The constellation
J2618 The sleeper answers for the dead man. A man falls asleep by a gallows. A company of wags come and invite the dead man on the gallows to accompany them. The sleeper awakes with a start and says, "I'll come at once." The wags flee in terror
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- Cowardly fool · J2600 entry
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- Person frightened into falling down a cliff · J2611 entry
- The attack on the hare (crayfish). Seven men make strenuous plans for the attack on the fierce animal. One screams with fright and the animal runs away. (Cf. J1736.1.) · J2612 entry
- Surrender to the rake. Fool steps on a rake and falls down crying, "I surrender!" · J2613 entry
- Fools frightened by stirring of an animal · J2614 entry
- Fright at the creaking of a wheelbarrow · J2615 entry
- The hawk frightened at the snipe's bill. The snipe: "It is a bill, but it is good for nothing (weak)." The hawk is no longer afraid · J2616 entry
- Afraid of his knees. A man awakes with his knees in the air. He thinks the knees are a lion and splits them with his axe · J2617 entry
- The dead girl frightens father and lover. The girl dies. The lover, thinking that she is asleep, talks to her. When he hears the father speak of her as dead he is frightened that he has talked to the dead. The father hears the lover talk and thinks that it is the girl's spirit. Both flee · J2621 entry
- Fool frightened by stirring of the wind. Falls on a knife and kills himself · J2622 entry
- Tailor puts on thimble as protection from slug · J2623 entry