Compassionate executioner: bloody knife (sword) from slain animal substitute — Mythoi

Motif

Compassionate executioner: bloody knife (sword) from slain animal substitute.

Deceptions. · Escape by deception. · Death order evaded. · view the constellation · filed as K512.1.1

Filed across the traditions

India *Thompson-Balys.

Within the index

Filed under 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.

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