# Phobetor — Jurgen character guide

> Phobetor in Jurgen by James Branch Cabell.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** old Phobetor, Uncle Phobetor

**First appearance:** 0041-xxxvii-invention-of-the-lovely-vampire

## Who they are

A personification of fear who appears in the dream-like realms Jurgen visits.

## Relationships

### [Jurgen](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/jurgen_se/characters/jurgen)

_psychological_

Phobetor is a god of nightmares who torments Jurgen with terrifying visions and psychological trials.

### [Jurgen](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/jurgen_se/characters/jurgen)

_psychological_

Phobetor is a god of nightmares who torments Jurgen with terrifying visions and psychological trials.

### [Jurgen](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/jurgen_se/characters/jurgen)

_psychological_

Phobetor is a god of nightmares who torments Jurgen with terrifying visions and psychological trials.

## In the story

### [Economics of King Jurgen](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/jurgen_se/chapters/xxx-economics-of-king-jurgen)

Jurgen tricks him out of a gray magic using a cheese, three beetles, and a gimlet.

### [The Fall of Pseudopolis](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/jurgen_se/chapters/xxxi-the-fall-of-pseudopolis)

Referenced as Uncle Phobetor, who would turn Jurgen into a boar-pig if he entered the Woods.

### [XLVII: The Vision of Helen](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/jurgen_se/chapters/xlvii-the-vision-of-helen)

Referenced as the one through whose gray art Jurgen once glimpsed Helen.

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