King: Are you alone at home? Youth: Not now; I see the half of two quadrupeds. (Two legs of the king and the forefeet of his horse.) — Mythoi

Motif

King: Are you alone at home? Youth: Not now; I see the half of two quadrupeds. (Two legs of the king and the forefeet of his horse.)

Tests. · Tests of cleverness. · Riddles. · Enigmatic statements. · view the constellation · filed as H583.1.1

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Literary Crystallization Faust: A Tragedy , First Part, Scene 21 (Walpurgis-Night)

Cited in the index

general *Köhler-Bolte I 84, 87.

Within the index

Filed under King: What do you see? Youth: One and a half men and a horse's head. (Himself, the legs of the king on horseback in the door, and the horse's head.)

Carried in tale types

The King and the Farmer's Son · ATU 921 26 recorded variants

ask the rhapsode about this motif · search the shelf for “quadrupeds” · wander