• Why trees do not talk. All ask to be spared when man begins cutting them. A2791.1
• Lion spared mouse: mouse grateful. Later releases lion from net. (Cf. B363.) B371.1
• Church spared in flood because of prayers. D2143.2.1
• Dead grateful for having been spared indignity to corpse. Kind man has given it burial. E341.1.1
• House of dwarf's friend spared in fire. F451.5.1.21
• Hero (heroine) spared for his (her) beauty. F1088.1
• Prisoner has drunk water furnished by the king and thus becomes king's guest. Spared. J1183.1
• Prayer over the underdone hen. A guest is seen uttering a prayer before an underdone hen at the table. "She must be a goddess turned into a hen, for she has been over the fire and spared." J1342
• Water-monster, trying to pull horse into water, is dragged to house where he begs for his life and is spared. K1022.2.1
• 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
• Calf pities draft ox: is taken to slaughter, ox spared. L456
• Vow not to deceive the man who spared one's life. M168.1
• Life spared in return for life-long service. M234
• Life spared in return for poetic mead. M234.1
• Life spared for bringing a dreaded enemy without weapon. M234.2
• Monster grateful to hero for being spared becomes helpful. N812.5
• Life spared as reward. Q151
• Faithful old dog threatened with death proves his worth and is spared. Q151.4
• Life spared as reward for hospitality. (Cf. Q45.4.) Q151.6
• Life spared as reward for uprightness. (Cf. Q54.) Q151.7

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