Motif
execution interrupted by uncanny performance
execution_interrupted_by_uncanny_performance
A motif of the Enchanting Music and Sound Power family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
germanic
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Household Tales by Brothers Grimm SECOND STORY / FIRST STORY / SECOND STORY / THIRD STORY; lines 15707-15732 confidence: high
The Jew asks to be tied fast; the servant prepares his fiddle. With the first, second, and third scrapes, the judge, clerk, hangman, and others begin shaking, raising their legs, releasing the servant, and dancing.
While the servant is in an execution setting, the hangman lets go of him after the fiddle is played, and the judge offers him his life if he stops.
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