Riddle: what is the most beloved? — Mythoi

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Riddle: what is the most beloved?

Tests. · Tests of cleverness. · Riddles. · Riddles of the superlative. · view the constellation · filed as H647

Cited in the index

general De Vries FFC LXXIII 94.

Within the index

Filed under Riddles of the superlative.

2 finer motifs beneath it

What is most beloved? Life What is most beloved? Health

Filed beside it

Riddle: what is the strongest? Riddle: what is the swiftest? Riddle: what is sweetest? Riddle: what is the sweetest song? Riddle: what is the sweetest sound? Riddle: what is the richest? Riddle: what is the hardest? Riddle: what is costliest? Riddle: what is most beautiful? Riddle: what is highest? Riddle: what is deepest? Riddle: what is longest? Riddle: what is the heaviest? Riddle: what is greenest? Riddle: what is best? Riddle: what is brightest?

Carried in tale types

The Clever Farmgirl [J1111 · ATU 875 702 recorded variants

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