Fear test. A person is put to various tests in the attempt to make him show fear — Mythoi

Motif

Fear test. A person is put to various tests in the attempt to make him show fear.

Tests. · Other tests. · Tests of fear. · Fear test. · view the constellation · filed as H1400

Filed across the traditions

Irish myth *Cross
Missouri French Carrière
Japanese Ikeda.
general *Type 326
general *BP I 22ff.

Within the index

5 finer motifs beneath it

Deity assumes frightful guises to frighten child Fear test: behaving as if enemy is coming in order to see who will flee and who will stay and fight Suitor tested by apparent threats to his person Fear test: serpent put in flour so that fearless youth kneads it into the dough Test: going without fear through a wilderness filled with all manner of beasts

Carried in tale types

The Youth Who Wanted to Learn What Fear Is · ATU 326 1 recorded variant

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