Having graduated from a university in a riverine community(NDU)and noticed several cases of students who got drowned in the river and stories of certain supernatural forces that leads to the drowning of those students,while not trying to sound too superstitous i keep wondering if some rivers have the capacity to differentiate between natives and strangers.....what are your experiences??have you guys heard about or witness any particular river that drowns strangers??

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Until Michael Phelps gets drowned in one of those rivers, I'll never believe it.

It's possible. There are rivers that curse people who fish in them and others that drown people who bathe in them so there must be rivers that do that. I think most of it is supernatural.

I don't believe its anything superstitious.I do believe if ever the notion is true it happens because the strangers most probably plunged into a river they have little or no knowledge about and/or are poor or not very good swimmers.

What i mean by no knowledge are :
areas with high tides and water current.
areas with the presence of rocks and/or harmful water animals.

Its only but a foolish stranger that would jump into a pool of water s/he sights without stopping to ask questions.

ifyalways: I don't believe its anything superstitious.I do believe if ever the notion is true it happens because the strangers most probably plunged into a river they have little or no knowledge about and/or are poor or not very good swimmers.

What i mean by no knowledge are :
areas with high tides and water current.
areas with the presence of rocks and/or harmful water animals.

Its only but a foolish stranger that would jump into a pool of water s/he sights without stopping to ask questions.

what would you say about a stranger who is a good swimmer and have been swimming in that river for some years and still drowns in the river??or a river that has a special period it claims life?because i remember river nun(amassoma axis)claims lives of students every year during the fishing festival of the community and most of those students are good swimmers,superstition huh

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Seems like you already have an answer to your question.

Personally, I think every drowning incident can be explained. Did any of the afore mentioned dead swimmers wear a flotation device and still drowned? I would like to see a river which 'claims' victims yearly claim someone wearing a life jacket properly.

dadicvila: what would you say about a stranger who is a good swimmer and have been swimming in that river for some years and still drowns in the river??or a river that has a special period it claims life?because i remember river nun(amassoma axis)claims lives of students every year during the fishing festival of the community and most of those students are good swimmers,superstition huh

Urban Legends,IMO.

Ow11 did a good job already.