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- Origin of bald heads. A1315.2
- Baboon pressed on hot, flat rock: hence bald place on his back. (Cf. A2317.10.) A2213.2.3
- Why fly is bald. A2317.2
- Why buzzard is bald. A2317.3
- Why crow's head is bald. A2317.4
- Why raven is bald. A2317.5
- Why magpie is bald. A2317.6
- Why vulture is bald. A2317.7
- Why bat is bald. A2317.8
- Why john-crow has bald head. A2317.11
- Baldness from breaking tabu. C949.2
- Magic helmet prevents baldness. (Cf. D1101.4.) D1389.8
- Baldness magically cured. D2161.3.4
- Feathered skin magically grafted to bald head. D2161.3.4.1
- Swallowed person becomes bald. F921
- Devil as a ribald traveler. G303.3.1.3.1
- What are the most accursed things? A thriftless wife, a baldheaded daughter, a sour-faced daughter-in-law, a crooked axle, and a field which lies across the village road. H659.18.1
- Quest for bald, white-headed cow. H1331.3.1
- Magpie tells a man that his wife has eaten an eel, which she said was eaten by the otter. The woman plucks his feathers out. When the magpie sees a bald man, she says, "You too must have tattled about the eel." J551.5
- Baldheaded man finds the comb: it is useless. J1061.2
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