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What two trees do not fade until they wither? (Yew and holly.)

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Riddle: worth of the animal Riddle: animal qualities 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 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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