Thompson D1311.11.1: River says, "The time has come but not the man".

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This motif’s exact utterance is “The time has come but not the man,” followed by a man induced to drown himself. The lake voice repeats the same message three times and the man identified as its addressee dies after drinking lake water. Because the account does not say he drowned or was induced to drown himself, I mark the clear verbal and causal parallel possible.

• „De Tid is üm, un de Minsch is noch nich dor!“
• „Als die aufmerksam Horchenden endlich aber zum drittenmale dieselben Worte vernommen hatten“
• „daß er der Mann gewesen sei, den die Stimme aus dem See gerufen habe.“