[162] Cf. Popular Rhymes and Nursery Tales (Halliwell), 143:
10. What God never sees,
What the King seldom sees,
What we see every day,—
Read my riddle, I pray.
Irish Folk-lore Riddles:
(Gaelic) I sought for it and found it, ’twas easy its finding,
The thing that God never found and never can find.
Welsh-Gypsy, 247:
What is it God does not see, etc.
Catalan, 80:
CVI. Qu’es aixó?
Lo pastò’ ho veu á la montanya
y no ’u veu lo rey de Espanya.
Porto Rican (Mason and Espinosa); 300.
[163] Cf. Booke of Merry Riddles (Halliwell):
LXIII. What is that no man would have and yet when he hath it will not
forgoe it?
—A broken head.
Irish Folk-lore Riddles: 74:
I have it and I don’t think much of it; but if I had it not, there
would be great grief on me.
[164] Cf. No. 106, p. 195.
English: New Collection, 180:
There is a thing was three weeks old
When Adam was no more;
This thing it was but four weeks old
When Adam was four-score.
Irish and Anglo-Irish: Folk-lore Riddles, 76.
Canadian, Ontario, 70.
[165] Cf. Porto Rican (Mason and Espinosa):
389. Qué es lo que el muerto come, que si el vivo lo come se muere
también?
[166] Cf. Porto Rican (Mason and Espinosa):
90 (Cf. 17) En el mundo no lo hubo,
en la tierra no se halló;
Dios, con ser Dios no lo tuyo,
y un hombre a Dios se lo dió.
New-Mexican Spanish, 321:
Se que en el cielo no lo hubo,
siendo Dios quien lo inventó;
y si el mismo Dios lo tuvo,
fué un hombre quien se lo dió.
[167] Numbers enclosed within parentheses belong to the last group and
are not strictly Jamaica folk riddles.
[168] Journal of American Folk-Lore. (New York.)
[169] Folk-Lore. (London.)
[170] Folk-Lore Record. (London.)
[171] Memoirs of the American Folk-Lore Society. (New York.)
[172] Publication of the Folk-Lore Society. (London.)
[173] See supplementary note, p. 289.
[174] See supplementary note, p. 290.
[175] See supplementary note, p. 290.
[176] See supplementary note, p. 290.
[177] See supplementary note, p. 290.