54 motifs match “imprisoned”  ·  back to the chapters

• Gods imprisoned. A173.2
• Hoarded game released. Animals are kept imprisoned by malevolent creature. Released by culture hero. A1421
• Owl as watchman goes to sleep: does not see by day. He is placed as watchman of wren who is imprisoned in a mousehole. (Cf. A2332.6.6.) A2233.3
• Animals help imprisoned master. B544.1
• Imprisoned cleric comes to answer saint's prayers in ritual. D2074.2.5.1
• Witch made to enter boulder magically and imprisoned therein. D2078.1
• Demons imprisoned by magic. D2177.1.1
• Demon imprisoned in pomegranate. D2177.2
• Evil spirits imprisoned in stone. D2177.3
• Souls of dead imprisoned in tree. E755.4.1
• Fairy imprisoned in tree. (Cf. F386.5.) F386.1
• Fairy imprisoned as punishment. (Cf. F386.1.) F386.5
• Thumbling imprisoned in a sausage. F535.1.1.8
• Devil repays a kindness: returns coat lent him and brings the one who had shown him kindness back home when imprisoned. G303.22.1
• Ogre imprisoned in his own house. G514.2
• Ogre imprisoned in cave. G514.2.1
• Suitor test: to get to imprisoned princess in a year's time. H322.2
• Formerly I was daughter, now I am mother; I have a son who was the husband of my mother. (Girl has nursed her imprisoned father through a crack in the prison wall.) H807
• Crab would rather be killed outright than imprisoned and starved. J216.3
• Imprisoned musician defends himself. Has been imprisoned because the king did not like the way the musician looked at him. After a year the king returns as a conqueror and sees musician. The latter says that he saw the king's conquests in a vision and was blessing him when he looked at him. The musician is honored. J814.1
• Unjust action brought to inform king of judge's malfeasance. Husband is imprisoned and wife detained by judge. She accuses her husband of having stolen her. J1675.1.2
• The priest as surety. Feasters are imprisoned because of failure to pay for the food. They name the priest as surety and are released. The priest has been told that the host is possessed and agrees to come to heal him in two weeks. The host loses the money. K455.5
• False alarm of robbery causes cheated man to be imprisoned. K484.3
• Rat leaves serpent behind, through spared to rescue him. The two are imprisoned together in a sevenfold cloth covering. The serpent refrains from eating the rat so that the latter can gnaw the cloth for them. The rat gnaws his own way out and leaves the serpent. K1182
• Importunate lover imprisoned and starved: later given choice of lady or food. Chooses food. K1218.1.3.1
• Only the youngest of group of imprisoned women refuses to eat her newborn child. L71
• Proud king humbled when imprisoned by enemies. L416.1
• Bottle wherein jinn is imprisoned inadvertently opened and jinn escapes to kill his captor. N339.17
• Prince imprisoned as hostage for safety from king. P34
• Brother unjustly imprisoned by brother. P251.5.5
• Defeated giants imprisoned in lower world. Q433.2
• Zeus has embassy of dogs imprisoned for fouling his court. (Cf. Q322.) Q433.3
• Priest imprisoned for incontinence. (Cf. Q243.) Q433.6
• Earl hunting in the king's forest imprisoned. Q433.10
• Undesired suitor's messengers imprisoned. Q433.11
• Enemy host imprisoned by earthen walls thrown up by hero's chariot wheels. R5.1
• Messenger of Death imprisoned. R6
• Grain and pulse in human form imprisoned by wicked king. R9.2
• Fire-maiden imprisoned in iron house. R9.4
• Cow imprisoned until it promises not to eat men. R9.5
• Imprisoned king's son released when he promises to be a faithful subject and pay tax. R74.3.1
• Woman suckles imprisoned relative through prison wall. R81
• Princess rescued from temple where she is imprisoned. R111.2.4
• House burned (torn) down to deliver man imprisoned in it. R121.3
• Wives change clothes with their imprisoned husbands when allowed to visit them. Husbands escape. R152.3
• Demon imprisoned in tree released. R181.1
• Children enticed into grain pot and imprisoned. S337
• Cat and dog as guards of imprisoned beauty. (Cf. B576.1.) T50.1.4
• Imprisoned virgin to prevent knowledge of men (marriage, impregnation). Usually kept in a tower. (Danaë.) T381
• Wife imprisoned in tower (house) to preserve chastity. T381.0.2
• [First Edition: T381.2. Guardians of imprisoned virgin put to sleep while man enters to her.] T381.2[1st ed.]
• Imprisoned miner kept alive by masses performed by his wife. V41.1
• Death imprisoned by a soldier in a magic knapsack, bottle or nutshell. Z111.1.1
• Hero "son of seven mothers". Seven mothers each with a child imprisoned. Six eat their children to keep from starving. Seventh does not. He rescues all the mothers and becomes hero. Z215