Riddlings: Newfoundland Examples
While researchers have produced lists of riddles recorded from oral tradition, few have documented how riddles play out in practice. This chapter is an attempt to suggest what some of the ‘rules of riddling’ that people who riddle implicitly know and follow, and is based on fieldwork in Newfoundland...
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Stockholm University Press
2023
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Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.16993/bci.h https://www.stockholmuniversitypress.se/site/chapters/10.16993/bci.h/download/6911/ |
Summary: | While researchers have produced lists of riddles recorded from oral tradition, few have documented how riddles play out in practice. This chapter is an attempt to suggest what some of the ‘rules of riddling’ that people who riddle implicitly know and follow, and is based on fieldwork in Newfoundland at the start of this century. |
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