Riddle: tree with twelve branches, each with thirty leaves, black and white. Year, month, days and nights — Mythoi

Motif

Riddle: tree with twelve branches, each with thirty leaves, black and white. Year, month, days and nights.

Tests. · Tests of cleverness. · Riddles. · Metaphorical riddles. · view the constellation · filed as H721.1

Cited in the index

general *Chauvin V 195 No. 114
general *BP II 355 n. 1.

Within the index

Filed under Riddle of the year.

Filed beside it

Riddle: tree with leaves white on one side and black on other. Year made up of nights and days Riddle: twelve cypresses with thirty boughs each. Years and months Riddle: palace consisting of 8760 stones; twelve trees, thirty branches, each with black and white cluster of grapes. Year, months, days, hours

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Riddle of the day and night. (Cf. H721.1, H721.2, H721.4.)

Carried in tale types

The Princess who Cannot Solve the Riddle · ATU 851 4 recorded variants

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