Answer to riddle found by trickery

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Answer to riddle found by trickery.

Tests. · Tests of cleverness. · Riddles. · Means of solving riddles. · view the constellation · filed as H573

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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 *Type 621.

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Filed under Means of solving riddles.

3 finer motifs beneath it

Riddle solved with aid of hidden informant Problem of why certain person cannot sleep solved by trickery Riddle solved by listening to propounder talk in his sleep

Filed beside it

Counterquestions. Riddles answered by a question that reduces the riddle to an absurdity 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)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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