Which is the correct shadow of the bird?

These types of puzzles are known as charades. What you have to do is find two words that are referred to in the first stanza and the second stanza and put them together to form the third word in the third stanza.

Just for example, if my first refers to 'off' and my second refers to 'ice', then my whole will be office.

My first is present - future's past -
A time in which your lot is cast.

My second is my first of space
Defining people's present place.

My whole describes a lack of site -
A place without length, breadth, or height.

They do not possess flesh or feathers or scales or bone
But still, they are blessed with fingers and thumbs of their own.

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?

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 a normal creature, but I have five hands. I can even have more but even then I will be considered normal.

Who am I?

I have a clock(12-hour format) and both the needles of the clock overlap at 12:00.
After how much time, they will overlap again?

What demands an answer, but asks no questions

I’m tall when I’m young, and I’m short when I’m old. What am I?

What has to be broken before you can use it?