Answer:
What gets beaten, and whipped, but never cries?
I bind it and it walks. I loose it and it stops.
In the evening I'm long, in the morning I'm smallΝΎ When seen in a ballroom, I'm nothing at all.
A doctor might remove one from the neck of a Dracula victim.
What is that which, though black itself, enlightens the world without burning?
Almost everyone needs it, asks for it, gives it. But almost nobody takes it.
Difficult
Animal
Easy
Food
Funny
Kids
Logic
What am I?