Note 41 — RIDDLES.

Cf. Irish Folk-lore Riddles:

Irish: As I looked out of my parlour window

I saw the dead carrying the live;

Wasn’t that a wonderful thing?

—Train full of people.

Gaelic: As I was at my window,

I looked through my gold ring;

I saw the dead carrying the living,

Wasn’t that a wondrous thing?

—Ship.

Popular Rhymes of Scotland (Chambers), 110:

As I lookit owre my window at ten o’clock at night,

I saw the dead carrying living.

Welsh-Gypsy: 27: The dead carries the living. ↑