μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Fear test: staying in haunted house.

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

Filed across the traditions
  • Irish Cross, O'Suilleabhain 53, Beal XXI 319
  • England Baughman
  • North Carolina Brown Collection I 686
  • India Thompson-Balys
  • Japanese Ikeda
  • Eskimo (Greenland) Rasmussen II 73.
  • general Type 326
Within the index

Filed under Fear test: staying in frightful place.

4 finer motifs beneath it
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?" 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)
Filed beside it
Fear test: spending night in church Fear test: staying under gallows at night Fear test: spending night by grave Fear test: taking boy to frightful enemy's tent
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Ghosts haunt buildings. (Cf. H1411.)

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