Aztec Riddles

Question: What wears a tight blouse? Answer: A tomato! Here are some more, mostly collected by the Náhuatl scholar and author John Bierhorst in his book ‘Lightning Inside You and Other Native American Riddles’...

Q. What is it? A little mirror in a house made of fir branches.
A. The eye with its lashes.

Q. What is it? Goes into the forest with its tongue hanging.
A. An axe.

Q. What lives in a black forest and dies on a white stone?
A. The lice we catch in our hair and crush on our fingernail.

Q. What is it that says to itself, ‘You go this way, I’ll go that way, and we’ll meet on the other side?’
A. A loincloth.

Q. What is it? A blue bowl filled with popcorn.
A. The sky with its stars.

Q. What are they? Ten flat stones that we carry with us.
A. Our fingernails.

Q. What is it that we enter in three places and leave by only one?
A. Our shirt.

Q. What is it that has ribs outside and is standing upright on the road?.
A. A carrying frame for loads.

Q. What is it that in one day becomes big with child?
A. A spindle.

Q.What is it always standing by the hearth curving upward?
A. A dog’s tail.

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