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El tipo 326 - The Youth Who Wanted to Learn What Fear is. se ha identificado en los siguientes relatos:

Juan sin miedo, por Genoveva Navarro, de Tepatitlán de Morelos, Jalisco

 

 

Información sobre este tipo cuentístico: Description: A youth (fool) who does not know what fear is goes to find it [H1376.2]. He tries various frightening experiences without becoming afraid [H1400]: He is shaved by a barber-ghost [E571], spends the night under a gallows [H1415] or in a haunted castle [E281], plays with dead persons (bowling [E577.3], cards [E577.2]), etc. Through his fearless behavior he disenchants a castle (wins a treasure, a promised princess) [Q82]. The youth finally learns what fear is when cold water is thrown on him [H1441], fishes are put into his bed while he is asleep [H1441.1], birds fly into his face, his cut_off head is put on backwards, etc. Sometimes sexual: he finds a woman in his bed.

Combinations: This type is usually combined with episodes of one or more other types, esp. 300, and also 328, 330, 400, 505, 563, 569, 650A, 1061, 1159, 1535, and 1640.

Remarks:Documented in the 16th century by Straparola, Piacevoli notti (IV, 5).

(Hans-Jörg Uther. The types of International Folktales. A Classification and Bibliography, Based on the System of Antti Aarne and Stith Thompson. Helsinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia-Academia Scientiarum Fennica, 2004.)