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- Disenchantment by naked virgin undergoing frightful journey at midnight. She must come naked and alone on St. John's night between twelve and one, climb the castle walls, and enter the treasure chamber. D759.3
- Trolls frightful. F455.2.6
- Deity assumes frightful guises to frighten child. H1401
- Chief of dead assumes frightful guises to frighten visitors. H1401.1
- Ogress assumes frightful guises to frighten messengers. H1401.2
- Fear test: staying in frightful place. H1410
- Fear test: taking boy to frightful enemy's tent. H1418
- Vigil for dead father: youngest son alone endures frightful experiences. Ceiling, floors, and walls knock together. H1462.1
- Frightful meal as test of leadership. H1567.1
- Things thought at night to be other frightful object. J1789
- Vow to watch at frightful place all night. M156
- Frightful meal as punishment. Q478
- Punishment: meeting frightful apparition. (Ghost, mysterious animal, devil.) Q552.11
- Old robber frees his three sons: relates frightful adventures. In order to free them he must relate three adventures, each more frightful than the last. R153.3.3
- Frightful meal. (Cf. Q478.) S183
- Continuous prayer sustains man through frightful vigil. V52.2