Motif
fearless night at the gallows
fearless_night_at_the_gallows
A motif of the Initiation and Transformative Ordeal family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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Household Tales by Brothers Grimm Household Tales by Brothers Grimm / CONTENTS; lines 746-797 confidence: high
The youth sets out with fifty thalers, repeats his wish to shudder, and meets a man who points him to a gallows described as a tree with seven men and tells him to wait there at night.
The youth sits beneath a gallows at night, handles the hanged dead, sleeps there, and reports no fear or shuddering.
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