Does Lorick #58 bedevil you? Read it... and weep! Sure, I'm twisted and ugly and hairy but my power comes straight out of faery! If it's wishes you want I'm your hand, I'm your haunt Just beware what you wish for... I'm scary. Hint: My owner was maimed... leaving me!

Does Lorick #58 bedevil you? Read it... and weep! Sure, I'm twisted and ugly and hairy but my power comes straight out of faery! If it's wishes you want I'm your hand, I'm your haunt Just beware what you wish for... I'm scary. Hint: My owner was maimed... leaving me!

0581: Clue #58, Sure, I'm twisted and ugly and hairy

Think you can solve thrice-weekly riddles from mythology, folklore, history, and literature? 
Try this Lorick on for size:

A tempestuous prince was misled
by incestuous king, hast'ly wed
there's a ghost, and a play,
and soliloquies fey...
in the end, nearly everyone's dead!

Hint: his father ghosted him.

Answer: Hamlet! Get it?

Lorick's host? Me, Yorick! Most soliloquized skull of all time! 

If you're ready to match wits with a skeletal skald who wields riddles ranging from Alice to Apollo, Homer to Herodotus, and from Rapunzel to Ragnarok - then listen! 

E'en subscribe! If you dare...

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Think you can solve thrice-weekly riddles from mythology, folklore, history, and literature? Try this Lorick on for size: A tempestuous prince was misled by incestuous king, hast'ly wed there's a ghost, and a play, and soliloquies fey... in the end, nearly everyone's dead! Hint: his father ghosted him. Answer: Hamlet! Get it? Lorick's host? Me, Yorick! Most soliloquized skull of all time! If you're ready to match wits with a skeletal skald who wields riddles ranging from Alice to Apollo, Homer to Herodotus, and from Rapunzel to Ragnarok - then listen! E'en subscribe! If you dare...

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