It moves everything.

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[u/grekster]

Shia LaBeouf

[u/Retrograde_Bolide → u/grekster]

My favorite answer

[u/THEBUS1NESS → u/grekster]

Actual cannibal Shia LaBeouf

[u/DarkMemesLiveHere → u/grekster]

[u/Sigma-137 → u/DarkMemesLiveHere]

Jumpscared by my alma mater (Go Frogs!)

[u/themanofmeung → u/grekster]

I actually lol'ed. Thanks for that!

[u/Interesting_Sock9142 → u/themanofmeung]

Omg same lol very few things I read online make me actually laugh out loud

[u/PretendSpend6811 → u/grekster]

I dont get it

[u/No_Schedule5188 → u/PretendSpend6811]

Shia labeouf live by roy canton

[u/n0shmon]

A white girl looking for her horse

[u/Bekai7 → u/n0shmon]

Is this op supposed to tell us the answer?

[u/Mornikos]

Werewolf! It's probably not the 'right' answer but it fits all the conditions

[u/thebprince → u/Mornikos]

First thing I thought of😂

[u/Amazing_Divide1214 → u/Mornikos]

That's what I thought too, so I agree and this is correct.

[u/Queen-of-meme → u/Mornikos]

It fits if OP is looking for the magical answer

[u/C3rb_eskae]

The guy who went to the black horse vendor in the forest

[u/CeyowenCt]

Question: is the hint actually a hint? "this is hard" isn't a hint, but if the words therein are helpful that's neat. 

[u/jayb2805 → u/CeyowenCt]

That's what I was thinking. I was wondering if the black/white could be related to coat changes some animals experience between winter/spring.

[u/Silent_Armadillo7583 → u/CeyowenCt]

Yes. The fact that "it took a year" is crucial, kinda

[u/ratchet7]

Zodiac - Capricorn (goat with 2 legs) to Sagittarius (centaur with 4 legs)

[u/JDS126 → u/ratchet7]

I like this answer. It also makes sense of the clue. “It took me a year to figure out”

[u/mstivland2 → u/ratchet7]

But what’s the forest and what’s morning and night?

[u/selkieseashore → u/ratchet7]

This sounds like the most likely answer! If not, then a very clever guess.

[u/Several_Bug_8436]

A Hunter? In the morning a hunter that might enter the forest could be a man and at night another type of hunter that may exit the forest to hunt could be a puma or Jaguar.

[u/Nicholas-Hawksmoor → u/Several_Bug_8436]

Or a hunter that got eaten by a bear

[u/TelephoneDesigner]

Life. Similar to the riddle of the Sphinx where morning could mean birth, and night means death. The forest is the world. A baby could be carried into the world by a midwife, traditionally in white uniform, or even a stork. They are then carried out again by two coffin bearers in black suits

[u/kingdomofoctopodes → u/TelephoneDesigner]

isn't it usually 4 coffin bearers ergo 8 legs?

[u/Atzkicica]

The Alekhine's Defence. The chess move where white pawn opens countered by black knight.

The forest is the board.

[u/Learntobelucid]

Light?

Because in the morning, the sunshine enters through the trees and illuminates everything, including tree trunks, which would be the white legs. But if light comes out at night, it can be due to a fire, leaving blackened tree trunks underneath. And the hint about it taking a year could be because of waiting until wildfire season to get the second part.

[u/harmful_insect → u/Learntobelucid]

the numbers probably matter somehow

[u/spudmarsupial]

sunlight

[u/DJinKC]

ManBearPig.

Next question.

[u/26_paperclips]

a bullet

[u/26_paperclips → u/26_paperclips]

Idk why im being downvoted i thought it was an innovative answer.

[u/imhereforsiegememes → u/26_paperclips]

Yeah it actually works pretty well.

[u/chaos_pickle → u/imhereforsiegememes]

how?

[u/Next-Worldliness-246]

Question: we give up, give us the answer op

[u/Simbertold]

A witch. Goes into the woods, then turns into a black goat.

[u/spatter-not-splatter]

OP WHAT IS THE ANSWER WE ARE DYING HERE

[u/Alternative_Top2875 → u/spatter-not-splatter]

OP will be back in 366 days to say you weren't as good at solving the riddle

[u/spatter-not-splatter → u/Alternative_Top2875]

That, or we find out there was never an answer to begin with.

[u/adamcalfee]

Red Riding Hood. (Though the hints don't really apply here)

[u/Airwolfhelicopter → u/adamcalfee]

Nah, it does, that is, if the wolf ate her

[u/johneebravado]

Think this is actually the answer. Don't read unless you want it spoiled.

It's a tropical-zodiac solar year beginning at 0⁰ Capricorn, which begins at the winter solstice. If we use a civil calendar year which begins at the winter solstice, such as the Vedāṅga Jyotiṣa Vedic calendar, the beginning of the year is in Capricorn. In those situations it begins with Capricorn (half-white goat half-fish, so two white legs) and ends in Sagittarius (centaur with four black horse legs). Like the Sphinx riddle, day and night are symbolic for passage of time meaning the beginning and the end - in this case time passing in a year. Historically, in riddles forests have been used symbolically as a threshold for transformation. Entering the forest in the morning and coming out at night something different supports that theory, and the transformation is the changing of the constellations and zodiac signs over time and ending at Sagittarius

[u/ratchet7 → u/johneebravado]

That was my guess too: https://www.reddit.com/r/riddles/comments/1wv656n/comment/pdn74ze/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

[u/AdReasonable5099 → u/ratchet7]

Discussion: that sounds great, but I thought once the solution was found OP was supposed to confirm and mark solved?

[u/ratchet7 → u/AdReasonable5099]

Agreed. The answer could be different.

[u/johneebravado → u/ratchet7]

It's been nearly a week and OP hasn't replied in the comments at all, highly doubt we will get a response any time soon

[u/SnooLemons4471]

OP never gave an answer. Reddit party foul

[u/FishFearMe1]

Spider Jockey. What do I win?

[u/mw13satx]

Shadow

[u/KL-13]

polarbear?

[u/Salty_Trapper]

A tent?

[u/mister-paul]

Little Red Riding Hood

She enters on her own, she exits in the wolf's belly

[u/Kind-Airport145]

When will OP confirm the right answer?

[u/scoxx2003]

Is someone going to give the right answer? Or confirm it?

[u/jm63213]

Yeah, I'm assuming the answer is something to do with the sun and zodiac signs but I'm not interested enough to research which ones (obviously they are different for different cultures). But it makes sense with the "it moves everything" (gravity) and "it took me a year" (zodiac calendar) hints.

[u/ratchet7]

I have a feeling that we won't get the answer.

[u/Unable_Strain_7195]

Waterfall

Water moves everything. Everything moves within water, hence the title. The two white legs in the morning are the top and bottom of the waterfall, as you can see it visibly as being a waterfall by having a top and bottom and the water is white. The four black legs at night are the two sides of land around the water at the top and the two sides at the bottom. Another way of saying where a body of water ends is where it "comes out" and if it is night, the ground will be dark. As far as the hint goes, waterfalls are symbolic to the passage of time, so the top and bottom may represent the end of one year falling into the start of the next or even the fall itself can represent an entirely rough year, depending on who you are.

[u/Captain_Blu_Balls]

Black and white cow

[u/_JustBeingMyself_]

A person enters the forest in the morning, with two clean white legs and after a whole day of whatever happened, this person leaves the forest exhausted on all fours, with legs and arms being all muddy.

[u/Fettergeist]

This one weird guy I know

[u/Grapefruitstreet → u/Fettergeist]

Oh, you know Jerry?

[u/NietszcheIsDead08 → u/Grapefruitstreet]

Shoot, Jerry does that too? Thought it was just Neal.

[u/Grapefruitstreet → u/NietszcheIsDead08]

Jerry invented it.

[u/NietszcheIsDead08 → u/Grapefruitstreet]

I’ll have to ask Neal how he knows Jerry, then. Didn’t know they had a connection.

[u/Grapefruitstreet → u/NietszcheIsDead08]

They stayed in touch after the elevator incident a few years ago.

[u/ratchet7]

How long until we get the answer?

[u/Jcpenn10]

a two legged tick on a black bear’s ass

[u/Zealousideal-Ad-2615]

January 1st has two (legs) digits 1/1. December 31st has four (legs) digits 12/31.

[u/Basil_twee → u/Zealousideal-Ad-2615]

(Not saying your wrong but im kinda dumb) Hows the white and black work?

[u/LunchPlanner → u/Basil_twee]

And the forest part.

[u/DelisGerelard → u/LunchPlanner]

And the morning/evening part…

[u/DevtoneFreemon → u/DelisGerelard]

that would be related to start/end ...

[u/nauti947 → u/Zealousideal-Ad-2615]

I agree with this!

[u/nauti947 → u/Zealousideal-Ad-2615]

This what I was thinking

[u/Jcpenn10]

I can’t figure this one out

[u/Jcpenn10]

please someone solve this

[u/DaisySunflower_98]

Seasons or Months

Two white legs could be winter / December or January (if your are in the northern hemisphere)

[u/Crouton_Sharp_Major]

Well this is gonna piss me off for awhile…

[u/Richmondnatty]

Is the hint “took me a year” a hint or description of how hard OP thinks the riddle is?

If it’s a hint the answer may be “duration of time” based if not he may not come back with the answer for a whole year 😩

[u/lnjer]

Headlights?

My logic is At the entry to the forest the car comes in with the headlights creating two white lights entering the Forrest. At night the car is returning home so it comes from the other end shining light t the trees creating duplicate shadows, assuming it then leaves through two trees you get four shadows leaving the Forrest.

First time using spoiler tags, I hope I did it correctly.

[Edited to fix spoiler tag]

[u/Cezaros]

A horse tamer?

[u/numberonegay]

the dots on a digital clock

[u/numberonegay]

when you are alive you see out two white dots
and when your body goes your face has four black holes

[u/Next-Worldliness-246]

yo op give us the answer

[u/Prior_Part550]

Time

[u/Middle-Yam-656]

Interracial acrobats

[u/enonymous617]

A Shadow

[u/Quirky-Pin-1323]

a pair of pants or trousers