Compassionate executioner: substituted puppet drowned — Mythoi

Motif

Compassionate executioner: substituted puppet drowned.

Deceptions. · Escape by deception. · Death order evaded. · view the constellation · filed as K512.2.3

Cited in the index

general *Boje 66.

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

Compassionate executioner: substituted head (made of clay) as proof of execution

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

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