Riddles. Only such riddles are treated in this work as appear in tales, ballads, myths, or the like.
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- Jewish *Neuman. A classification of riddles will be found in Lehmann-Nitsche Zs. f. Vksk. XXIV 240ff. and in Von Sydow and Christiansen Iriska gåtor (Folkminnen och Folktankar, II 65–80, VI 120–48).
- general **J. B. Friedreich Geschichte des Räthsels (Dresden, 1860)
- general **Taylor English Riddles in Oral Tradition (Berkeley, 1951), A Bibliography of Riddles (FFC CXXVI)
- general R. Petsch Das deutsche Volksrätsel (Strassburg, 1917)
- general *Anderson FFC XLII 3ff.
- general *Chauvin VI 42 No. 207
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