Riddle Me This: Difference between revisions

* From ''[[The Bible]]'', Judges 14:18; Before he notoriously killed a thousand Philistines with the jawbone of an ass, Samson made a bet with 30 of them at a party, giving them a riddle. If they solved it in 30 days, he would give them 30 sheets and 30 articles of clothing, and if they could not, they’d give him the same goods. The riddle was, “Out of the eater comes something to eat, out of the strong comes something sweet.” Well, the Philistines couldn’t answer it, so they torturedthreatened his wife, tosaying getthey'd burn their house down unless she gave them the answer, which was “a lion and honey”. (Technically this was a [[Rigged Riddle]], as only he and his wife knew the incident that inspired it; when he was wooing her, he killed a lion to impress her. They made love right there, and when they were done, he noticed bees from a nearby hive swarming on the lion's carcass, so he decided to take the honey from the hive as a gift to her parents. Even so, the riddle makes little sense.) This was pretty much how the bad blood between them started.