?Riddles? (tradition, judaism)

[UltraViolet]

Does a key speak of securing? or opening.
Does a chair speak of sitting when it has broken its leg?
Does a bed bid you rest in the middle of a flower garden?

[nutshell]

If you get olive oil from squeezing olives where does baby oil come from?

[Seyorni]

What walks on four legs at dawn, two at noon, and three at dusk?

[Hema]

Originally Posted by Seyorni

What walks on four legs at dawn, two at noon, and three at dusk?

I think I heard this one....is it a human being? As babies, we crawl on our hands and knees, then when we are adults, we walk on two legs, but when we are old, we use a walking stick for support - the third leg.

[UltraViolet]

Originally Posted by Seyorni

What walks on four legs at dawn, two at noon, and three at dusk?

and yet dawn is always mourning.....

[Isabella Lecour]

Originally Posted by theNEWreality

and yet dawn is always mourning.....

That's no mystery. Mourn my birth and celebrate my death. It's an old tradition of my family that I'm led to believe is based in Judaism. Perhaps other RF's could shead some light on this.

[Guitar's Cry]

Originally Posted by theNEWreality

and yet dawn is always mourning.....

And cries in dewdrops tipping the grass-leaf.

[Seyorni]

Originally Posted by Hema

I think I heard this one....is it a human being? As babies, we crawl on our hands and knees, then when we are adults, we walk on two legs, but when we are old, we use a walking stick for support - the third leg.

Well done.

This was the riddle posed by the sphynx, a monster who lived on the road to Thebes, to Oedipus.
The sphynx would pose each passer-by a riddle. If they could not solve the riddle they would be devoured.
Oedipus answered correctly, but probably later wished he hadn't.

How about this one, asked of Alice by the Mad Hatter: "How is a raven like a writing-desk"?

[Hema]

Originally Posted by Seyorni

Well done.

Yay! Thank you.

This was the riddle posed by the sphynx, a monster who lived on the road to Thebes, to Oedipus.
The sphynx would pose each passer-by a riddle. If they could not solve the riddle they would be devoured.
Oedipus answered correctly, but probably later wished he hadn't.

Whoa, that's i