Does Lorick #117 bedevil you? Read it... and weep! when light fails in the woods, we're alone. happens twice... once we're saved by our stones but birds feed and we're lost a bird leads and we're caught we escape we are rich we are home! Hint: stepmother is bad, witch is worse

Does Lorick #117 bedevil you? Read it... and weep! when light fails in the woods, we're alone. happens twice... once we're saved by our stones but birds feed and we're lost a bird leads and we're caught we escape we are rich we are home! Hint: stepmother is bad, witch is worse

1171: Clue #117, when light fails in the woods, we're alone

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! 

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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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