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 — Mythoi

Motif

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.

Deceptions. · Escape by deception. · Death order evaded. · view the constellation · filed as K512.1

Filed across the traditions

Icelandic *Boberg
India *Thompson-Balys
Japanese Ikeda.
general *Cox 475
general *Boje 62, 66

Within the index

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

1 finer motif beneath it

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

Filed beside it

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 "Prince will soon want me back." Executioner persuaded to let hero go 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

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