• 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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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