30 motifs match “midnight”  ·  back to the chapters

• Mermaid appears at midnight, entices people into water. B81.3.1
• Mermaid appears at midnight. B81.12.1
• Cows kneel in stable at midnight of Eve of Old Christmas. B251.1.2.3
• Tabu: speaking while gathering fernseed to make wishes come true, at midnight on Christmas Eve when fernseed ripens and falls immediately. C401.5
• Devil takes man waiting for water to turn to wine at midnight on Old Christmas Eve. D477.1.1
• Woman loses eye when she goes to well at midnight on Old Christmas Eve when the water turns to wine. D477.1.2
• Disenchantment by taking key from serpent's mouth at midnight. The disenchanter is to take the key (three keys) from the mouth of the woman in serpent form with his own mouth. D759.1
• Disenchantment by naked virgin undergoing frightful journey at midnight. She must come naked and alone on St. John's night between twelve and one, climb the castle walls, and enter the treasure chamber. D759.3
• Disenchantment at midnight after owl hoots three times. D791.1.8
• Stone moves at midnight. D1641.2.4
• Persons born at midnight can see ghosts. E421.1.1.1
• Burial of corpse at midnight to prevent walking. E431.19
• Ghost laid at midnight. E459.5
• Mass (church service) of the dead. Held at midnight. E492
• Wild hunt appears at midnight. E501.11.1.1
• Ghost walk at midnight. E587.5
• Water-spirits must be in water before midnight; delay is punished with death indicated by blood in water. F420.3.4.1
• Tree maidens bathe at midnight in lake. F441.2.1.4
• In dwarf land sunrise is at midnight. F451.4.6
• Knockers hold midnight mass deep in mines on Christmas Eve. (Cf. E492.) F456.1.2.3.1
• Flower only to be found at midnight. F814.3
• Apples at Christmas. Tree bears apples only at Christmas. Blossoms at midnight and is full of apples by morning. F971.5.2
• Tree blossoms at midnight on Twelfth Night. F971.5.2.1
• Person gets witch power by walking twelve times around a church backward at midnight. G224.8
• Devil appears at midnight. G303.6.1.1
• Suitor brings own lamp. Mother of girl tells suitor that she cannot have him burning her midnight oil. The next night he brings his own lamp and a can of oil, tells her he will stay all night if he wishes. J1575.1
• Man goes to well at midnight on Old Christmas to see water turned into wine. Just as it turns into wine the devil takes him, or injures him. M211.1.1
• Treasure reveals itself only on Christmas at midnight (or Christmas Eve). N541.1
• Between midnight and cockcrow best time for unearthing treasure. N555.1
• Penance: holding midnight mass until someone will make responses. Q521.6