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Jamaica Anansi stories

Note 72 — RIDDLES.

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Cf. West Highlands (Campbell), 2:419:

Totaman, Totaman, little black man,

Three feet under and bonnet of wood.

Welsh-Gypsy:

Black within and black without,

Four legs an’ a iron cap.

Lincolnshire Riddles (Notes and Queries, 3rd series, VIII), page 503, etc. ↑

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