The Husband Who Was to Mind the House the end of the rope to himself. He went to grind grain for the porridge, but the cow fell off, and because he had run the rope through the chimney, it dragged him up. The wife returned and cut the rope so the cow came down but she found her husband with his head stuck in the pot. The Husband Who Was to Mind the House The Husband Who Was to Mind the House is a Norwegian fairy tale collected by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe in their "Norske Folkeeventyr". It is Aarne-Thompson type 1408 The man who does
The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was ring the church bell, he sent him one midnight to ring it and came after him, dressed as a ghost. The boy demanded an explanation. When the sexton did not answer, the boy, unafraid, pushed him down the stairs, breaking his leg. His horrified father turned him out of house, so the boy set out to learn how to shudder. He complained whenever he could, "If only I could shudder!" One man advised him to stay the night beneath the gallows, where seven hanged men were still hanging. He did so, and set a fire for the night. When the