Samoans who traded riddles
tellers of riddles · Samoa · before the 19th century
Samoans amused themselves by asking and guessing riddles. The makers are unknown. Ten of them survive in English in the 1884 book of George Turner, a missionary who lived long in Samoa.
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19th century · A riddle; the answer is a banana tree with its bunch of bananas.
A man who continues standing out of doors with a burden on his back.A riddle printed in George Turner, Samoa, A Hundred Years Ago and Long Before (1884), no. 1 · in place of the original: the English translation by George Turner (1884)
19th century · A riddle; the answer is a man's fingers and toes, the nails being the hats.
There are twenty brothers, each with a hat on his head.A riddle printed in George Turner, Samoa, A Hundred Years Ago and Long Before (1884), no. 2 · in place of the original: the English translation by George Turner (1884)
19th century · A riddle; the answer is the surf on the reef, which never rests.
There is a man who calls out continually day and night.A riddle printed in George Turner, Samoa, A Hundred Years Ago and Long Before (1884), no. 5 · in place of the original: the English translation by George Turner (1884)
19th century · A riddle; the answer is a hen sitting on her eggs.
The person who sleeps on a bed of whales' teeth.A riddle printed in George Turner, Samoa, A Hundred Years Ago and Long Before (1884), no. 8 · in place of the original: the English translation by George Turner (1884)
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