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
Scholars’ trail — 1reference
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.
- 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 1534A4 recorded variants