ATU 927
Out-riddling the Judge
Aarne–Thompson–Uther tale-type index · Religious Tales · The full type description is not served here; the number and name are the classification facts.
Motifs the recorded variants carry
- Riddle of the unborn. I am unborn; my horse is unborn; I carry my mother on my hands. (A boy who has been taken from his dead mother's body digs up the body of his mother and makes gloves of her skin. He rides on a colt which has been taken from a dead mare's body.) 4 variants
- Riddle: seven tongues in a head. (A horse's head in which a bird's nest is found with seven birds in it.) 4 variants
- Riddle: from the eater came forth meat and from the strong sweetness. (Swarm of bees and honey in lion's carcass.) 4 variants
- Riddle of the murdered lover. With what thinks, I drink; what sees, I carry; with what eats I walk. (Queen has cup made from skull of her murdered lover; ring with one of his eyes; she carries two of his teeth in her boots.) 4 variants
- Riddle: drink this wine which a bird took to nest. (Stork took bunch of grapes to nest; boy makes wine from them.) 4 variants
- Death sentence escaped by propounding riddle king (judge) cannot solve 2 variants
- Formerly I was daughter, now I am mother; I have a son who was the husband of my mother. (Girl has nursed her imprisoned father through a crack in the prison wall.) 2 variants
- Woman suckles imprisoned relative through prison wall. 2 variants
- Son frees father by bringing riddle the king cannot solve. (Cf. H542.) 2 variants