Riddle: tree with leaves white on one side and black on other. Year made up of nights and days — Mythoi

Motif

Riddle: tree with leaves white on one side and black on other. Year made up of nights and days.

Tests. · Tests of cleverness. · Riddles. · Metaphorical riddles. · view the constellation · filed as H721.2

Cited in the index

general Chauvin V 192 No. 113.

Within the index

Filed under Riddle of the year.

Filed beside it

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

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