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)

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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).

Tests. · Tests of cleverness. · Riddles. · Means of solving riddles. · view the constellation · filed as H572

Scholars’ trail — 2references

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

general BP II 372
general Chauvin VI 39 No. 207 n. 4.

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Filed under Means of solving riddles.

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Counterquestions. Riddles answered by a question that reduces the riddle to an absurdity Answer to riddle found by trickery Riddles solved with aid of propounder's wife. (Cf. G530.2, H335.0.1, H974.)Accidental discovery of answer to riddle

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