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- Why leaves hang head downward. A2768
- Sea-beast: when it belches landward, it causes disease; upward it kills birds; downward, fishes and sea animals. B16.4.1.1.2
- Magic two-edged knife indicates direction. Points in proper direction; bends downward to indicate wrong direction. (Cf. D1083.) D1313.8
- Magic sod indicates falsehood by turning grassy surface downward, truth by turning it upward. (Cf. D934.1.) D1316.7
- Ghost must be summoned by king else he appears head downward. E389.1
- Suicide buried head (or face) downward. (If corpse moves it. only goes deeper into ground.) E431.16.1
- Hero sets wife to task of filling water-bottle with spout turned downward. H1023.2.2
- Fool carries wife across stream head downwards and drowns her. J1916
- Penance: hanging for a thousand years head downward over a fire of chaff. Q522.6