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- King and clever youth. King asks questions; youth returns riddling answers. H561.4
- King and peasant vie in riddling questions and answers. H561.6
- King and peasant: the plucked fowl. The king gives riddling questions to a peasant, who always interprets them right. The king says that he will send the peasant a fowl which he shall pluck. The king gives the same questions to his courtiers, who cannot interpret them. They pay the peasant good money for the answers. Peasant tells king that he has plucked the fowl. H561.6.1
- Riddling answers betray theft or adultery H582
- Riddling answer betrays theft. H582.1
- Riddling answers betray adultery. H582.2
- Other riddling answers. H584
- Riddling remarks of traveling companion interpreted by girl (man) at end of journey. H586
- Man helps traveler and makes riddling remarks. Gives him food, shares his coat in rain, and carries him over stream. Reproaches him with traveling without mother, house, or bridge (nourishment, shelter, or horse). H586.1
- Husband discovers wife's adultery by riddling conversation. In this indirect manner the wife confesses and promises reform. K1557