Fear test: staying in haunted house

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Fear test: staying in haunted house.

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

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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.

IrishCross, O'Suilleabhain 53, Beal XXI 319
EnglandBaughman
North CarolinaBrown Collection I 686
IndiaThompson-Balys
JapaneseIkeda
Eskimo (Greenland)Rasmussen II 73.
general Type 326

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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

Ghosts haunt buildings. (Cf. H1411.)

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