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- Tabu: eating griddle cakes (in Garden of Eden). C229.3
- Tabu: solving sphinx's riddle: sphinx perishes. C822
- Cake made by rubbing flour on griddle. D1031.2.1
- Dwarfs give riddles and questions to mortals. F451.5.15
- Dwarf makes return of child dependent upon guessing of riddle. F451.5.15.2
- Witch travels over water in a sieve or a riddle. G241.4.3
- Girl married to devil escapes with answers to his riddles. G303.12.5.5
- Ogre gives riddle on pain of death. G681
- Bride test: cooking griddle cakes. H383.1.2
- Riddles proposed as tests of poetic ability. H509.4.2
- Riddles. Only such riddles are treated in this work as appear in tales, ballads, myths, or the like. H530
- Propounding of riddles. H540
- Supernatural creatures propound riddles. (See also H541.1.1, H543, G681.) H540.1
- Queen propounds riddles. H540.2
- Queen of Sheba propounds riddles to Solomon. H540.2.1
- King propounds riddles. H540.3
- Riddles sent to Solomon by King Hiram. (Cf. H548.) H540.3.1
- Saint as propounder of riddles. H540.4
- Bridegroom propounds riddles at wedding feast. H540.5
- Riddle propounded with penalty for failure. H541