Accidental discovery of answer to riddle — Mythoi

Motif

Accidental discovery of answer to riddle.

Tests. · Tests of cleverness. · Riddles. · Means of solving riddles. · view the constellation · filed as H575

Filed across the traditions

India *Thompson-Balys.

Within the index

Filed under Means of solving riddles.

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) Answer to riddle found by trickery Riddles solved with aid of propounder's wife. (Cf. G530.2, H335.0.1, H974.)

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