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J1189 Clever means of avoiding legal punishment – miscellaneous
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- Youth will answer question only when king places him on throne: then youth calls executioners to punish cruel king · J1189.1 entry
- Execution escaped by threatening with malediction · J1189.2 entry
- King substitutes for condemned man when he is told that whoever is executed that day is destined to become king in his next birth · J1189.3 entry