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Riddle-tales are traditional stories featuring riddle-contests. They frequently provide the context for the preservation of ancient riddles for posterity, and as such have both been studied as a narrative form in their own right, and for the riddles they contain. [ 1 ]
A Riddling Tale is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm in Grimm's Fairy Tales. [1] It is Aarne-Thompson type 407, the girl as a flower. [2] The tale portion of it is subordinate to the riddle, and the tale is not widely found in the oral tradition. [3]
A riddle is a statement, question or phrase having a double or veiled meaning, put forth as a puzzle to be solved. Riddles are of two types: enigmas, which are problems generally expressed in metaphorical or allegorical language that require ingenuity and careful thinking for their solution, and conundra, which are questions relying for their effects on punning in either the question or the ...
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The riddle is: What was the meat, the silver spoon, and the wineglass for that meal. The soldiers give the correct answers: a dead sea-cat in the North Sea, a whale rib, and an old horse's hoof. No longer in the Devil's power, the soldiers live happily ever after thanks to the money-making whip.
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In Beatrix Potter's 1903 children's picture book Tale of Squirrel Nutkin the title character recites "Arthur o' Bower". [ 14 ] W. H. Auden , in a commentary on his poem "Winds", the first of the Bucolics , wrote that "Arthur o'Bower as a name for the wind is taken from a nursery riddle".
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