1. Two similar cases of feigning a fatal illness to lull a rival into complacency. The first appears to have actually occurred in the Golden Horde, while the second was fictitious, although its oral description apparently circulated within Amir Timur’s domain.
17. that they made sure that Temir Bey would die’.
Archbishop John then goes on to recount how the trusting Amir Husayn joyfully disbanded his army and was unable to offer adequate resistance to Amir Timur, who suddenly arrived with his troops,