64 motifs match “prisoner”  ·  back to the chapters

• Saint's bachall saves prisoner from execution. (Cf. D1277, V220.) D1391.2
• Magician appears as beggar or old man in order to free prisoners. D2031.4.3
• Angel causes earth to quake, releasing prisoners for saint. D2148.1
• Extraordinary nature phenomena at prisoner's miraculous release. F960.5
• Ogre keeps human prisoners. G334
• 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
• Tasks assigned prisoner so that he may escape punishment. H924
• Quest assigned prisoner. H1219.5
• Prisoners given choice between emasculation and blinding. J229.12
• 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
• Two prisoners use up their hour of grace disputing over road to take home. J2183.4
• "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
• 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
• 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
• Prisoner would be set free only after he has used up a pair of harmed shoes. M202.1[.1]
• 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
• 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
• War prisoners shut up between stones. Q433.13
• War prisoners fettered. Q434.2
• Prisoners put into pit filled with corpses in order to starve. Q465.2
• Payment for ransom disappears when prisoner is not released. Q552.18.3
• Groom as prisoner in his and giantess's bridal chamber. (Cf. R41.5.) R41.4
• Mistreatment of prisoners. R51
• Prisoners starved. R51.1
• Prisoners confined in chains. R51.2
• Prisoners mutilated. R51.3
• Prisoner massacred. R51.4
• Defiant prisoners refuse to accept grace even from their father unless it is granted them all. (Cf. M165.) R72
• Prisoner's sustenance from outside prison. (Cf. R81.) R84
• Magic rescue of prisoner from mound. (Cf. R45.) R112
• Three blasts on horn before sunrise to rescue prisoner from mound. R112.1
• Rescue of prisoners from fairy stronghold. R112.3
• Ants carry silk threads to prisoner, who makes rope and escapes. They have thread tied to their feet. R121.4
• Ariadne-thread. Prisoner given a thread as a clue to find his way out of the labyrinth in which he is being confined. R121.5
• Saint appears to captor in vision and demands prisoner's release. (Cf. R165.) R121.6.1
• Stream carries communication between prisoner and rescuer. R121.9
• Prisoner whirled away in blaze of fire. R122.1
• Prisoner carried off in cloud. (Cf. D2121.7.) R122.2
• Prisoners taken in war (enemy's messengers) hanged. S113.1.2
• Prisoners sacrificed to goddess. S260.1.3
• Prayers of family comfort prisoner. V53
• Bishop exchanges places with prisoner so as to have him return to his mother. W16
• All snakes but one placated by music. In snake den prisoner fails to placate one snake and loses his life. Z355