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Motifs
- Youth will answer question only when king places him on throne: then youth calls executioners to punish cruel king. J1189.1
- Compassionate executioners. Slaves charged with killing (drowning) the infant heroine are touched by her "laughing smile" and put her in a calfshed (hollow tree), where she is found by cowherds, who rear her. K512.0.1
- Compassionate executioner: substituted child. The servant charged with sending the hero to executioners sends his own child instead. K512.2.2
- Man asks to be beheaded standing in tank of water. He ducks and executioners kill each other. K558.2