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- 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
- Ogre keeps human prisoners. G334
- Ogre tricked into carrying his prisoners home in bag on his own back. G561
- Prisoners given choice between emasculation and blinding. J229.12
- 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
- With help of captor's daughter, prisoners slay many of his soldiers at a banquet. (Cf. K781.) K811.1.1
- Prisoners released as celebration of king's success. P14.1
- 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
- Mistreatment of prisoners. R51
- Prisoners starved. R51.1
- Prisoners confined in chains. R51.2
- Prisoners mutilated. R51.3
- Defiant prisoners refuse to accept grace even from their father unless it is granted them all. (Cf. M165.) R72
- Rescue of prisoners from fairy stronghold. R112.3
- Prisoners taken in war (enemy's messengers) hanged. S113.1.2
- Prisoners sacrificed to goddess. S260.1.3