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- Animal's method of swimming. A2444
- Giant swimming raven. B31.3.1
- Tabu: swimming with certain birds. C858
- Magic shirt prevents fatigue during swimming. (Cf. D1056.) D1384.4.1
- Magic blue stone prevents fatigue during swimming. (Cf. D1072.) D1384.4.2
- Shark-man ogre, eater of children swimming. G308.5
- Substitution of low-caste boy for promised child detected when he prefers long road to short one through jungle (swimming instead of ferry, etc.) H38.2.5
- Task: gathering firewood; bundle continually swept away from swimming man. H1129.5.1
- The bookman and the boatman: each ignorant of other's work. Bookman's swimming saves their lives. J251.1
- Fox in swollen river claims to be swimming to distant town. J873
- Swimming (fishing) in the flax-field. Peasants go to visit the sea. They see a waving flax-field, and, thinking it is the sea, jump in to swim. J1821
- Marking the place in the sand. Vessel left under mound in sand while owner is swimming. Others make similar mounds so that it is lost. J1922.3
- While swimming with the lizard, toad exchanges own ugly daughter for lizard's pretty one. K476.5
- Fatal swimming race. To trick spirits hero proposes a swimming race. As each spirit arrives, hero drowns it. K869.4
- Bluff: provisions for the swimming match. In a swimming match from a ship the hero takes a knapsack of provisions on his back. His rival is afraid and gives up. K1761
- Poor boy said by helpful animal to be dispossessed prince (wealthy man) who has lost clothes while swimming (in shipwreck). K1952.1.1
- Entering a garden by swimming down a stream that flows into it. K2377