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- Wolf falls out of nest: cause of straight back. (Cf. A2356.2.2.) A2211.3
- Why wolf has straight back. (Cf. A2211.3.) A2356.2.2
- 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
- Man with power to make everything freeze. Wears cap over ear. Should he wear it straight everything would freeze. D2144.1.2
- Skillful marksman throws needles. One enters eye of the other so as to form a straight line. F661.7
- Forest of straight and tall trees. Each tree straight as an arrow and higher than earthly man ever saw. F812.1
- Cross-eyes straighted when hero sets head of slain opponent upon his own. F959.2
- Task: straightening a curly hair. H1023.4
- Task: making a dog's tail straight. H1023.4.1
- Quest for wood neither crooked nor straight. (Sawdust.) H1378.1
- Fool digs holes in edge of road. Only those departing from straight path will fall in. Truth of principle later seen. J95
- Lady answers queen so straightforwardly she gets light punishment. J751.1.1
- Mother crab blames her children for not walking straight. J1063.1
- Straight path not always shortest. (Cf. J21.5.) J2119.2
- One contestant chooses straight path through stones; other circles about and wins. J2119.2.2
- Deceptive division of pigs: curly and straight tails. All with curly tails belong to the trickster, others to the dupe. K171.4
- 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
- Ignorant steward straightens his master's accounts. The educated stewards have always cheated. The ignorant puts his belongings in one box, his master's in another. Both master and steward gain. L144.1
- King angry at hero who rides straight into the castle without permission. P14.11