Riddle: why is the hair gray before the beard? (It is twenty years older.)

Motif

Riddle: why is the hair gray before the beard? (It is twenty years older.)

Tests. · Tests of cleverness. · Riddles. · Riddles of explanation. · view the constellation · filed as H771

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general *Wesselski Arlotto II 270 No. 222.

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Filed under Riddles of explanation.

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Riddle: why are there more days than nights? (The moon turns some nights into days.)Riddle: why are there more living than dead? (There are some of the dead of whom we still speak.)Riddle: why are there more women than men? (Some women make women [i.e., weaklings] of their husbands.)

Carried in tale types

Why Hair of Head is Gray before the Beard · ATU 921C1 recorded variant

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