The Brothers Grimm’s “The Riddle”

A king’s son goes off into the world with only his trusted servant and encounters three deadly places to sleep, wandering in the forest and the world for a long time. He encounters beautiful and good maidens but tries to marry the third: a bewitching lover of riddles who has already dispatched nine suitors. His harrowing experiences provide him a riddle she cannot guess, and which he uses to pass on poison that gets past her defenses. He plays along, however, and her ruse is exposed to twelve judges, to whom he presents proof in the cloth of maidenhood and her distinctive identity. It is decreed that that proof be embroidered as a sign of their matrimony.

We hope you enjoy our discussion of this story of adventure, slaying dragons and liberating people from them, and finding love. This story is about demons that come when you are vulnerable and using what they give you to defeat them. In doing that with cleverness and intrepidity, in blindly moving forward with your trusted servant, you gain wisdom to emancipate good people, and even a whole kingdom, and magically transform ignorant, immature malice into prolific, mature good. In other words, this story is about faith.

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