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Though smoky, I will never billow

I could drop enough straw for a pillow

And easily collect what had spilled

Unless of course I was being carried

By a young lad who struggled and tarried

On account of his slight build

My first is like mind control

My second looks like it means nothing

My third is all too common

My fourth is usually very thin

All together I relate to the riddle above

Be warned, I am full of deceit, not love

Though I can be bright, My ways aren't right

I lure away from the proverbial light

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Reading smoky as a color I thought possibly a large bird smoky in color like maybe a raven. They gather up straw for nests and couldn't pick up straw if a boy was carrying them.

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Though smoky, I will never billow

I could drop enough straw for a pillow

And easily collect what had spilled

Unless of course I was being carried

By a young lad who struggled and tarried

On account of his slight build

My first is like mind control

My second looks like it means nothing

My third is all too common

My fourth is usually very thin

All together I relate to the riddle above

Be warned, I am full of deceit, not love

Though I can be bright, My ways aren't right

I lure away from the proverbial light

Confessing clueless at the mo - watching football and drinking tea with biscuits

like u - O - OO! Mowgli

or a combine harvester

The people that lure ships onto the rocks
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Confessing clueless at the mo - watching football and drinking tea with biscuits

The people that lure ships onto the rocks

Lost, I think you're thinking of...

sirens

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Lost, I think you're thinking of...

sirens

Lost - you are more vague than me, but i am sure you know what you are thinking.

No we have done those - actually itachi-san has done those.

I mean the people...

lure the ship on to rocks and claim the salvage rights, going hell bent for lether to collect the cargo while leaving mariners to drown

What are they called? - not the dead mariners the Lanton holding shipwrecking caargo stealing murders

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I'll add a line to go along with the primary riddle in the OP:

Though smoky, I will never billow

I could drop enough straw for a pillow

And easily collect what had spilled

Unless of course I was being carried

By a young lad who struggled and tarried

On account of his slight build

Add her to me and I help keep secrets

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I'll add a line to go along with the primary riddle in the OP:

Though smoky, I will never billow

I could drop enough straw for a pillow

And easily collect what had spilled

Unless of course I was being carried

By a young lad who struggled and tarried

On account of his slight build

Add her to me and I help keep secrets

Glasses =3 btw im not trying to say i think im right im saying click for my thinking...>.<

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I feel like Newton when the apple fell on his head (you could almost see a lightbulb turn on above my head) except now i think of it, it doesn't sound anywhere near right.

NEways:

is it 'wisp' (or 'whisp')?

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Sirens ARE the ones that lure the ships. Or are we just playing "Who's On First" here? :D
You are talking myhtical and I am talking real actual 18th/19th century events that were practised!
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I feel like Newton when the apple fell on his head (you could almost see a lightbulb turn on above my head) except now i think of it, it doesn't sound anywhere near right.

NEways:

is it 'wisp' (or 'whisp')?

You got it! good job ;)

Edit: oh yeah, I forgot about the second part... any takers on that one now?

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I do not understand the straw reference now that the solution is confirmed.

You got it! good job ;)

Edit: oh yeah, I forgot about the second part... any takers on that one now?

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I do not understand the straw reference now that the solution is confirmed.

Bunch of twigs/straw (wisp)used to make fire i think, and a Will O' the wisp is a pheneomenon. It is still to be fully explained as it recedes as you get neare so seeing it a and finding/touching it.

Can't fully explain the interpretation by Itachi-san though

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