Riddle: animal qualities.
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What animal which lives in sea-water will drown if taken out of it? (Gním Abraein.) What animal which lives in fire will burn if taken out of it? (Tegillus, now called salamander.) (Cf. B768.2.) What animal has one voice living and seven voices dead? (Ibis, from whose carcass musical instruments are made.)
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Riddle: worth of the animal Riddle: what are the two fixed, the two moving, the two joined, the two separated by jealousy, the two eternal enemies? (Heaven and earth; sun and moon; night and day; soul and body; life and death.) What two trees do not fade until they wither? (Yew and holly.) What goodness did man find on earth that God did not find? (An overlord.) Riddle: what are the two combatants without hands or feet or words? (The bull and the buffalo.) Riddle: what is that which is neither man nor jinn nor beast nor bird? (Louse and ant.) Riddle: what do crows do when they are five years old? (They start their sixth year.) (Cf. H826.) Riddle: what six things are not worth doing? (Sowing salt, mowing pebbles, drinking from an empty jug, making signs to a blind man, wooing at mealtime, playing a harp in a mill.) Riddle: what is the difference between a poor man and a rich? (Riches.) Riddle: what is it that one buys who does not want it or use it? (Coffin.) Riddles with "none" as answer Riddle: bottom and top of staff. Of the two ends which is the top and which the bottom? Riddle: where is the root of the floor? Below Riddles about flax Riddles about naphtha
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