Substitute for execution obtained by trickery. Report that man executed just then will be king in heaven.
Deceptions. · Killing or maiming by deception. · Deception into fatal substitution. · view the constellation · filed as K841.1
Motif
Filed across the traditions
- India *Thompson-Balys.
Within the index
Filed under Substitute for execution obtained by trickery.
Carried in tale types
- The Innocent Man Condemned to Death (previously The Innocent Man Chosen to Fit the Stake [Noose]) · ATU 1534A 4 recorded variants
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