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- Winged serpent as boat: passengers within. F911.3.2
- Ungrateful river passenger kills carrier from within. Crawls inside during the passage. (Porcupine and buffalo.) K952.1
- Passenger brings bad luck to ship. Cast overboard. Jonah. (Cf. S264.1.) N134.1.5
- Passengers on a boat are terrorized by a cutthroat. He turns courteous and leaves them unharmed. N695
- Eternal ferryman. Always transports passengers and when the ruler is in danger takes his place. (Cf. Q25.) P413.1
- River carrier (whale, crocodile) throws passenger off and drowns him. S131.1
- Man leaps from vessel into jaws of sea-beast, so as to save remaining passengers. S263.5.3
- Man leaps from vessel into jaws of sea-beast so as to save remaining passengers. W28.3