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Motif

Fear test: staying in haunted house where corpse drops piecemeal down chimney. Dead man's members call out to hero, "Shall we fall, or shall we not?"

Tests. · Other tests. · Tests of fear. · Fear test: staying in frightful place. · view the constellation · filed as H1411.1

Filed across the traditions
  • Cape Verde Islands Parsons MAFLS XV (1) 241 n. 1.
  • general *Type 326
  • general *Taylor MPh XVII 321 n. 1
  • general Scott "Marmion" note H
  • general BP I 30 n. 1
  • general Köhler-Bolte I 130
  • general Fb "menneske" II 577b
Within the index

Filed under Fear test: staying in haunted house.

1 finer motif beneath it
Fear test: staying in haunted house where horse carcass drops down chimney
Filed beside it
Fear test: staying in haunted house infested by cats Fear test: staying in enchanted castle at night where the devil gives a moral speech and prophesies Fear test: spending night in house (hall) haunted by demon (monster)
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Fear test: playing game with reassembled dead man. (Cf. H1411.1, H1421.)

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