The constellation
H878 Riddle: what is it that one buys who does not want it or use it? (Coffin.)
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The same sky, in words
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- Other riddles · H840 entry
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- Riddle: worth of the animal · H841 entry
- Riddle: animal qualities · H842 entry
- Riddle: what are the two fixed, the two moving, the two joined, the two separated by jealousy, the two eternal enemies? (Heaven and earth; sun and moon; night and day; soul and body; life and death.) · H851 entry
- What two trees do not fade until they wither? (Yew and holly.) · H852 entry
- What goodness did man find on earth that God did not find? (An overlord.) · H853 entry
- Riddle: what are the two combatants without hands or feet or words? (The bull and the buffalo.) · H861 entry
- Riddle: what is that which is neither man nor jinn nor beast nor bird? (Louse and ant.) · H862 entry
- Riddle: what do crows do when they are five years old? (They start their sixth year.) (Cf. H826.) · H865 entry
- Riddle: what six things are not worth doing? (Sowing salt, mowing pebbles, drinking from an empty jug, making signs to a blind man, wooing at mealtime, playing a harp in a mill.) · H871 entry
- Riddle: what is the difference between a poor man and a rich? (Riches.) · H875 entry