Nikolai Ubushaev, about Kalmyk riddles
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Terbish, Baasanjav
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Nikolai says that in his childhood his brother and he told one another riddles every evening before bedtime. Two riddles: One step and it is there. Another step and it is here. What is it? (answer: a flea). Four friends are together, but they have two sons between them. Their driver is a wrinkled old woman. What is it? (answer: the Bactrian camel with two humps and wrinkled face).
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Riddles, wild animals
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Kalmyk Cultural Heritage Documentation Project, University of Cambridge
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Sponsored by Arcadia Fund, a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin