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- God makes man's hand rigid so he can no longer torment captive. A185.2.2
- Animal rescues captive. B544
- Magic object as ransom of captive. D859.8
- Saint's bachall enables captive to escape. (Cf. D1277, V220.) D1395.4
- Magic ring enables captive to escape. (Cf. D1076.) D1395.5
- Magic centipede enables captive to make hole in wall. D1395.9
- Letter from captive prince asking for help flies through the air to addressee. D1601.32.1
- Blood stops flowing from wound when captives escape. E761.1.13
- Fairies take revenge on mortals who hold their king captive. F361.7
- Mortals as captives in fairyland. F375
- Mountain-men chain captive peasant. F460.4.4.2
- Cannibal cuts captive's finger to test fatness. G82.1
- Captive sticks out bone instead of finger when cannibal tries to test his fatness. G82.1.1
- Cannibal sharpens knife to kill captive. G83
- Ogress whets teeth to kill captive. G83.1
- Ogress has twenty captive princesses in cave. G334.1
- Ogre decapitates captive princess before he leaves palace; resuscitates her on return. G335
- Ogre abducts new-born babe, keeping it captive for seven years. G442.1
- Giant killed by his own bucket of death water; captive princess tells him to wash. G527
- Captive woman in ogre's house helps hero. G535