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Prevuius group

Group No. 146


Letter

P. Society

Group No.

P0 – P99

Group name

Royalty and nobility

Description

P10. Kings. Jewish: *Neuman.
 
P11.2. Winner of contest to be king. *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 269; Jewish: *Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys.
 
P12.2.1. Tyrannical king. Jewish: *Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys.
 
P12.10. King is superior to all in strength, beauty, largeness, etc., and usually has victory. Icelandic: *Boberg; Jewish: *Neuman.
 
P12.14. Modesty of king. Jewish: *Neuman.
 
P13.5.1. Anointing of kings. Jewish: *Neuman.
 
P13.7. Royal anniversaries. Jewish: *Neuman.
 
P13.8. King must never be present at funeral. Jewish: *Neuman.
 
P13.9. Royal perquisites.
 
P13.9.1. King has first choice in booty. Jewish: Neuman.
 
P13.9.2. Fifth of the land‘s production belongs to king. Jewish: *Neuman.
 
P14.21. King shows himself in public only one day a year. Jewish: *Neuman.
 
P14.22. King keeps lions as pets and a lion-tamer at his palace. Jewish: Neuman.
 
P14.23. King does not eat much during years of famine in order not to forget the hungry. Jewish: *Neuman.
 
P15.3. King loses his kingdom to impostor. (Cf. K1934.1.) Jewish: Neuman.
 
P15.7. King himself works at brick building so that subjects cannot complain of enforced labor. Jewish: *Neuman.
 
P16.9. King’s coffin sunk into river. Jewish: *Neuman.
 
P17.8. Kingship given to younger brother. (Cf. P17.10.) Irish myth: Cross; Icelandic: Boberg; Jewish: Neuman.
 
P18.2. Limited number of wives for polygamous king. Jewish: *Neuman.
 
P21.1. Queen as intercessor with king. Greek: Odyssey VI 313; Jewish: Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys.

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