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- God of sailors. A456
- Goddess of sailors. A456.1
- Tabu: wishing good luck. One must not wish a hunter good luck or a sailor good voyage. C493.1
- Ghost brings disaster on sailors. E271.1
- Phantom sailors and travelers. E510
- Flying Dutchman has dead men as sailors. E511.2.1
- Water-spirits protect and warn sailor against storm and in tempest. F420.5.1.1
- Shipwrecked shepherd distrusts the sea. He had formerly envied sailors. J11
- Even God can overdo it! Returning sailor finds his hovel transformed into a fine house. "Where does all this come from?" Wife: "God's bounty." Illegitimate child greets mother. Same question, same answer. Sailor: "I don't want God to help me so much!" J1279.2
- Must drink from the common cup. A man always drinks out of his own cup. In storm at sea a sailor says, "Today we all drink out of the same cup (the sea). J1467
- Sailor prays for gods to sink ship during storm, since gods never do what they are asked to do. J1467.1
- The fatal bed. A sailor says that all his ancestors have drowned. Citizen: "Aren't you afraid of drowning?" Sailor: "How did your ancestors die?" Citizen: "All of them in bed." Sailor: "Aren't you afraid to go to bed?" J1474
- The Snow-Child. (Modus Leibinc.) A sailor's wife bears a son in his absence and says that it came from eating snow. Later the husband makes away with the boy who, he says, melted in the sun. J1532.1
- Whale thought to be island. Sailors light a fire on his back. J1761.1
- Alleged healing stone sold. A sailor boy sells a seasick Jew "Babylon stones" as a cure. They are pieces of coal. K115.2
- Sailor offers saint a candle as large as a mast. But he knows that after the storm he will not try to find such a candle. K231.3.1
- Bluff: climbing the mast. In a contest in climbing the mast the hero falls into the rigging. "You do the same thing," he challenges. The sailors are persuaded of his expertness. K1762
- Incognito prince (king) sold into slavery. Disguised as sailor. K1812.11
- Treacherous sailor. K2259.4
- Sailors rescue abandoned child. R131.14