Riddles",
4486:J. Jetté, "Riddles of the Ten'a Indians",
4465:Archer Taylor, "American Indian Riddles",
4355:Archer Taylor, "American Indian Riddles",
4190:
4119:, 80, no. 315 (JanuaryâMarch 1967), 81-88
4044:, 1.1 (Jan. 1942), pp. 65â82 (pp. 79â81).
3610:German Literature of the Early Middle Ages
3481:"Aristotle's Rhetoric Book III, Chapter 2"
3225:. International Institute of Tamil Studies
3128:
2517:
2190:, one of the hero's best known enemies is
1458:First I was small, and round like a pearl;
903:
405:
391:
2797:
2795:
2724:(Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2017).
2066:In ancient, medieval, and folk literature
1940:around 1639 as part of a healing ritual.
1462:Since, like an hermit, I lived in a cell,
1285:Demandes joyeuses en maniere de quolibets
4598:Lyndon Harries, "The Riddle in Africa",
4228:Lyndon Harries, "The Riddle in Africa",
4173:"Riddles of death: The structure of the
4161:Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press.
3739:, ed. by A. F. Butsch (StraĂburg, 1876).
3561:Doris Clark, "Tarsiana's Riddles in the
3423:Frederick G. Naerebout and Kim Beerden,
3406:Frederick G. Naerebout and Kim Beerden,
3335:(Leiden: Leiden University Press, 2010).
3024:Journal of the American Oriental Society
1932:in the sixteenth century, in the famous
1861:Riddle-riddle, not a king, nor a priest,
1750:), developed as a teaching technique in
1314:
937:
622:
618:
437:to be solved. Riddles are of two types:
25:
4681:
3964:Bulletin of the Board of Celtic Studies
3220:
2092:
1850:Bugtong-bugtong, Hindi hari, hindi pari
1817:version is the way they start with the
1360:, following the seminal composition of
1231:Literary riddles were also composed in
5130:
4091:, 1.1 (Jan. 1942), pp. 65â82 (p. 77).
3890:
3573:, 36(2) (1982), 209â21 (p. 216 n. 22).
3214:
2862:, 18.4 (April 1903), 97â106 (p. 102).
2792:
2446:(The Hague: Mouton, 1975), pp. 95â102.
2314:
1968:
1323:Riddles survive only fragmentarily in
4753:
4715:â Collection of funny riddles online.
4669:(New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013).
4170:
4015:
4013:
2761:International Journal of Bilingualism
2083:AarneâThompson classification systems
1992:, Part 2, Song 30, verses 6233â6838.
1339:: almost all occur in one section of
1272:The perhaps eighth- or ninth-century
4733:â An active listing of riddle links.
4641:Riddling Tales from Around the World
3203:Alan Dundes and Ved Prakash Vatuk, '
2297:
2295:
1842:
1795:. It is traditionally used during a
1473:of twentieth-century poets, such as
1452:Riddles of Heraclitus and Democritus
1406:
1242:
847:
796:
774:It goes in the morning on four feet,
753:
681:
30:Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn's 1638
2303:English Riddles from Oral Tradition
2171:The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass
2165:The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands
2072:Riddle-tales (ancient and medieval)
2041:. A key source for this culture is
1555:rather than literary compositions.
1003:; riddles also appear elsewhere in
810:dass Vierbein Einbein fallen liess.
790:Two-legs, three-legs, and four-legs
13:
4602:, 84 (1971), 377â93 (pp. 387â88);
4010:
3636:Das deutsche RĂ€tsel im Mittelalter
3597:Das deutsche RĂ€tsel im Mittelalter
2644:, 89 (1976), 127â37 (pp. 135â37);
2014:as well as in popular literature.
1995:
1799:together with other games such as
1782:
1070:(1253â1325), which are written in
825:so that Four-legs let One-leg go.
14:
5149:
4702:Riddleness - Riddles With Answers
4675:
4400:"Adivinanzas recogidas en MĂ©xico"
3365:, New Series, 36 (1945), 141â46,
3320:Encyclopedia of Arabic Literature
3318:G. J. H. van Gelder, "lughz", in
2920:The Saga of King Heidrek the Wise
2292:
1154:and in Persian epics such as the
1049:, which for example contains the
666:
4659:
4646:
4634:
4621:
4600:The Journal of American Folklore
4592:
4579:
4566:
4543:
4530:The Journal of American Folklore
4522:
4509:The Journal of American Folklore
4501:
4480:
4467:The Journal of American Folklore
4459:
4438:
4404:The Journal of American Folklore
4391:
4370:
4357:The Journal of American Folklore
4349:
4320:
4317:Makerere University: PhD thesis.
4307:
4279:
4251:
4230:The Journal of American Folklore
4222:
4201:The Journal of American Folklore
4164:
4151:
4130:
4117:The Journal of American Folklore
4110:The Nonrational Riddle: The Zen
3712:10.5406/jenglgermphil.112.2.0194
3704:10.5406/jenglgermphil.112.2.0194
3667:, 77 (2005), 1â30, at pp. 9â10.
3171:The Journal of American Folklore
3097:The Journal of American Folklore
2774:The Journal of American Folklore
2642:The Journal of American Folklore
2567:The Journal of American Folklore
2457:The Journal of American Folklore
2392:Oxford English Dictionary Online
2355:The Journal of American Folklore
2321:The Journal of American Folklore
2120:. Rather like in the Old Norse
2002:The Riddle Game is a formalized
742:
652:has also been documented in the
493:shares its origin with the word
56:
4289:(Palgrave Macmillan US, 2015),
4102:
4081:
4068:
4055:
4034:
3998:
3969:
3936:
3923:
3884:
3871:
3858:
3837:
3824:
3806:
3793:
3780:
3775:The Literary Riddle before 1600
3767:
3742:
3730:
3717:
3677:
3654:
3641:
3628:
3615:
3602:
3589:
3576:
3555:
3542:
3529:
3498:
3473:
3460:
3447:
3434:
3417:
3384:
3359:The Literary Riddle before 1600
3351:
3346:The Literary Riddle before 1600
3338:
3325:
3312:
3307:The Literary Riddle before 1600
3299:
3237:
3197:
3162:
3149:
3088:
3079:The Literary Riddle before 1600
3071:
3058:
3053:The Literary Riddle before 1600
3045:
3016:
3003:
2988:
2975:
2966:The Literary Riddle before 1600
2958:
2939:
2934:Vergleichende RĂ€tselforschungen
2926:
2912:
2907:Vergleichende RĂ€tselforschungen
2899:
2894:Vergleichende RĂ€tselforschungen
2886:
2881:Vergleichende RĂ€tselforschungen
2873:
2852:
2847:Vergleichende RĂ€tselforschungen
2839:
2824:
2787:Vergleichende RĂ€tselforschungen
2779:
2766:
2753:
2740:
2727:
2714:
2701:
2692:
2663:
2634:
2621:
2602:
2559:
2546:
2533:
2528:Vergleichende RĂ€tselforschungen
2504:
2459:Vol. 73, No. 289: pp. 225â235.
2028:
1976:One form of riddle features in
1913:
1694:(ć»), which both mean "hidden".
644:by speakers of the neighboring
5084:Motif-Index of Folk-Literature
4551:Journal of Latin American Lore
4313:Wambi Cornelius Gulere. 2012.
4203:, 89 (1976), 127â37 (p. 128);
2776:Vol. 65, No. 257, pp. 265-266.
2554:Unriddling the Exteter Riddles
2491:
2478:
2449:
2397:
2380:
2357:, 89 (1976), 127â37 (p. 131);
2347:
2308:
1746:
1529:Captain Wedderburn's Courtship
1435:There came a maiden speechless
1034:'s seventh- or eighth-century
721:
539:
1:
4572:R.FernĂĄndez Manzano y otros:
4490:, 8 (1913), 181â201, 630â51.
4138:California Folklore Quarterly
4089:California Folklore Quarterly
4042:California Folklore Quarterly
3952:A Collection of Irish Riddles
3948:A Collection of Welsh Riddles
3790:(New York: Peter Lang, 2008).
3762:10.1080/01611194.2016.1236628
3748:Dominik Landwehr, "Review of
3221:Shanthi, G. (December 1993).
2585:; Annikki Kaivola-BregenhĂžj,
2286:
1610:The Colloquy of the Two Sages
1431:There came a bird featherless
963:
920:Perched upon the castle wall;
704:In front of him (he) led oxen
4380:, 48.3 (July 1989), 256â60.
4326:Grivas Muchineripi Kayange,
3993:Arvoitukset: Finnish Riddles
3977:Arvoitukset: Finnish Riddles
3292:Joseph Jacobs, "Riddle", in
2805:, 7.4 (Winter 1990), 40â52;
2750:(Dublin: Four Courts, 2018).
2442:. Reprinted in Alan Dundes,
2424:Journal of American Folklore
1996:
1658:
1439:From off the tree leafless.
1437:And ate the bird featherless
1416:saĂ auf dem Baume blattlos,
843:Four Hang; Two Point the Way
837:Four Hang; Two Point the Way
604:being relatively neglected.
484:
476:ultimately to affirm them".
7:
4444:Annikki Kaivola-BregenhĂžj,
3363:The Jewish Quarterly Review
3344:See further Archer Taylor,
3134:Annikki Kaivola-BregenhĂžj,
3068:(Haarlem, 1940), pp. 154ff.
2512:Analytic Essays in Folklore
2444:Analytic Essays in Folklore
2315:Lieber, Michael D. (1976).
2199:
1983:("counterpoint payada"), a
1420:und fraĂ den Vogel federlos
1362:one hundred and one riddles
1301:The Germanic-speaking world
934:Riddle-traditions by region
922:Up came Lord John landless,
583:
10:
5154:
5078:AarneâThompsonâUther Index
5073:Morphology (folkloristics)
4713:Funny Riddles with Answers
4589:XL:87-88, (1974): 337-352.
4287:Orature and YorĂčbĂĄ Riddles
4029:10.1163/15685322-9913p0002
3830:Andrew Welsh, "Riddle" in
3582:Andrew Welsh, "Riddle" in
3548:Andrew Welsh, "Riddle" in
2069:
1919:Native American traditions
1667:
1628:
1418:da kam die Jungfer mundlos
1414:Es kam ein Vogel federlos,
1392:) or a reed-pen or -pipe (
1304:
1203:
1089:
1086:Hebrew, Arabic and Persian
967:
950:
706:White fields (he) ploughed
467:(originally writing about
18:
5060:
5024:
4971:
4901:
4846:
4788:
4667:The Riddles of the Hobbit
4344:10.1007/978-3-030-01962-4
4261:, 2 (1967), pp. 379â391.
3523:10.1017/S0263675100004300
2970:BeitrÀge zur Assyriologie
2707:Mercedes Salvador-Bello,
2687:10.1007/978-3-476-04165-4
2541:A Bibliography of Riddles
2486:Oral Literature in Africa
2426:, 76(300) (1963), 111â18
1893:
1863:but dresses for a feast.
1737:
1625:The Finnic-speaking world
1583:The Celtic-speaking world
1433:sat on the trees leafless
1342:Hervarar saga ok HeiĂ°reks
1194:
710:A black seed (he) sowed.
497:, both stemming from the
4574:El trovo de la Alpujarra
3891:Stokes, Whitley (1904).
3509:and Byzantine Riddles".
2552:E.g. Patrick J. Murphy,
2050:Finnish-language riddles
1961:in Central America; and
1831:This is an example of a
1809:; later generations use
1663:
1525:King John and the Bishop
1517:Riddles Wisely Expounded
1199:
1160:. Meanwhile, in Hebrew,
865:ok jafnan heldr saurugr.
708:A white plough (he) held
489:The modern English word
480:Definitions and research
4694:EncyclopĂŠdia Britannica
4587:Revista Iberoamericana,
3942:Patrick Sims-Williams,
3877:Patrick Sims-Williams,
3756:, 41(1) (2017), 92â96.
3723:Frauke Rademann-Veith,
3698:, 112 (2013), 194â216,
3390:E.g. Charles T. Scott,
3244:Dieter B. Kapp (1994).
1886:, Indonesia, among the
1647:), related to the verb
1422:von dem Baume blattlos.
1402:Strassburger RĂ€tselbuch
1116:'s wisdom), and in the
1068:riddles of Amir Khusrow
910:featherless bird-riddle
904:Featherless bird-riddle
854:
21:Riddle (disambiguation)
3801:The Riddle in the Poem
3250:Asian Folklore Studies
3211:, 33.1 (1974), 85-153.
3209:Asian Folklore Studies
3121:citing Durga Bhagwat,
3064:See also J. Huizinga,
2221:Oedipus and the Sphinx
2063:
1947:
1859:
1852:ang suot ay sari-sari.
1849:
1846:
1429:
1413:
1410:
1358:early medieval England
1329:Monastery of St Gallen
1320:
1311:Riddles (Scandinavian)
943:
916:White bird featherless
884:Two ward the dogs off,
882:Two point the way out,
876:
851:
817:
803:
800:
772:
760:
757:
702:
688:
685:
671:The basic form of the
636:
38:
4553:, 3:1 (1977), 19â49.
4295:10.1057/9781137502636
4232:, 84 (1971), 377â93;
4108:Charles G. Zug III, '
3786:Gregg A. Hecimovich,
2860:Modern Language Notes
2763:18.4 (2014): 428-446.
2569:, 89 (1976), 166â88;
2231:Riddles (Anglo-Saxon)
2211:Missing dollar riddle
2058:
1942:
1930:Bernardino de SahagĂșn
1928:riddles collected by
1637:Finnic-speaking world
1615:Imthecht na Tromdaime
1394:Exeter Book Riddle 60
1390:Exeter Book Riddle 27
1382:Exeter Book Riddle 35
1318:
941:
776:at lunch-time on two,
627:Tree of the year â a
626:
619:International riddles
463:In the assessment of
32:The Wedding of Samson
29:
4652:Christine Goldberg,
4285:AkĂntĂșndĂ© AkĂnyáșčmĂ,
4171:Quick, Phil (2007).
4157:Hart, Donn V. 1964.
3929:Christine Goldberg,
3864:Christine Goldberg,
3665:Scandinavian Studies
3621:Jeffrey Scott Love,
3394:(Bloomington, 1965).
3331:A. A. Seyed-Gohrab,
3155:Annemarie Schimmel,
3125:(Bombay, 1965), 5-9.
3085:, 39 (1885), 99â100.
2981:A. A. Seyeb-Gohrab,
2972:, 2 (1894), 274â305.
2803:South Central Review
2627:A. A. Seyed-Gohrab,
2148:Patricia A. McKillip
2137:'s fantasy sequence
2133:, the third book of
2093:In modern literature
1805:or the more popular
1261:Anglo-Saxon riddlers
1222:Constantine Cephalas
1019:), and the whole is
970:Riddles (South Asia)
924:Took it up handless,
778:at evening on three
761:Hommikul kÀib nelja,
749:riddle of the Sphinx
695:negro semen seminaba
693:albo versorio teneba
650:Riddle of the Sphinx
19:For other uses, see
4707:Puzzles And Riddles
4186:. pp. 203â212.
4023:, 99 (2013), 53â87
3966:, 5 (1930), 138â40.
3855:, 5 (1986), 74-106.
3511:Anglo-Saxon England
1969:Colonial traditions
1951:Alaskan Athabaskans
1901:Makerere University
1533:Proud Lady Margaret
1531:" (Child 46), and "
1498:Ralph Waldo Emerson
1345:, in which the god
1307:Anglo-Saxon riddles
1280:Adevineaux amoureux
1074:, in verse, in the
1011:), the second dog (
918:Flew from Paradise,
861:tveir hundum varĂ°a,
691:alba pratalia araba
592:in 1918â20, and by
465:Elli KöngÀs-Maranda
367:Nikoli puzzle types
44:Part of a series on
4938:Luminous gemstones
4833:Personal narrative
3820:. 11 October 2022.
2669:Claudia Schittek,
2140:The Dark is Rising
2061:participate again.
1953:(Ten'a) people in
1882:Further south, in
1491:Henrikas Radauskas
1333:Middle High German
1321:
1178:Immanuel the Roman
1015:), the third sun (
944:
892:O prince Heidrek!
890:This riddle ponder
888:Dangles behind it.
863:einn eptir drallar
765:Ôhtul kolme jalaga
637:
372:Puzzle video games
357:Impossible puzzles
248:Puzzle video games
39:
5125:
5124:
4336:978-3-030-01961-7
4303:978-1-349-69958-2
3897:The Celtic Review
3799:ĆœivilÄ Gimbutas,
3571:Romance Philology
2679:978-3-476-45007-4
2261:Riddles (Persian)
2241:Riddles (Chinese)
2152:The Riddle-Master
2033:It seems that in
1880:
1879:
1670:Riddles (Chinese)
1495:Transcendentalist
1445:
1444:
1266:Libro de Apolonio
1243:Latin and romance
1162:Dunash ben Labrat
1096:Riddles (Persian)
898:
897:
880:Four are walking,
878:Four are hanging,
867:HeiĂ°rekr konungr,
831:
830:
784:
783:
716:
715:
554:Robert A. Georges
415:
414:
271:
270:
5145:
5068:Folklore studies
4783:genres and types
4774:
4767:
4760:
4751:
4750:
4698:
4690:
4670:
4663:
4657:
4650:
4644:
4638:
4632:
4625:
4619:
4596:
4590:
4583:
4577:
4570:
4564:
4562:
4547:
4541:
4526:
4520:
4505:
4499:
4484:
4478:
4463:
4457:
4442:
4436:
4435:
4410:(122): 537â543.
4395:
4389:
4378:Western Folklore
4374:
4368:
4353:
4347:
4324:
4318:
4311:
4305:
4283:
4277:
4255:
4249:
4226:
4220:
4197:
4188:
4187:
4181:
4168:
4162:
4155:
4149:
4134:
4128:
4106:
4100:
4085:
4079:
4072:
4066:
4059:
4053:
4038:
4032:
4017:
4008:
4002:
3996:
3989:
3980:
3973:
3967:
3961:
3957:
3940:
3934:
3927:
3921:
3920:
3909:10.2307/30069786
3888:
3882:
3875:
3869:
3862:
3856:
3841:
3835:
3828:
3822:
3821:
3818:www.bartleby.com
3810:
3804:
3797:
3791:
3784:
3778:
3771:
3765:
3746:
3740:
3734:
3728:
3721:
3715:
3693:
3681:
3675:
3658:
3652:
3645:
3639:
3632:
3626:
3619:
3613:
3606:
3600:
3593:
3587:
3580:
3574:
3559:
3553:
3546:
3540:
3533:
3527:
3526:
3502:
3496:
3495:
3493:
3492:
3483:. Archived from
3477:
3471:
3464:
3458:
3451:
3445:
3438:
3432:
3426:
3421:
3415:
3409:
3404:
3395:
3388:
3382:
3355:
3349:
3342:
3336:
3329:
3323:
3316:
3310:
3303:
3297:
3290:
3281:
3280:
3278:
3276:
3241:
3235:
3234:
3232:
3230:
3218:
3212:
3201:
3195:
3194:
3177:(324): 142â54 .
3166:
3160:
3153:
3147:
3132:
3126:
3120:
3103:(324): 142â54 .
3092:
3086:
3075:
3069:
3062:
3056:
3049:
3043:
3020:
3014:
3013:(1875), 457â515.
3007:
3001:
2992:
2986:
2979:
2973:
2962:
2956:
2943:
2937:
2930:
2924:
2916:
2910:
2903:
2897:
2890:
2884:
2877:
2871:
2856:
2850:
2843:
2837:
2828:
2822:
2799:
2790:
2783:
2777:
2770:
2764:
2757:
2751:
2744:
2738:
2731:
2725:
2718:
2712:
2705:
2699:
2696:
2690:
2667:
2661:
2638:
2632:
2625:
2619:
2618:
2606:
2600:
2563:
2557:
2550:
2544:
2537:
2531:
2524:
2515:
2508:
2502:
2495:
2489:
2484:Finnegan, Ruth.
2482:
2476:
2453:
2447:
2420:
2411:
2401:
2395:
2384:
2378:
2351:
2345:
2344:
2327:(352): 255â265.
2312:
2306:
2301:Taylor, Archer,
2299:
2256:Riddles (Hebrew)
2246:Riddles (Finnic)
2236:Riddles (Arabic)
2216:Newspaper riddle
2100:J. R. R. Tolkien
1998:
1955:British Columbia
1934:Florentine codex
1854:
1843:
1748:
1739:
1724:Lantern Festival
1631:Riddles (Finnic)
1594:Book of Taliesin
1541:double entendres
1521:The Elfin Knight
1424:
1407:
1294:Demaundes Joyous
1287:, the basis for
1182:Israel Onceneyra
1100:Riddles (Hebrew)
1092:Riddles (Arabic)
997:pravargya ritual
871:
848:
812:
797:
767:
763:lÔuna-ajal kahe,
754:
697:
682:
654:Marshall Islands
407:
400:
393:
362:Maze video games
351:
311:Packing problems
306:Optical illusion
284:
73:
72:
69:
60:
41:
40:
5153:
5152:
5148:
5147:
5146:
5144:
5143:
5142:
5128:
5127:
5126:
5121:
5056:
5020:
4996:Folk instrument
4967:
4948:Old wives' tale
4933:Legend tripping
4897:
4842:
4784:
4778:
4747:
4688:"Riddles"
4678:
4673:
4664:
4660:
4651:
4647:
4639:
4635:
4626:
4622:
4597:
4593:
4584:
4580:
4571:
4567:
4558:
4548:
4544:
4527:
4523:
4506:
4502:
4485:
4481:
4464:
4460:
4454:10.21435/sff.10
4443:
4439:
4396:
4392:
4375:
4371:
4354:
4350:
4325:
4321:
4312:
4308:
4284:
4280:
4267:10.2307/2798727
4256:
4252:
4227:
4223:
4198:
4191:
4179:
4169:
4165:
4156:
4152:
4135:
4131:
4107:
4103:
4086:
4082:
4073:
4069:
4060:
4056:
4039:
4035:
4018:
4011:
4003:
3999:
3990:
3983:
3974:
3970:
3959:
3955:
3941:
3937:
3928:
3924:
3893:"Irish Riddles"
3889:
3885:
3876:
3872:
3863:
3859:
3842:
3838:
3829:
3825:
3812:
3811:
3807:
3798:
3794:
3785:
3781:
3773:Archer Taylor,
3772:
3768:
3747:
3743:
3735:
3731:
3722:
3718:
3691:
3682:
3678:
3659:
3655:
3646:
3642:
3634:Tomas Tomasek,
3633:
3629:
3620:
3616:
3607:
3603:
3595:Tomas Tomasek,
3594:
3590:
3581:
3577:
3560:
3556:
3547:
3543:
3534:
3530:
3503:
3499:
3490:
3488:
3479:
3478:
3474:
3465:
3461:
3452:
3448:
3439:
3435:
3424:
3422:
3418:
3407:
3405:
3398:
3389:
3385:
3371:10.2307/1452496
3357:Archer Taylor,
3356:
3352:
3343:
3339:
3330:
3326:
3317:
3313:
3305:Archer Taylor,
3304:
3300:
3291:
3284:
3274:
3272:
3262:10.2307/1178562
3242:
3238:
3228:
3226:
3223:"Tamil riddles"
3219:
3215:
3202:
3198:
3167:
3163:
3154:
3150:
3144:10.21435/sff.10
3133:
3129:
3093:
3089:
3077:Archer Taylor,
3076:
3072:
3063:
3059:
3051:Archer Taylor,
3050:
3046:
3021:
3017:
3008:
3004:
2993:
2989:
2980:
2976:
2964:Archer Taylor,
2963:
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