M31. Discharged into water. .24.36.39.40.

A character who can't swim asks another to take him by water. He agrees, but throws the rider into the water.

Kelabit, East Timor, mangaray, central Yakuts, itelmen, coastal Koryaks, Kereks, Chukchi, Asian Eskimos.

Malaysia-Indonesia. Kelabit [dwarf deer (pelandok) invites the turtle to eat fruit in the garden; sheds fruits; people come to the noise, the deer runs away, the turtle is caught; they try to decapitate it, it draws her head in; throws her head into the fire - does not burn; offers to press, she says she didn't press last time; pretends to be thrown into the water; swims away; the dwarf deer promises her a vegetable garden for by the river; she carries him, he is dissatisfied, she throws it off, it sinks]: Villard 2013:37-43; East Timor [after climbing a banana, the Monkey eats the fruit itself, throws only skins to the Turtle; after eating, screams that the Turtle steals bananas, runs away; the turtle has been beaten, since then its shell is cracked; after a while the Monkey asks the Turtle to ride it on the sea; it swims into the open sea, dives, Monkey sinks]: Anonimo 1955b: 161; mangaray [The crow invites the Frog to raise it high into the sky; the Frog agrees to tie its leg to the Raven's paw; in the sky he suffers from thirst, dies, the Raven eats it; Another Frog tells the Crow that there are many frogs in the depths of the pool; the Raven agrees to tie its paw to the Frog's leg, which drags it under water, the Raven drowned]: Burger 1941, No. 14:274-275.

Eastern Siberia. Central Yakuts: Pekarsky, Popov 1928 [the frog married a "water daughter" (a water insect from the beetle order); the latter went home to bring her dowry, caught up with many water lovers and called her husband (frog) to help; the frog rode on a water rat; the rat was frightened of the beetles and rushed into the hole, and the frog fell on its back; because the frog was riding a water rat , the last front of the hind legs has goals (wool was wiped off)]: 20; Ergis 1964, No. 33 (central?) [The frog asks the Water Rat to ride it; hits it with a blade of grass to kick it like a horse; she throws it into the water; (published in the 1923 primer, ed. S.A. Novgorodova)]: 103; Sivtsev, Efremov 1990:19-20 [retelling? But there is a detail missing in Ergis 1964: the Rat has frog paw marks on its sides].

SV Asia. Itelmen [the fox wanted to marry; found wormed fish that had swept away the eggs; sat down and shakes it like a child - she is very pregnant; she eats worms herself; two loons are swimming along the river; the fox asks her to take it, calls himself the wife of a loon; loon: I am not a father to your child, his father is swimming behind; seagulls are swimming; the fox calls himself the wife of a seagull, sat on rafts; seagulls agree to fly; fox: what? seagulls: we say: swim carefully; seagulls flew up in a deep place, the fox was in the water, barely got out; lay down, taking off her skin and taking out her eyes, fell asleep; the raven Kutkh came up and poured water on it; the fox now naked and blind; she is called out by blueberries that pick themselves up; she makes eyes out of blueberries (all blue); the same from lingonberries (all red); from shiksha; finds her dried skin; soaks in a puddle , wears]: Menovshchikov 1974, No. 166:506-508; coastal Koryaks (Alutortsy) [Kutkinnyaku's raven insists that the Crab ride it; Crab puts it on his back, takes it to sea, dumps it, K. drowned]: Kibrik et al. 2000, No. 4:26-28; kereki [mice are rolling down the hill; this is the yaranga where the Kala woman lives; she sews; something blocks the light; she thinks it's her cheek, eats her; then the second the cheek is the same; when she saw the mice, she put them in a bag, hung them in yaranga on the upper crossbar; a fox lives next to her daughter Imyna; went to wander, hears crying; mice teach: in order for the bag to fall, you must promise fill it with mouse fat; the fox released the mice, was left alone, which died; the fox filled the bag with shiksha branches; told the mice to go home; let everyone migrate, leaving the sheep's carcass in its original place; at home tells Ymynne to cook alder bark; the feces returned with firewood; got an answer from the stone who released the mice; the fox says she is sick; gives tiny alder feces, says it's a disease, asks go to the mountain and throw it away; she came up from behind and pushed the feces off the cliff; eiders are floating on the ice floes; the fox asks to take her for a boat ride; they say that the boat will disappear; seagulls take; the seagull got along the fox's wings; tells her not to sneeze when the sun rises; the fox sneezed, fell into the sea; swam on a log to the shore; went to bed, taking out her eyes and velv to guard her; the old Kala woman got out of the abyss, poured sleeping with water; the fox got angry at its eyes for not guarding them well, ate them; went to look for new ones; the eyes made of berries are not suitable, everything around is red; made new ones from ice floes; shot at a sleeping bear; she herself offers to cure him with hot stones; the bear is dead; the fox's daughters ate meat; the fox imposed the vertebrae on a rope, tied him to the tail of a sleeping wolf; shouted that he was being chased by toothy- fanged; the wolf cut off its tail on the bushes; the grandmother sewed a new one, but it was no longer fluffy; and the parts of the fluffy fox ordered her daughters to sew; now the tip of the fox's tail is white and the fox is black; the sea used to be transparent; after the fox fell into it, it became salty and cloudy]: Menovshchikov 1974, No. 116:364-371; Chukchi (zap. ABOUT. Baboshina) [eiders are swinging on the ice floe; the chanterelle also wants; the eiders warn that it will fall into the water; they swam away; the seagulls agreed to take it; the wind blew and the ice floe fell apart; the chanterelle hardly swam to the shore ; began to dry clothes; guillemots are invited to swing on the ice floe; the chanterelle refused, ran into the tundra]: Gribova 1980:.

The Arctic. Asian Eskimos (Naukan): Menovshchikov 1969 [=1985, No. 16:51-52; the fox asks rowers to take her to the kayak; the rowers in the first and second kayaks ask to wait for the next one; the third fox picks up; she sings and hits a tambourine to make the road seem short; suddenly she feels cold, she is in the water, and a flock of teals flies away; the fox swam to the shore, something pulls back - the tail; on the shore, a fox spread the skin, took out her eyes, began to dry it; the raven pecked his eyes; the fox put on the skin, still looking for her eyes]: 20-22; 1974, No. 52 [the fox walks along the shore, sees the kayak, asks the rowers to take it; they took it with the visible with respect; the fox closed its eyes; suddenly the kayak took off, the fox was in the water; they were teal ducks carrying a fox on their wings; the fox had difficulty reaching the shore]: 203-204.