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Motifs — first 20 of 31
- Mermaid's singing causes sleep. Girl tumbles from boat and drowns. B81.11
- Magic boar drowns houndpack. B184.3.1.1
- Water gradually envelops girl filling pitcher and drowns her. Work of malevolent rice-spirit. D1432.1
- Woman beset by elves (or phantoms) drowns self. F324.2
- Fairy leaves when druid utters spell that drowns her voice. F381.6
- Treacherous river overflows and drowns victims. F932.8.4
- Witch drowns foal. G265.2
- Test of goddess's favor: husband drowns his son to see if his wife's tutelary goddess can bring him back to life. H1577.2
- Raven drowns his young who promise to aid him when he becomes old. He saves one who admits he will not help, because he will have to carry his own young. J267.1
- Fool carries wife across stream head downwards and drowns her. J1916
- Man leaps into river and drowns in effort to save his treasure. J2146.2
- Man lets his infant son play in river. Son drowns. J2175.4
- "Don't allow paint to wear off my daughter's feet." Bridegroom carries her upside down across river and drowns her. (Cf. J2412.6.) J2489.11
- One fewer to pay for. A man carries blind men over a stream at a certain price per head. One falls down and drowns. He comforts the others that there is one fewer to pay for. J2566
- The fool seeks a midwife. Accidentally strikes the dog dead, drowns the midwife, and kills the child. J2661.2
- Fatal swimming race. To trick spirits hero proposes a swimming race. As each spirit arrives, hero drowns it. K869.4
- Dupe crowded into the water: drowns. K892
- Dupe forced on to thin ice: drowns himself. K893
- Husband tricks wife into riding a mule which has been denied water. On fording a stream the mule plunges into the water. Wife drowns. (Sometimes also paramour.) K1567
- Woman who tries to push husband into river falls in when he steps aside. She drowns because she has tied his hands and he is unable to aid her. (She also thinks he is blind because she has fed him rich food to induce blindness.) (Cf. Type 1380.) K1652