21 motifs match “execute”  ·  back to the chapters

• Angels created to execute God's will. A52.0.1
• Animal executed for crime. B275.1
• Horse executed for crime. B275.1.1
• Fox executed for thefts. B275.1.2
• Wolf executed for thefts. B275.1.3
• Blood of executed man as remedy. D1500.1.7.3.1
• Ghost an unjustly executed man. Real murderer found. E234.4
• Darkness comes in daytime in order to save life of maiden about to be executed. F965.1
• Witch executed for engaging in witchcraft. G291
• Execution: man induced to kill self. King may not execute Brahmin, but gets him drunk and brings about his death. J1181.0.1
• Execution evaded by using three wishes. King ordains that guest who turns his plate shall be executed, but orders that anyone so condemned shall have three wishes granted. One of the wishes: to have all blinded who saw him turn the plate. He is freed. J1181.1
• King substitutes for condemned man when he is told that whoever is executed that day is destined to become king in his next birth. J1189.3
• Innocent man executed because his neck fits the noose (or the like). J2233.1
• Youths execute a series of clever thefts. K305.3
• Substitute for execution obtained by trickery. Report that man executed just then will be king in heaven. K841.1
• King sends regrets for death of man he has ordered executed. K2098
• Sign of prisoner's reprieve changed by wind. A flag to be flown in certain way, but wind catches it just at the wrong moment so that prisoner is executed. N394.1
• Hero's (heroine's) identity established as he (she) is on the point of being executed. N686
• King orders man whose neck the rope will fit to be executed. P14.18
• Criminal may fight against odds rather than be judicially executed. P513
• Ravisher is forced to marry girl and then is executed. Q244.0.1