Answer:
What has fingers and a thumb but no hand?
What time starts and stops with an ānā?
Whipping one of these out in the wrong setting is said to be terrible luck.
Born in the past, but only lives in the present. Sometimes false, always personal.
It could make arrows fly and kites soar. What is it?
It flows out of the soil, It burns you if it boils, And holds us in its coils, More valuable than gold, As black as it is old.