Fear test: serpent put in flour so that fearless youth kneads it into the dough — Mythoi

Motif

Fear test: serpent put in flour so that fearless youth kneads it into the dough.

Tests. · Other tests. · Tests of fear. · Fear test. · view the constellation · filed as H1407

Filed across the traditions

Icelandic Boberg.

Within the index

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

Filed beside 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 Test: going without fear through a wilderness filled with all manner of beasts

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