Lizie Wan

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Lizie Wan is Child ballad 51 and a murder ballad.

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The heroine -- Lizie, Rosie, Lucy -- is pregnant with her brother's child. Her brother murders her. He tries to pass off the blood as some animal he had killed -- his grayhound, his falcon, his horse -- but in the end must admit that he murdered her. He sets sail in a ship, never to return.

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