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

Motif

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

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

Within the index

Filed under Clever means of avoiding legal punishment.

1 finer motif beneath it

Scheherazade: story with indefinite sequels told to stave off execution

Filed beside it

Execution escaped by use of special permissions granted the condemned Punishment escaped by discomfiting condemner Execution escaped by invoking laws of hospitality No second punishment for same offense Clever means of avoiding legal punishment – miscellaneous

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Captive released because of ability to recite beginning of Genesis. (Cf. J1185.)

Carried in tale types

The Prince's Seven Wise Teachers · ATU 875D* 1 recorded variant
The Robber and his Sons (previously The Old Robber Relates Three Adventures) · ATU 953 1 recorded variant

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