Riddles
Riddles are the work of folk oral poetry with short phrases and often deep and humorous contents which test one’s intellectual capacity and intend to develop one’s speculative thinking. The riddle usually consists of 2 to 4 lines of verse, although it has a potential to test one’s multiple intellectual activities of comparing, analyzing, combining, reasoning, describing and abstracting. Mongols used to say the riddle for guessing by children and youth from the teenage time and it was giving special contribution to the development of their thinking. For instance: Tuntger ovgon tumen jadtai. The fat old man has many spears, what is this? The answer is “A hedgehog”.
#folk
#oral
#poetry
#short phrase
#humor
Mongolia
