μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
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Filed under Clever means of avoiding legal punishment.

3 finer motifs beneath it
Youth will answer question only when king places him on throne: then youth calls executioners to punish cruel kingExecution escaped by threatening with maledictionKing substitutes for condemned man when he is told that whoever is executed that day is destined to become king in his next birth
Filed beside it
Execution escaped by use of special permissions granted the condemnedPunishment escaped by discomfiting condemnerExecution escaped by invoking laws of hospitalityNo second punishment for same offenseExecution escaped by story-telling. Cf. Browning's "Balaustion's Adventure."

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