A Little Book of Filipino Riddles Part 38

My black horseman rides three horses but he is crying like a fool.

A pot of cooking rice

The three horses are the firestones or the three supports of the pot in the pottery stove; the bubbling is the crying.

Time.

353.

Ania nga aldao ti caatid-dagan?

(Iloc.) Ti aldao a saan a panangan.

What day is the longest?

The day on which you do not eat

354.

Nag daan si Cabo negro, namatay na lahat ang tao.

(Tag.) Gabi

The black Corporal pa.s.sed, all the people died.

Night

Died, here, is slept.

Tools.

355.

Nung eminuna ing malati, ing maragul emituqui.

(Pamp.) Barrenang espiral

If not preceded by the smaller the larger one will not go.

Auger

356.

Adda pinarsua iti Dios natanquen ti pammaguina madi a mangan no di matoen ti olona.

(Iloc.) Paet

There is a creature of G.o.d whose body is hard; it does not wish to eat unless you strike its head.

Chisel

357.

Adda babay a labang di mangan no diai paculan.

(Iloc.) Paet

There is a woman who does not eat unless you strike her.

Chisel

358.

Ing damulag cung dapa, quing gulut ya ta tacla.

(Pamp.) Catam

My crawling carabao excretes its feces upward.

Plane

359.

Taot ngato, taot baba, cayot tingana.

(Iloc.) Ragadi

Man above, man below, wood in middle.

Saw

Below the horizontally placed timber to be sawed a pit is dug; one sawyer is below in the pit, the other above, each holds a handle of the great saw, which works up and down.

Toy.

360.

Enbontayog coy ecnol quinmocaoc ya tampol.

(Pang.) Bibintarol

I throw the eggs; they crow immediately.

Firecracker

361.

Adda abalbalayco a sinam granada rineppetco a binastabasta imbarsacco diay daga nasay sayaat ti cancionna, (Iloc.) Sunay