Always in you, Sometimes on you;

If I surround you, I can kill you.

What am I?

I am taken from a mine and shut up in a wooden case, from which I am never released, and yet I am used by almost every person. What am I?

I am beautiful, up in the sky. I am magical, yet I cannot fly. To people I bring luck, and to some people, riches. The boy at my end does whatever he wishes. What am I?

What is the riddle which can be asked all day with a different correct answer each time.

There are a number of books on a shelf. If one book is the 4th from the left and 6th from the right, how many books are on the shelf?

Give it food and it will live; give it water and it will die.

Samuel was out for a walk when it started to rain. He did not have an umbrella and he wasn't wearing a hat. His clothes were soaked, yet not a single hair on his head got wet. How could this happen?

The more of this there is, the less you see. What is it?

I am the beginning of the end, and the end of time and space. I am essential to creation, and I surround every place. What am I?

It comprises roots which nobody sees,
Much taller than those trees,
Up and up it goes,
Still it never grows?