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 — Mythoi

Motif

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.

Deceptions. · Escape by deception. · Death order evaded. · view the constellation · filed as K512.0.1

Filed across the traditions

Irish myth *Cross.

Within the index

Filed under Compassionate executioner. A servant charged with killing the hero (heroine) arranges the escape of the latter.

Filed beside it

"Prince will soon want me back." Executioner persuaded to let hero go 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 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 Compassionate executioner: feigns to torture victim Compassionate executioner: sleeping potion supplied instead of poison

ask the rhapsode about this motif · search the shelf for “compassionate” · wander