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- Discourteous answer: flounder's crooked mouth. When God asks him where he is going, instead of answering he turns to go toward God. His mouth becomes crooked. (Cf. A2341.1.) A2231.1.2
- Flounder complains in race: crooked mouth. In race between fish he cries out in jealousy because herring is winning. He is punished with crooked mouth. (Cf. A2341.1.) A2252.4
- Why flounder's mouth is crooked. (Cf. A2252.4, A2231.1.2.) A2341.1
- Why ravens have crooked legs and walk lame. A2371.2.3
- Why bears have short, crooked legs. A2371.2.4
- Why baboons have crooked tails. (Cf. A2262.2.) A2378.9.2
- Magic contest, magician and giant: magician would make a dog's tail crooked, the giant would straighten it – and so on, ad infinitum. D1719.1.3
- Enemy's last arrow made to appear crooked so that he does not use it, and adversary gets time to kill him. D2031.9
- Person suffers from "crookedness in his eye" as result of curse. D2062.2.1.1
- Ghost strikes man in face, making his mouth crooked. E265.1.3
- Ghost strikes man on mouth; leaves his mouth crooked. E542.1.3
- Beheaded man's head replaced crooked. F511.0.6
- Giant with crooked nails. F531.1.6.1.2
- 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 wood neither crooked nor straight. (Sawdust.) H1378.1
- Deceptive bargain with ogre: buying trees. Trees to be neither straight nor crooked. K186
- Not to sleep for three successive nights. The sleepy man: "I am just thinking, that on earth there are more crooked trees than straight ones ... more hills than plains ... more water than land ..." The devil goes to ascertain these things, meanwhile the man sleeps. Unsuccessful imitation by another man. K216.3
- Luck determined by whether a crooked-necked demigod is looking at one. N125.2
- Crooked railroads in mountains or hills. (Cf. X1815.) X1526.1
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