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Yes, there are rewards for answering correctly. I am not telling them. You must answer in PM. ^___^ First ones to each riddle gets a prize.
[HINT: these are all riddles from the middle ages.]
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RIDDLE A:
I'm told a certain something grows in its pouch, swells
and stands up, lifts its covering. A prod bride grasped
that boneless wonder, the daughter of a king covered
that swollen thing with clothing.
Answer: ?
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RIDDLE B:
A strange thing hangs by a mans thighs, hidden by a
garment. It has a hole in its head. It is stiff and strong
and its firm bearing reaps a reward. When the man
hitches his clothing high above his knee, he wants the
head of that hanging thing to poke the old hole [of
fitting length] it has often filled before.
Answer: ?
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RIDDLE C:
Quick; quite mum; I die notwithstanding. I lived once, I
live again. Everybody lifts me, grips me, and chops off
my head, bites my bare body, violates me. I don't bite a
man unless he bites me; there are many men who bite me.
Answer: ?
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RIDDLE D:
This creature is odd, its habits unaccountable. It sings
through its sides. Its neck is curved, skilfully carved,
and above its back it has pointed shoulders. It plays its
fated part as, gracefully, it stands by the roadside, high
and handsome, useful to men.
Answer: ?
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RIDDLE E:
On the way a miracle: water becomes bone.
Answer: ICE
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RIDDLE F:
Sea suckled me, waves sounded over me, rollers covered
me as I rested on my bed. I have no feet and often open
my mouth to the flood. Now some man will consume me,
who cares nothign for my clothing.
With the point of his knife he will rip the skin away from my
side, and strait away eat me uncooked as I am.
Answer: ?
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RIDDLE G:
Christ, the true giver of victories, created me for combat.
When my lord urged me to fight, I often scorch mortals;
I approach the earth and, without a touch, afflict a huge
host of people. At times I gladden the minds of men, keeping
my distance I console those whom I fought before; they
feel my kindness as they once felt my fire when, after such
suffering, I soothe their lives.
Answer: ?
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RIDDLE H:
A crature came where there sat many wise me in the
meeting-place. He had two ears and one eye, two feet
and twelve hundred heads, a back and a belly, a pair of
hands, two shoulders and arms, a neck, and two sides.
Now tell me his name.
Answer: ?
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RIDDLE I:
I saw a woman, solitary, brooding.
Answer: A HEN
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 Amazing Q · Thu Feb 22, 2007 @ 02:28am · 0 Comments |
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