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- Dwarfs give riddles and questions to mortals. F451.5.15
- Girl married to devil escapes with answers to his riddles. G303.12.5.5
- 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
- Escape from devil by answering his riddles. H543
- Devil held off from person by answering his riddles. St. Andrew the Bishop, and the Devil. The Devil, in form of beautiful maiden visits a holy bishop. St. Andrew appears as a pilgrim, answers the questions through which the devil seeks to keep him at a distance and discomfits the devil. (Cf. B302.22.3.) H543.1
- Answers found in other world to riddles propounded on way. H544
- King and rabbi exchange riddles. H548.1
- Man wins wife by instructing her how to answer her mother's riddles. H551.1
- Woman gives self to solver of riddles. H551.2
- Man marries girl who guesses his riddles. H552
- Solvers of riddles. H561