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• Gods imprisoned. A173.2
• God speaks to saint in prison. A182.3.0.2
• 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
• Grateful dragon saves hero and rescues him from prison. B11.6.1.2
• Animals help imprisoned master. B544.1
• Saint's bachall saves prisoner from execution. (Cf. D1277, V220.) D1391.2
• Magic object frees person from prison. D1395
• Escape from prison by use of magic fiddle. (Cf. D1233.) D1395.1
• Escape from prison by use of magic tablecloth. (Cf. D1153.1.) D1395.2
• Escape from prison by use of magic purse. (Cf. D1192.) D1395.3
• Escape from prison by use of charm (formula). (Cf. D1273.) D1395.6
• Escape from prison by use of magic hymn. (Cf. D1275.3.) D1395.7
• Magic object imprisons person. D1417
• Saint opens prison door by prayer. D1766.1.7
• Magician appears as beggar or old man in order to free prisoners. D2031.4.3
• Imprisoned cleric comes to answer saint's prayers in ritual. D2074.2.5.1
• Imprisoning by magic. D2078
• Witch made to enter boulder magically and imprisoned therein. D2078.1
• Angel causes earth to quake, releasing prisoners for saint. D2148.1
• Imprisoning by magic. (Cf. R40.) D2177
• 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
• Extraordinary nature phenomena at prisoner's miraculous release. F960.5
• Witches vanish from prison. G249.9
• 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 keeps human prisoners. G334
• Ogre imprisons victim. G422
• Ogre imprisons victim in drum. G422.1
• Ogre imprisoned in his own house. G514.2
• Ogre imprisoned in cave. G514.2.1
• Ogre deceived into releasing prisoner. G560
• Ogre tricked into carrying his prisoners home in bag on his own back. G561
• Recognition by smile. Sultan frees prisoner when he recognizes him as a former aid. H79.4
• Gardener's son to marry princess if he remains in prison twelve years. H317.3
• 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
• Tasks assigned prisoner so that he may escape punishment. H924
• Quest assigned prisoner. H1219.5
• Crab would rather be killed outright than imprisoned and starved. J216.3
• Prisoners given choice between emasculation and blinding. J229.12
• Care against future imprisonment. J648
• 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
• Man in cold consoles himself thinking of rich men in hell or prison. J883.2
• Prisoner has drunk water furnished by the king and thus becomes king's guest. Spared. J1183.1
• Ears not to be cut off a second time. Executioner discovers that the prisoner's ears are of stucco, having been clipped for a previous offense. J1184.2
• 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
• His last request: a red cap. A man about to be hanged keeps asking for his red cap which he has left in prison. He has no thought of his real peril. J2174.1
• Two prisoners use up their hour of grace disputing over road to take home. J2183.4
• 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
• "Have we leave to go?" Two prisoners are made stable boys on their promise not to escape secretly. Before horse race starts they ask: "Do we have your leave to go?" They go home. K475.2
• False alarm of robbery causes cheated man to be imprisoned. K484.3
• Adulteress escapes prison disguised as an old woman. K521.4.5
• Respite from death until prisoner has finished drinking his glass. It is left half finished. K551.2
• Respite from death until prisoner is healed by magic object. K551.15
• Prisoner released on promise to wed guard (captor). K612
• Prisoner released on promise of life-long allegiance. K613
• Confederate cuts rope almost in two so that prisoner breaks it and flees. K647
• Rescuer disguised as officer gains custody of prisoner. K649.2
• Confederate in disguise as "troll" frightens king's men, while his daughter helps prisoner to escape. (Cf. F455.) K649.7.3
• Confederate causes confusion so that prisoner can escape. K649.9
• Prisoner escapes by means of wolf which he lures near by smearing honey on the feet. K649.10
• Prisoner kills his watchers who enter to torture him. Escapes. K655
• Deception into magic bag which closes on prisoner. K711.1
• Deception into entering box (or prison). K714
• Victim tricked into prison and kept there. K714.1
• With help of captor's daughter, prisoners slay many of his soldiers at a banquet. (Cf. K781.) K811.1.1
• Dupe persuaded to take prisoner's place in a sack: killed. The bag is to be thrown into the sea. The trickster keeps shouting that he does not want to go to heaven (or marry the princess); the dupe gladly substitutes for him. (Cf. K714.2.1.) K842
• Dupe persuaded to take prisoner's place suspended in air. K842.1
• Dupe persuaded to take prisoner's place in pit. K842.2
• Jackal eating into elephant's dead body becomes a prisoner when it dries up; is released when storm moistens hide. K1022.1.1
• 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
• Impostors throw hero into prison. K1931.5
• Only the youngest of group of imprisoned women refuses to eat her newborn child. L71
• Proud king humbled when imprisoned by enemies. L416.1
• Dream (prophecy) of future greatness causes banishment (imprisonment). L425
• Prisoner would be set free only after he has used up a pair of harmed shoes. M202.1[.1]
• Bottle wherein jinn is imprisoned inadvertently opened and jinn escapes to kill his captor. N339.17
• Escaping prisoner falls by accident onto tiger's back and is carried away. N392.1
• Sign of prisoner's reprieve changed by wind. A flag to be flown in certain way, but wind catches it just at the wrong moment so that prisoner is executed. N394.1
• King on hunt is taken prisoner. N771.1
• Prisoners released as celebration of king's success. P14.1
• Prince imprisoned as hostage for safety from king. P34
• Brother unjustly imprisoned by brother. P251.5.5
• Competition in friendship: prisoner and jailor. Officer in charge of prison offers to let his friend escape, though his own life will be forfeited. The friend refuses; tells officer to let king think he has escaped and if the king demands his life the officer can produce the prisoner. King hears of the generosity and forgives the prisoner. P315.1
• Nobleman forces escaping prisoner to accept his hospitality. Intercedes for his pardon. P322.1
• Punishment for imprisoning person under holy protection. Q227.1.1
• Punishment: imprisonment in white-hot iron house. Q414.2
• Punishment: imprisonment. Q433
• Imprisonment for adultery. (Cf. Q241.) Q433.1
• Defeated giants imprisoned in lower world. Q433.2
• Zeus has embassy of dogs imprisoned for fouling his court. (Cf. Q322.) Q433.3
• Imprisonment for imposture. (Cf. Q262.) Q433.4
• Imprisonment for attempted seduction. (Cf. Q243.2.1.) Q433.5