Repository logo
 

Nikolai Ubushaev, about Kalmyk riddles


Change log

Authors

Terbish, Baasanjav 

Abstract

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).

Description

Keywords

Riddles, wild animals

Is Part Of

Publisher

Kalmyk Cultural Heritage Documentation Project, University of Cambridge

Publisher DOI

Publisher URL

Sponsorship
Sponsored by Arcadia Fund, a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin