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.)

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

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

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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 92126 recorded variants

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