D&D 5E Sphinx riddles

[jaelis]

I gave my party this one, that I particularly liked. It was a gynosphinx that was a bit of a prude and warned them to keep their minds out of the gutter (because the answer is clean). This is apparently a genuine riddle from the 10th century (translated to modern English of course). They got it eventually

Swings by his thigh
A thing most magical!
Below the belt
Beneath the folds
Of his clothes it hangs
A hole in its front end,
Stiff-set and stout
It swivels about.

Leveling the head
Of this hanging tool,
Its wielder hoists his hem
Above his knee;
It is his will to fill
A well-known hole
That it fits fully
When at full length.

He's oft filled it before.
Now he fills it again.

 

[Savage Wombat]

Scabbard?

 

[jaelis]

A scabbard doesn't fill a hole

 

[Quickleaf]

Run a sphinx recently? Or maybe you're just a fan of the classics? Share your riddles here!

Btw, there's a long-standing ENWorld riddles thread over here: http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?297095-Let-s-write-some-riddles!

Seated high above the land,
I have a face; I have no hands.
Night might wax and day may wane:
Beneath me, no one walks unseen.
Ever at rest, but no rest for me,
I determine your destiny.
You knew me not for all your lives.
Now, know me not, and you shall die.

Reconciling "seated high above the land" and "I determine your destiny" is proving very tricky.

At first I thought the answer was "Mountain" and then I thought "History," but I don't want to be sphinx food just yet

 

[jaelis]

I thought perhaps an owl, speaking to its prey? But that doesn't do much for the "Ever at rest" line.

 

[Radaceus]

pistol

 

[Radaceus]

Don't have any riddles myself, but I think the answer to this is The Moon.

the red herring is Moon,

the answer is Time

no rest for the wicked hands (clock analogy) of time!

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

I gave my party this one, that I particularly liked. It was a gynosphinx that was a bit of a prude and warned them to keep their minds out of the gutter (because the answer is clean). This is apparently a genuine riddle from the 10th century (translated to modern English of course). They got it eventually

There's a CLEAN answer?


Hmmm...waterskin?

 

[Mouseferatu]

There's a CLEAN answer?

The one I came up with certainly wasn't...

 

[TheCosmicKid]

At first I thought the answer was "Mountain" and then I thought "History," but I don't want to be sphinx food just yet

Too bad. OM NOM NOM

I thought perhaps an owl, speaking to its prey? But that doesn't do much for the "Ever at rest" line.

OM NOM NOM

the red herring is Moon,

the answer is Time

no rest for the wicked hands (clock analogy) of time!

OM NOM NOM