Pp. 1-3, 484; II, 495 a. Little-Russian. Three lads give a girl riddles. 'If you guess right, shall you be ours?' Golovatsky, II, 83, 19. Two other pieces in the same, III, 180, 55. (W.W.)
A king's daughter, or other maid, makes the reading of her riddles a condition of marriage in several Polish tales; it may be further stipulated that a riddle shall be also given which the woman cannot guess, or that those who fail shall forfeit their life. Karlowicz in Wisła, III, 258, 270, where are cited, besides a Manuscript communication, Zbiór wiadomości do antropologii krajowej, V, 194, VII, 12; Gliński, Bajarz Polski, III, No 1; Kolberg, Krakowskie, IV, 204.
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