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- God of world of the dead demands that men die so he will have subjects. (Cf. A487) A1335.11
- Magic object furnishes slaves (subjects). (Cf. D1025.8.) D1476
- Magic egg furnishes slaves (subjects for chief or king, etc.). (Cf. D1470.1.8.) D1476.2
- Task: letting king hear something that neither he nor his subjects have ever heard. (Reads a letter from a foreign king demanding a loan.) H1182
- Obedience of king's subjects tested by willingness to allow spear to be carried crosswise into houses. Way must be hewn. H1557.5
- Command would become permanent. A ruler receives gifts from his subjects and later demands them as he due. The fool sets the nobleman's bed on fire. When the nobleman commands him to put the fire out he refuses, since he would ever afterward have to be putting out fires. J1521.3
- Breaking the glassware to prevent others from doing so. A king thus removes temptation from his subjects. J2522
- Jackal escapes by telling farmer he is jackal king and will call upon his subjects. K547.4
- King of fishes eats his subjects as they pay him their respects day and night. K815.17
- God punishes David for his pride in the number of his subjects. An angel is sent to kill his people. Desists only when David repents. L415
- Man captured by pirates is maimed, crippled, blinded. He is patient through it all. Finally he is elected ruler by his dead master's subjects. N251.1
- King in disguise to learn secrets of his subjects. N467
- Four duties of king to subjects: devotion, protection of subjects, justice, and increase of his kingdom. P12.6.1
- King goes in disguise at night to observe his subjects. P14.19
- King himself works at brick building so that subjects cannot complain of enforced labor. P15.7
- Subjects drive their ruler away after he has made them do forced labor. P15.8
- Only 700 subjects of under-king required to serve under overlord on any one hosting. P551.8.1
- Princes banished as punishment for lewd conduct with female subjects. (Cf. Q243.) Q431.5.3
- Sultan's daughter demanded by giant ogre as price for letting his subjects alone. S222.4
- Ruler who is jealous of his subjects' happiness prohibits their games. W181.7