Scheherazade: story with indefinite sequels told to stave off execution

Motif

Scheherazade: story with indefinite sequels told to stave off execution.

The wise and the foolish. · Cleverness. · Clever persons and acts. · Cleverness in the law court. · Clever means of avoiding legal punishment. · view the constellation · filed as J1185.1

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Scholars’ trail — 1reference

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

general *Chauvin V 190 No. 111.

Within the index

Filed under Execution escaped by story-telling. Cf. Browning's "Balaustion's Adventure."

Carried in tale types

Storytelling Saves a Wife from Death (Sheherazade) · ATU 875B*1 recorded variant

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