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H501. Test of wisdom. Irish myth: Cross; Jewish: *Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys, Penzer VI 74 n.
H502.1. Test of religious learning. Irish myth: Cross; Jewish: *Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys.
H530 – H899. RIDDLES
H530. Riddles. Only such riddles are treated in this work as appear in tales, ballads, myths, or the like. **J. B. Friedreich Geschichte des Räthsels (Dresden, 1860); **Taylor English Riddles in Oral Tradition (Berkeley, 1951), A Bibliography of Riddles (FFC CXXVI); R. Petsch Das deutsche Volksrätsel (Strassburg, 1917); *Anderson FFC XLII 3ff.; *Chauvin VI 42 No. 207; Jewish: *Neuman. A classification of riddles will be found in Lehmann-Nitsche Zs. f. Vksk. XXIV 240ff. and in Von Sydow and Christiansen Iriska gåtor (Folkminnen och Folktankar, II 65 – 80, VI 120 – 48).
H540.2.1. Queen of Sheba propounds riddles to Solomon. *Penzer VI 74; FL I 349ff.; Anderson FFC XLII 237 n. 2; Hertz Gesammelte Abhandlungen (1905) 412ff.; Jewish: bin Gorion Born Judas III 32, 297f., *Neuman; *Frazer Old Testament II 564.
H540.3.1. Riddles sent to Solomon by King Hiram. (Cf. H548.) Jewish: Neuman.
H540.5. Bridegroom propounds riddles at wedding feast. Jewish: Neuman.
H541.2.1. Fine for failure to solve riddle. Jewish: Neuman
H548.1. King and rabbi exchange riddles. Jewish: Neuman.
H561.3.1. King Solomon as master riddle-solver. (Cf. H540.2.1, H540.4.) Jewish: Neuman.
H561.5. King and clever minister. King propounds riddles and questions to his clever minister. **De Vries FFC LXXIII 365ff.; *Encyc. Rel. Ethics s.v. “Ahiqar”; *Marc Studien zur vgl. Littgesch. II 393f., III 52; **Meissner Das Märchen vom weisen Achikar (Leipzig, 1917); Jewish: *Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys.
H565.1. Happenings before feast give Samson clue for riddles. Jewish: Neuman.
H574. Riddles solved with aid of propounder’s wife. (Cf. G530.2, H335.0.1, H974.) Jewish: Neuman.
H580. Enigmatic statements. Apparently senseless remarks (or acts) interpreted figuratively prove wise. *Wesselski Märchen 197; **De Vries FFC LXXIII; Icelandic: Herrmann Saxo II 389, *Boberg; Spanish: Boggs FFC XC 122 No. 1358; Jewish: *Neuman; Arab: Azov 411f.; India: *Thompson-Balys; Batak: Voorhoeve 163 No. 169.
H599.5. governors and appoint new). Jewish: Neuman.
H599.6. Give coals orange color, let glimmer of gold appear like expanse of heaven, prepare two heads of darkness. (Request for chickens for breakfast.) Jewish: Neuman.
H601. Wise carving of the fowl. Clever person divides it symbolically: head to head of house, neck to wife, wings to daughters, legs to sons; keeps rest for himself. *Type 875; *BP II 360 n. 1; *Taylor JAFL XXXI 555; Köhler-Bolte II 645ff.; Scala Celi 37a No. 205; Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 58. – Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 1580*; Russian: Andrejev No. 1580*; Livonian: Loorits FFC LXVI No. 1533*; Italian Novella: *Rotunda; Jewish: *Neuman; Filipino: Fansler MAFLS XII 63, 253, 351.
H602.1. Symbolic meaning of numbers. Jewish: Neuman.
H602.2. Symbolic interpretation of letters. Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 7; Jewish: Neuman.
H602.3. Symbolic interpretation of names. Jewish: *Neuman.
H614. Explanation of enigmatic phenomenon. Jewish: Neuman.
H617. Symbolic interpretations of dreams. Jewish: Neuman.
H619. Other symbolic interpretations. Irish myth: Cross; Jewish: *Neuman.
H631.4. What is strongest? Woman. Italian Novella: Rotunda; Jewish: bin Gorion Born Judas I 23, 360, Neuman.
H631.5. What is strongest? Truth. Spanish Exempla: Keller; Italian Novella: Rotunda; Jewish: Neuman; Japanese: Ikeda.
H631.8. What is strongest? Wine. Jewish: *Neuman.
H631.9. What is strongest? The king. Jewish: *Neuman.
H681.1.1. How far is it from one end of the earth to the other? A day’s journey, since the sun makes it daily. *Type 922; Anderson FFC XLII 147. – Jewish: *Neuman.
H682.1. Riddle: how far is it from earth to heaven? *Type 922; BP III 231; Anderson FFC XLII 113; Jewish: *Neuman.
H682.3. How many exits from paradise? Moreno Esdras; Jewish: Neuman.
H720. Metaphorical riddles. Jewish: *Neuman.
H761.1. Riddle: two are better than three (two legs better than man with staff in old age). Jewish: *Neuman.
H765. From wooden spring iron bucket makes stones from which water flows. (Metal stick picks stone from eye. If you rub lids with it, tears come.) Jewish: bin Gorion Born Judas III 32, 297f., *Neuman.
H770. Riddles of explanation. Jewish: Neuman.
H795. Relationship riddles arising from unusual marriages of relatives. *Köhler-Bolte I 218; Hertz Abhandlungen 416; Jewish: *Neuman.
H810. Riddles based on the Bible or legend. Jewish: *Neuman.
H814. Riddle: who, having had father and mother, is not dead? (Elias.) Chauvin V 195 No. 114; Jewish: Neuman.
H821. Riddle: what was the walking tomb with the living tenant? (Jonah and the whale.) Chauvin V 194 No. 114; Jewish: *Neuman.
H822. Riddle: what is the land that has seen the sun only once? (The bottom of the Red Sea during the passage of the Israelites.) Chauvin V 194 No. 114; Jewish: *Neuman.
H822.1. What is the land that has seen the sun only once? (The land on which the waters were gathered after the creation.) Jewish: Neuman.
H828. What three not born of male and female ate and drank on earth? (Angels who visited Abraham.) Jewish: Neuman.
H831. Riddle: what house was full of dead? (Philistines in the building demolished by Samson.) Jewish: Neuman.
H832. What was not born, yet life was given to it? (The golden calf.) Jewish: Neuman.
H842.3. What animal has one voice living and seven voices dead? (Ibis, from whose carcass musical instruments are made.) Jewish: Neuman.
H885. Riddles about flax. Taylor English Riddles from Oral Tradition (Berkeley, California, 1951) 250; Jewish: *Neuman.
H886. Riddles about naphtha. Jewish: Neuman.
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