Answer:
What 8 letter word can have a letter taken away and it still makes a word. Take another letter away and it still makes a word. Keep on doing that until you have one letter left. What is the word?
An utensil used for bread. Also a paper cutter. Used by a thug to take a life, Or wielded by the tamest wife, When used to spread the butter.
What is it that given one, you'll have either two or none?
A father's child, a mother's child, yet no one's son
What is it that after you take away the whole, some still remains?
When is it bad luck to see a black cat?