| 326 | The Youth Who Wanted to Learn What Fear Is | Various episodes: in the church tower, under the gallows, etc. Cf. Types 1159, 1160.
I. Quest: To Meet Fear. A youth who does not know what fear is goes out to find it.
II. Experiences. He tries various frightful experiences:
(a) playing cards with devil in church; (b) stealing clothes from a ghost; (c) staying at night under a gallows, (d) in a cemetery, or (e) in a haunted house where a dead man's members fall down the chimney; (f) vanquishing ghost like cats; (g) playing ninepins with a reassembled dead man; (h) being shaved by barber-ghost; (i) cutting devil's finger nails.
III. Learning Fear. After his wedding he learns fear when cold water is thrown on him or eels are put down his back while he is asleep. | , 326, 326A*, 326B* | H1376.2.2., H1411., H1441., K335.1.10.1.10. |