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• Night the period of gods, day the period of mankind. A189.17
• One sun-god for night; another for day (Osiris, Horus). A227.2
• Nine nights' riding from heaven (or earth) to hell. A658.1.1
• Sun's night journey. Around or under the earth. A722
• Sun's night journey in golden goblet. Helios' chariot is conveyed eastward at night in a golden goblet (or bed). A722.1
• Sun's night journey with reversed face. It returns from west to east by the same way that it came, but it turns its light side to the sky and leaves the earth in darkness. A722.2
• Sun's night journey: in land of dead. A722.3
• Sun at night closes doors. In evening goes home and shuts doors and windows. A722.4
• Sun at night lowers arm. The sun, a man, lies with arm uplifted. The shining comes from his armpits. When his arm is lowered the shining ceases. A722.5
• Sun bathes in stream of fire at night. A722.5.1
• Sun led through stream to cool off heat at night; otherwise might consume earth. A722.5.2
• Sun hidden at night because afraid to wander. A722.6
• Sun at night enters fissure between sky and earth. A722.7.1
• Sun worships God by night. A722.11
• Sun visits earth in form of black bull, caught by man, thus causing night. A728.3
• Cattle and sheep of the sun. 350 of each (= days and nights of the lunar year). A732.1
• Sun sister and moon brother. Brother visits sister at night. She marks him to identify him. He flees and she follows with flaming brand. She is sun and he the moon. A736.1.1
• Woman in moon's oven seen on clear nights. A751.8.4
• Moon as sun's representative at night. A756
• Five great roads of Ireland "discovered" on night of king's birth. A994
• Sun shining at night as sign of Doomsday. A1052.2
• Origin of night and day. A1170
• Origin of day: son of the night and the dawn. A1171.4
• Determination of night and day. After much discussion, the relative length of these divisions is determined. A1172
• Wallet containing night and day. A1172.2
• Night and day have steeds and chase each other. A1172.3
• Origin of night. A1174
• Night (darkness) in package. Released. A1174.1
• Why some nights are dark and some light. A1174.2
• Purchase of night. Originally no night. Culture hero goes to distant land and buys it. He introduces sleep, etc. Cock to crow for day. (Cf. B755, J2272.1.) A1174.3
• Night stolen and kept in jar. A1174.3.1
• Night caused by deity wrapping himself in dark mantle. A1174.4
• Origin of night and day – miscellaneous. A1179
• Origin of custom of catching fish by day as well as by night. A1457.2
• Origin of Hallowe'en as a mystic night. A1541.3.1
• Why a lamp must be lighted in a house at least every fortnight. A1599.14
• Creation of thrush (nightingale). A1912
• Creation of nightingale. A1912.2
• Nightingale borrows blindworm's eye. Each has one eye. Nightingale borrow's blindworm's and will not return it.(Cf. A2332.6.1.) A2241.5
• Nightingale hears boy call oxen: learns her song. (Cf. A2426.2.1.) A2272.1.1
• Bat, diver, and thornbush shipwrecked. Bat brought money, bush put on clothes, and diver brought leather. All shipwrecked. Diver is looking for his leather. Bush looks for his clothers and holds fast to all passers-by. Bat is abroad only at night to escape creditors. (Cf. A2471.4, A2491.1.) A2275.5.3
• How night-swallow got voice. A2421.1
• Nightingale's song. (Cf. A2272.1.1.) A2426.2.1
• Why animal howls (cries out) at night. A2427
• Why jackal cries in the night. A2427.1
• Why dog howls at night. A2427.2
• Why owl hoots at night. (Cf. A2426.2.17.) A2427.3
• Why fowls never shut their doors at night. A2433.4.6
• Why jackals make noise at night when seeking food. A2479.3
• Why bat flies by night. (Cf. A2275.5.3.) A2491.1
• Tiger cursed with short sight in day time: good sight only at night. A2491.4
• Friendship between leopard-cat and night-jar. A2493.7.1
• Hound flame of fire by night. B19.4.4
• Mermaid appears at midnight, entices people into water. B81.3.1
• Mermaid sits on knight's bedpost. B81.5
• Mermaid appears at midnight. B81.12.1
• Centipede plays at night with pearl. B109.2
• Dog that is hound by night and sheep by day. B182.1.4
• Dog that is hound by day and flame of fire by night. B182.1.5
• Animals speak, praising God, on the night of Christ's Nativity. B211.0.1
• Cows kneel in stable at midnight of Eve of Old Christmas. B251.1.2.3
• Wedding of lark and nightingale. B282.3.1
• Owls and crows dispute over merits of night or day vision. B299.2.1
• Helpful nightingale. B451.2
• Marriage to beast by day and man by night. (Cf. D621.) B640.1
• Snake milks cows at night. B765.4
• Giant whale cast ashore on the night of Christ's Nativity: "fifty men were on the upper parts of its head, and (there was) the limit of vision between each two of them. Such was the amount of ground which the animal occupied. B874.3.2
• Tabu: intercourse at night. C119.1.6
• Pregnant woman not to eat food baked overnight. C152.3.1
• Tabu: feasting by night at beginning of harvest. C237
• Tabu: speaking while gathering fernseed to make wishes come true, at midnight on Christmas Eve when fernseed ripens and falls immediately. C401.5
• Injunction: sleep where night overtakes you. Otherwise misfortune will come. C683
• Tabu: sleeping two nights in the same place until certain result is attained. C735.2.8
• Tabu: leaving capital every ninth night. C751.6
• Tabu: carrying food at night. C751.8
• Tabu: doing thing after sunset (nightfall). C752.1
• Tabu: using magic power after nightfall. C752.1.6
• Tabu: going out at night by oneself. C755.8
• Tabu: staying two nights in one place until certain event is brought to pass. C761.4.1
• Man transformed to green knight. D57.1
• Transformation: man to nightingale. D151.3
• Animal that is hound by day, sheep by night. D412.5.4
• 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
• One shape by day; another by night. D621.0.1
• Animal by day; man by night. D621.1
• Man by day; animal by night. D621.1.1
• Tree by day; man by night. D621.2
• Bush by day; woman by night. D621.2.1
• Flower by day; girl by night. D621.2.2
• Ugly by day; fair by night. D621.3
• Size of object transformed at night. D621.4
• Magic dog shrinks at night. D621.4.1
• Sheep by day; dog by night. D621.5
• Transformation to werwolf every Friday night. D622.1
• Transformation to snakes at night in order to sleep. (Cf. D621.1.1.) Done by otherworld people. D659.1
• Cat's paw cut off: woman's hand missing. A man spends a night in a haunted mill, where he cuts off a cat's paw. In the morning the miller's wife has lost her hand. (Cf. D142, D621.1.1.) D702.1.1
• Disenchantment by three nights' silence under punishment. D758.1
• 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