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- Culture hero can turn feet and knees backwards. A526.8
- Invisibility by reciting formula backwards. D1985.2
- Saint causes mill to turn backwards. D2089.4
- Head of decapitated person is replaced backwards. Later is readjusted. E12.2
- Resuscitation with head on backwards. (Cf. F511.0.6.) E34.1
- Ghost will not return if door is removed and hung backwards. (Cf. D1783.) E439.9
- Person with knees backwards. F517.1.5
- Marvelous runner runs backwards. F681.7
- Perilous trap bridge. High in center. One end rises when one steps on it and throws him backwards. F842.2.1
- Reading Bible backwards causes witch to reveal herself. (Cf. D1985.2.) G257.2
- Devil's knees are backwards. G303.4.5.6
- Devil writes down names of those who look backwards in church. G303.24.1.7.2
- Man learns the fear of Death by meeting Life. Life (old woman) beheads him and replaces his head backwards. Simpleton left in fear for hours before head is readjusted. J27
- The backwards and forwards dance. Dupe persuaded to pay for learning this dance (really moving toward and away from a fire). K153
- Saint, when forced to return to his monastery after swearing not to "come with his face before him," comes walking backwards. K2312.2
- Riding backwards on donkey as punishment. Q473.5.2
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