The constellation
K512 Compassionate executioner. A servant charged with killing the hero (heroine) arranges the escape of the latter
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The same sky, in words
filed under
- Death order evaded · K510 entry
beneath it
- Compassionate executioners. Slaves charged with killing (drowning) the infant heroine are touched by her "laughing smile" and put her in a calfshed (hollow tree), where she is found by cowherds, who rear her · K512.0.1 entry
- "Prince will soon want me back." Executioner persuaded to let hero go · K512.0.2 entry
- Compassionate executioner: bloody coat. A servant charged with killing the hero smears the latter's coat with the blood of an animal as proof of the execution and lets the hero escape · K512.1 entry
- Compassionate executioner: substituted heart. A servant charged with killing the hero (heroine) substitutes an animal, whose heart he takes to his master as proof of the execution · K512.2 entry
- Compassionate executioner: feigns to torture victim · K512.3 entry
- Compassionate executioner: sleeping potion supplied instead of poison · K512.4 entry
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