μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Escape by asking to die falling from a tree.

Deceptions. · Escape by deception. · Escape by false plea. · view the constellation · filed as K558.1

Filed across the traditions
  • India Thompson-Balys.
Within the index

Filed under Man allowed to pick out tree to be hanged on. Cannot find one.

Filed beside it
Man asks to be beheaded standing in tank of water. He ducks and executioners kill each other

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