μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

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

Deceptions. · Escape by deception. · Escape by false plea. · view the constellation · filed as K558.2

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
Escape by asking to die falling from a tree

ask the rhapsode about this motif · search the shelf for “executioners” · wander