Riddles

Roger D. Abrahams and Alan Dundes define "true riddles" as "enigmatic questions in the form of descriptions whose referent must be quessed. From a Western literary point of view, these are the most interesting for they employ witty devices in orde to confuse" (Abrahams 130).

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