Literary nonsense shoes turn into popcorn because, according to the "rules" of the magic, "You have a letter Q in your name and because you have the pleasure and happiness of having a Q in your name you must have a popcorn hat, popcorn mittens and popcorn shoes". Riddles only appear to be nonsense until the answer is found. The most famous nonsense riddle is only so because it originally had no answer. In Carroll's "Alice in Wonderland", the Mad Hatter asks Alice "Why is a raven like a writing-desk?" When Alice gives up, the Hatter replies that he does not know
Raven Tales raven would come and stand on that spot. One raven at each hole. Once the ground hardened the raven turned into a person, explaining why Miwok are so dark.p101 The Nuuchahnulth are also known commonly as the Nootka. The Ojibwe are also known by other names including Anishinaabe which is the name of their language, Odawa, or Algonquin. The Plains Ojibwa, also known as Bûngi Indians, lived on the Long Plains Reserve in Manitoba. Another raven story from the Puget Sound region describes the "Raven" as having originally lived in the land of spirits (literally "bird land") that existed before