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P15 Adventures of kings
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- Disguised king punished by peasant. Beaten because he does not get up early enough. (King Alfred and the cakes.) · P15.1 entry
- King demands subject's wife for himself · P15.2 entry
- King loses his kingdom to impostor. (Cf. K1934.1.) · P15.3 entry
- King is cursed by disguised dwarf-smiths whose work he criticised · P15.4 entry
- King frees man sent by rival king to kill him. He sees bravery in the would-be assassin · P15.5 entry
- King descends to bottom of sea in glass barrel to study ways of fishes · P15.6 entry
- King himself works at brick building so that subjects cannot complain of enforced labor · P15.7 entry
- Subjects drive their ruler away after he has made them do forced labor · P15.8 entry