SLOVENIAN RIDDLES

7 variants

Question: Oče je visok, mati bodeča, otroci pa pisani?
Answer: Kostanj
Archival reference: Mohorjev koledar 1880, str. 65; ŠZ 9/159, 19
Collector: Publikacija; Štrekelj, Karel
Place of collecting: 0
Date of collecting: 1880
Key-words of answer: kostanj
Subcategory: True riddle

Question: Oče je velik, pa pohleven, mati je majčkina pa huda, otroci so pa dobri. Kaj je to?
Answer: Kostanj
Archival reference: Slovenski glasnik, VII. 1861; ŠZ 9/140
Collector: Publikacija; Štrekelj, Karel
Place of collecting: 0
Date of collecting: 1861
Key-words of answer: kostanj
Subcategory: True riddle

Question: Oče je velik ko gora, Mati je žleht ko hudoba, Otroci pa dobri. Kaj je to?
Answer: Kostanjevo drevo, ježica, kostanj
Archival reference: ŠZ 8/11, 1
Collector: Pegan Anton
Place of collecting: Tolminsko
Date of collecting: 0
Key-words of answer: kostanj, ježica
Subcategory: True riddle

Question: Oče je velik, pa pohleven, mati je majčkina, pa huda, otroci so pa dobri?
Answer: Kostanj
Archival reference: UnS 368
Collector: Publikacija
Place of collecting: 0
Date of collecting: 0
Key-words of answer: kostanj
Subcategory: True riddle

Question: Mož je velik ko hrast, žena bodeča pošast, hčere pa majhne in ljube.
Answer: Kostanj
Archival reference: UnS 369
Collector: Publikacija
Place of collecting: 0
Date of collecting: 0
Key-words of answer: kostanj
Subcategory: True riddle

Question: Oče je visok, kakor gora, mati je huda, kakor pošast, otroci pa so sladki, kakor mleko, sam Bog ve, kaj je to?
Answer: Kostanj
Archival reference: UnS 369
Collector: Publikacija
Place of collecting: 0
Date of collecting: 0
Key-words of answer: kostanj
Subcategory: True riddle

Question: Oče je visok, mati bodeča, otroci pa pisani.
Answer: Kostanj
Archival reference: UnS 369
Collector: Publikacija
Place of collecting: 0
Date of collecting: 0
Key-words of answer: kostanj
Subcategory: True riddle