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- Why the sea is salt: because of wrecked salt ship. A1115.1
- Bat, diver, and thornbush shipwrecked. Bat brought money, bush put on clothes, and diver brought leather. All shipwrecked. Diver is looking for his leather. Bush looks for his clothers and holds fast to all passers-by. Bat is abroad only at night to escape creditors. (Cf. A2471.4, A2491.1.) A2275.5.3
- Shipwrecked man repulsed by animals. As he floats to shore animals push him back into water. B772
- Water-spirits save shipwrecked people. F420.5.1.1.1
- Ship wrecked by witch. (Cf. F420.5.2.7.3.) G269.8
- Shipwrecked shepherd distrusts the sea. He had formerly envied sailors. J11
- Escape by shammed drowning; wrecked boat or coffin lands. K522.6
- Boat lured to land with kind words and wrecked in order to take vengeance on the men. K815.12
- Disguised shipwrecked men admitted to the king's house kill him at Yule feast in revenge for murder. K913.1
- Shipwrecked men call themselves by false names. K1831.1
- Wrecked man saved on coffer of jewels; becomes rich. N226
- Shipwrecked man lands on deadly enemy's territory and is attacked. N399.1
- Seaman who defies God shipwrecked. Q221.4
- Faithful servant locks his master and his friend up in a little house built from wood from their wrecked ships; they falsely think themselves betrayed. R53.4
- Shipwrecked each get a piece of the chief's gold ring in order to have gold with them in death. V64.1