Particular practices of kings.
Society. · Royalty and nobility. · Kings. · view the constellation · filed as P14
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Prisoners released as celebration of king's successKing will not permit a one-eyed man in his presenceKing playing chess when important news arrivesKing orders all gold brought to himKing never touches earth: carried always by slavesKing's (prince's) sulking chamber. He sulks here until his wishes are carried outNone permitted to enter hall of king unless he possesses an artKing does not want men who are unable to engage in any sportLaw that nobody may give the king bad tidingsKings have seat on hillsKing angry at hero who rides straight into the castle without permissionKing has his own gifts stolen back for himKing gives his own wife as rewardKing requires everyone who comes before him to tell a storyKing has champion to enforce respectThreefold division of king's day: one third dedicated to watching boys at play; one third to playing fidehell (chess?); one third to drinkingKing's stronghold on islandKing orders man whose neck the rope will fit to be executedKing goes in disguise at night to observe his subjectsTom-tom beater to spread the news of kingshipKing shows himself in public only one day a yearKing keeps lions as pets and a lion-tamer at his palaceKing does not eat much during years of famine in order not to forget the hungry