The constellation
H583 Clever youth (maiden) answers king's inquiry in riddles. (Cf. H561.4.)
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- King: What do you see? Youth: One and a half men and a horse's head. (Himself, the legs of the king on horseback in the door, and the horse's head.) · H583.1 entry
- King: What is your father doing? Youth: He is in the vineyard and is doing good and bad. (He prunes vines and sometimes cuts good and sometimes lets bad ones stay.) · H583.2 entry
- King: What is your brother doing? Youth: He hunts; he throws away what he catches and what he does not catch he carries with him. (Hunts for lice on his body.) · H583.3 entry
- King: What is your mother doing? Youth: She does for another what the latter cannot do for her. (Lays out a corpse.) · H583.4 entry
- King: What is your sister doing? Youth: She is mourning last year's laughter. (Nurses child, the fruit of last year's love affair.) · H583.5 entry
- King: What are you doing? Youth: I boil those which come and go. (Beans which keep rising and falling in water.) · H583.6 entry
- King: Where shall I tie my horse? Maiden: Between summer and winter. (Between wagon and sleigh.) · H583.7 entry
- Maiden (to king): The house has neither eyes nor ears. (No child at window nor dog in yard to announce king's approach: he therefore finds her not dressed to receive him.) · H583.8 entry
- Maiden (to king): Shall I feed you with loss or gain. (A slaughtered hen or milk.) · H583.9 entry
- Girl to king: Should it (the flood) come I shall not come; should it not come, I shall come · H583.10 entry
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