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?"

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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

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Scholars’ trail — 7references

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

Cape Verde IslandsParsons 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

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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

Fear test: playing game with reassembled dead man. (Cf. H1411.1, H1421.)

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