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- Why tortoise's neck is outstretched toward the sky: is looking for his wife, the star. A2351.5
- Why cock crows on roof with neck stretched out. A2426.2.18.1
- Things miraculously stretched or shortened if needed by a saint. D480.0.1
- Procrustes. Monster makes men fit his bed. Tall men sawed off, short men stretched. G313
- Pigeons cover the sun's rays with their outstretched wings and lengthen night to six months so that hero's task can be completed in one night. H982.1
- Wisdom from continual reminder of foolishness in the past. Unjust judge skinned and his skin stretched over a footstool kept in the presence of judges, so as to remind them to be just. J167
- Boots made by two cobblers. Trickster sends one of each pair back to be stretched, leaves town with pair of boots made up of the remaining boots. K233.3
- Watchman outwitted by having rope stretched across the road while fugitives escape. K623
- Lie: the stretching and shrinking harness. Man driving team with wagon uphill in rain finds on arrival at the top of the hill that the tugs of rawhide or buckskin have stretched and that the loaded wagon is still at the bottom of the hill. He unhitches the horses and throws the harness across a stump. Sometime later, or the next morning, the sun comes out and shrinks the tugs, drawing the load to the top of the hill. X1785.1