"A Riddling Tale" is a type of German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm in Grimm's Fairy Tales.Jacob and Wilheim Grimm, Household Tales, "A Riddling Tale" In German, a "riddling tale" is called "Rätsel-Märchen".
A common example is Aarne-Thompson type 407, the girl as a flower.D.L. Ashliman, "The Grimm Brothers' Children's and Household Tales (Grimms' Fairy Tales)" The tale portion of it is subordinate to the riddle, and the tale is not widely found in the oral tradition.Stith Thompson, The Folktale, p 95, University of California Press, Berkeley Los Angeles London, 1977
Synopsis Three women were changed to identical flowers. One was allowed home at night and told her husband to pick and free her. He did so.
Riddle
How did he recognize her?
Answer
The other flowers, having been in the field all night, had dew on them. The wife did not. So for that, he would know that that flower was his wife.
References
Additional sources Angelopoulos, Anna, Sylvette Gendre-Dusuzeau, and Agnès Jacob. "The Riddle Tale." In Greek Folktales and Psychoanalysis, ed. by Anna Angelopoulos, pp. 217-239. Routledge.