Riddles

It falls standing but runs on its belly.

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Rain

When the horse strokes the cat, the wood begins to sing.

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A violin

Make  of me nothing and nothing fits me

Make of me something and something I’ll be

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A Riddle

On the way I saw a great wonder: Water had turned to bone.

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Ice

Placed above it makes greater things small. Placed beside it makes small things greater. In matters that counts it always comes first. Where others increase it keeps all things the same. What is it?

 

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The number one

A lot of little brothers, lined in one house. If you scratch their head they will die. What are they?

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Matches

If you had found me in my youth then you would have happily drunk the blood I shed. But now that time has made me old, you eat me anyway. Wrinkled as I am with no moisture in me, crushing my body against your teeth.

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A grape/raisin

What belongs to you, but others use it more than you?

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Your name

You go into it through one hole. You come out of it through three holes. When you are inside it yyou are ready to go outside. When you are outside you are still inside. What is it?

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A sweater

Something was here since the world began. Yet it is never more than a month old.

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The moon

There is a story that a man and not a man
Saw and did not see a bird and not a bird
Perched on a branch and not a branch
And hit him and did not hit him with a rock and not a rock.
How is this possible?

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A boy who did not see well saw a bat perched on a reed and threw a pumice stone at him which missed.