Riddle-tales are traditional stories featuring riddle-contests. They frequently provide the context for the preservation of ancient riddles for posterity...
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"The Riddle" (German: Das Rätsel) is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm in Grimm's Fairy Tales in 1819 (KHM 22). It is of Aarne-Thompson...
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"A Riddling Tale" is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm in Grimm's Fairy Tales. It is Aarne-Thompson type 407, the girl as a flower. The...
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A riddle is a statement, question, or phrase having a double or veiled meaning, put forth as a puzzle to be solved. Riddles are of two types: enigmas...
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A riddle joke, joke riddle, pseudo-joke or conundrum is a riddle that does not expect the asked person to know the answer, but rather constitutes a set-up...
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Aarne–Thompson–Uther Index (redirect from Aarne-Thompson tale-type)
ATU types 705–712 The Three Golden Children, analysis of type ATU 707 Riddle-tale, an analysis of types 851, 851A and 927 ATU 565 "the magic mill": Why...
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Schlaraffenland): KHM 158 The Ditmarsch Tale of Lies (Das dietmarsische Lügenmärchen): KHM 159 A Riddling Tale (Rätselmärchen): KHM 160 Snow-White and...
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Lord Voldemort (redirect from Tom Riddle)
mentioned. Voldemort, an anagrammatic sobriquet for his birth name Tom Marvolo Riddle, is the archenemy of Harry Potter, who according to a prophecy has "the...
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Sphinx (redirect from Sphinx' riddle)
challenges those who encounter her to answer a riddle, and kills and eats them when they fail to solve the riddle. This deadly version of a sphinx appears in...
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A fairy tale (alternative names include fairytale, fairy story, household tale, magic tale, or wonder tale) is a short story that belongs to the folklore...
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The Devil and his Grandmother (category Riddles)
version of this tale also appears in A Book of Dragons by Ruth Manning-Sanders. It is Aarne-Thompson-Uther Index type 821, the devil's riddle. Three soldiers...
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Hey Riddle Riddle is a comedy podcast about puzzles and riddles. The hosts are Erin Keif, John Patrick Coan, and Adal Rifai. The show is produced by Headgum...
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The neck riddle is a riddle where the riddler (typically a hero in a folk tale) gains something with the help of an unsolvable riddle. Verlyn Flieger (citing...
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Fairy tales are stories that range from those in folklore to more modern stories defined as literary fairy tales. Despite subtle differences in the categorizing...
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The Ridere of Riddles is a Scottish fairy tale collected by John Francis Campbell in Popular Tales of the West Highlands, listing as his informant John...
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Puzzle (redirect from Zest Online Riddle)
were first documented are riddles. In Europe, Greek mythology produced riddles like the riddle of the Sphinx. Many riddles were produced during the Middle...
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learning and author of Riddle questions concept. Aven (2003, 2005) Stories From Other Side (2004) Riddle Tales (2006) Riddle Tales II (2006) The Fifth Butterfly...
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What the Rose did to the Cypress (category Riddles)
broadcaster Doordarshan on DD National in the early 2000s. Turandot Riddle tales Lang, Andrew. The Brown Fairy Book. London; New York: Longmans, Greenpp...
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The Riddle (novel), a 2004 fantasy book of the Pellinor series by Alison Croggon The Riddle (fairy tale), one of Grimm's Fairy Tales "The Riddle", a 1923...
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"The Twins" (Albanian: Binoshët; Italian: I Gemelli) is an Albanian folk tale firstly recorded by Arbëreshë folklorist Giuseppe Schirò in Piana degli Albanesi...
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forms of egankogi (parable), gangba (warning), egancin (idiom), ecingi (riddle/tales) and eganmagan (proverb).[clarification needed] Eganmagan (proverb, plural...
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short story "The Tell-Tale Heart" and features excerpts from the story being read. Poe was given credit for the track's lyrics. Riddle Box was released in...
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What Is the Fastest Thing in the World? (category Riddles)
answers. This type of tale is the commonest European tale dealing with witty exchanges. In ballad form, the clever answers to the riddles, and the winning...
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The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin is a children's book written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter and first published by Frederick Warne & Co. in August 1903...
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The Devil with the Three Golden Hairs (category Riddles)
Hairs" (German: Der Teufel mit den drei goldenen Haaren) is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm (KHM 29). It falls under Aarne–Thompson classification...
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La Fada Morgana (English: Fairy Morgana) is a Catalan fairy tale or rondalla, first collected by Majorcan priest and author Antoni Maria Alcover. It is...
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The Riddles of Amir Khusrow were developed during the royal courts of more than seven rulers of the Delhi Sultanate. During this time, Khusrow wrote not...
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for DC's Secret Origins series in 1989: a Poison Ivy tale drawn by Mark Buckingham and a Riddler story illustrated by Bernie Mireault and Matt Wagner...
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Jesse Leroy Brown. Kirkus Reviews. November 1, 1998. A mediocre, cliché-riddled tale of America's first Black naval aviator "The Flight of Jesse Leroy Brown"...
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One Thousand and One Nights (redirect from The Tale of Attaf)
narrated the tales by his wife Scheherazade, with one tale told over each night of storytelling. The stories proceed from this original tale; some are framed...
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