The constellation
H575 Accidental discovery of answer to riddle
A constellation is one motif’s neighborhood in the record — the story-shapes filed around it, the tale types that carry it, and the texts where it is witnessed, every line a receipted link. Click a motif to travel. Click a text to read it. The entry · wander
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● on the shelf
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The same sky, in words
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- Means of solving riddles · H570 entry
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- Counterquestions. Riddles answered by a question that reduces the riddle to an absurdity · H571 entry
- Reductio ad absurdum of riddle: stallions of Babylon. "Why is my mare restless when stallions of Babylon neigh?" Hero beats cat for having strangled a cock last night in Babylon (impossible distance away) · H572 entry
- Answer to riddle found by trickery · H573 entry
- Riddles solved with aid of propounder's wife. (Cf. G530.2, H335.0.1, H974.) · H574 entry