SLOVENIAN RIDDLES

6 variants

Question: Les na les, platno vmes, živa raca, mrtev klun.
Answer: Obed; miza je namreč prigrnjena, na mizi so okrožniki, živa raca so roke, mrtev klun so pa vilice
Archival reference: Goriški letnik, 1864, str. 225; ŠZ 9/139, 3
Collector: Publikacija; Štrekelj, Karel
Place of collecting: 0
Date of collecting: 1864
Key-words of answer: miza, krožnik, vilica, roke
Subcategory: True riddle

Question: Na lesu je les, na lesu je slama, na slami je platno, na platnu se živa raca kobaca.
Answer: Ni odgovora
Archival reference: ŠZ 8/40, 2
Collector: Pegan Anton
Place of collecting: Goriško
Date of collecting: 0
Key-words of answer: 0
Subcategory:

Question: Les na les, platno vmes, živa raca, lesen klun?
Answer: Miza, žlice, pertič i gostniki
Archival reference: ŠZ 9/142, 46
Collector: Matija Majar Ziljski
Place of collecting: 0
Date of collecting: 0
Key-words of answer: miza, žlica, prt, jedec
Subcategory: True riddle

Question: Les na les, pa usuje vmes?
Answer: Mlatni cepec
Archival reference: UnS 334
Collector: Publikacija
Place of collecting: 0
Date of collecting: 0
Key-words of answer: mlatni cepec
Subcategory: True riddle

Question: Les na les, pa prt vmes, na sredi bajer stoji in okoli njega kavke letajo?
Answer: Miza, skleda z jedjo in žlice
Archival reference: UnS 389
Collector: Publikacija
Place of collecting: 0
Date of collecting: 0
Key-words of answer: miza, skleda, žlica
Subcategory: True riddle

Question: Les pa les, platno vmes, žive race, lesen kljun; kaj je to?
Answer: Miza, žlice, pert in gost
Archival reference: UnS 389
Collector: Publikacija
Place of collecting: 0
Date of collecting: 0
Key-words of answer: miza, žlica, prt, jedec
Subcategory: True riddle