Chooses to die of old age. Criminal given choice of deaths. (Cf. J1181.)

Motif

Chooses to die of old age. Criminal given choice of deaths. (Cf. J1181.)

Society. · Government. · Law courts. · view the constellation · filed as P511.1

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.

general Hdwb. d. Märchens s. v. "Friedrich der Grosse" n. 58.

Within the index

Filed under Criminal allowed to choose his method of execution.

Filed beside it

Man condemned to lose his eye is allowed to choose the instrument

Travels with

Execution escaped by use of special permissions granted the condemned

Carried in tale types

Condemned Man Chooses How he Will Die · ATU 927B2 recorded variants

wander