Disguised king punished by peasant. Beaten because he does not get up early enough. (King Alfred and the cakes.) — Mythoi

Motif

Disguised king punished by peasant. Beaten because he does not get up early enough. (King Alfred and the cakes.)

Society. · Royalty and nobility. · Kings. · view the constellation · filed as P15.1

Cited in the index

general *BP III 451 n. 1.

Within the index

Filed under Adventures of kings.

2 finer motifs beneath it

Disguised king taught courtesy by peasant King pardons person who has made mistake of addressing one of his courtiers as king

Filed beside it

King demands subject's wife for himself King loses his kingdom to impostor. (Cf. K1934.1.) King is cursed by disguised dwarf-smiths whose work he criticised King frees man sent by rival king to kill him. He sees bravery in the would-be assassin King descends to bottom of sea in glass barrel to study ways of fishes King himself works at brick building so that subjects cannot complain of enforced labor Subjects drive their ruler away after he has made them do forced labor

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