Riddle: what is softer than swan down? (Cf. H652.1.)

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Riddle: what is softer than swan down? (Cf. H652.1.)

Tests. · Tests of cleverness. · Riddles. · Riddles of comparison. · view the constellation · filed as H672

Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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 BP III 16.

Within the index

Filed under Riddles of comparison.

Filed beside it

Riddle: what is swifter than a bird, the wind or lightning? The eye. (Cf. H632.2.)Riddle: what is dearer than gold? Mother love. (Cf. H651.2.)Riddle: what is whiter than a swan? An angel Riddle: what is sweeter than honey? (Cf. H633.)Riddle: what is harder than stone? (Cf. H637.)Who is greater than God? Man's purpose

Travels with

What is softest? The hand. (In order to lie soft one places his hand between the head and the pillow.)

Carried in tale types

The Devil's Riddle · ATU 8126 recorded variants

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