Compassionate executioner: substituted child. The servant charged with sending the hero to executioners sends his own child instead

Motif

Compassionate executioner: substituted child. The servant charged with sending the hero to executioners sends his own child instead.

Deceptions. · Escape by deception. · Death order evaded. · view the constellation · filed as K512.2.2

Scholars’ trail — 3references

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

Jewish*Neuman
JapaneseIkeda.
general *Boje 63 n. 1

Within the index

Filed under 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.

1 finer motif beneath it

Executioner makes substitution when victim escapes

Filed beside it

Compassionate executioner: substituted brains (other animal for helpful animal)Eyes of animal substituted as proof for eyes of children Eyes, ears, fingers of corpse substituted for those demanded of victim Animal substituted for child served at meal Compassionate executioner: substituted puppet drowned Compassionate executioner: mutilation substituted for death

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