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H803 Riddle: deaths from sleepiness, anger, and greed. Elephant sleeps before snake's hole. Snake bites elephant and kills it. Jackal eats hole in elephant and is caught inside. Snake can't get out of its hole
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- Riddle: a fish was my father; a man was my mother. (Man eats magic fish and becomes pregnant; a girl is taken from his knee.) · H791 entry
- Riddle of the unborn. I am unborn; my horse is unborn; I carry my mother on my hands. (A boy who has been taken from his dead mother's body digs up the body of his mother and makes gloves of her skin. He rides on a colt which has been taken from a dead mare's body.) · H792 entry
- Riddle: seven tongues in a head. (A horse's head in which a bird's nest is found with seven birds in it.) · H793 entry
- Relationship riddles arising from unusual marriages of relatives · H795 entry
- Riddle: what does God do? · H797 entry
- Riddle: one killed none and yet killed twelve. (Horse is poisoned; raven eats of him and dies; twelve robbers eat raven and die.) · H802 entry
- Riddle: from the eater came forth meat and from the strong sweetness. (Swarm of bees and honey in lion's carcass.) · H804 entry
- Riddle of the murdered lover. With what thinks, I drink; what sees, I carry; with what eats I walk. (Queen has cup made from skull of her murdered lover; ring with one of his eyes; she carries two of his teeth in her boots.) · H805 entry
- Riddle: drink this wine which a bird took to nest. (Stork took bunch of grapes to nest; boy makes wine from them.) · H806 entry
- Formerly I was daughter, now I am mother; I have a son who was the husband of my mother. (Girl has nursed her imprisoned father through a crack in the prison wall.) · H807 entry