33 motifs match “nights”  ·  back to the chapters

• Nine nights' riding from heaven (or earth) to hell. A658.1.1
• Cattle and sheep of the sun. 350 of each (= days and nights of the lunar year). A732.1
• Woman in moon's oven seen on clear nights. A751.8.4
• Why some nights are dark and some light. A1174.2
• Tabu: sleeping two nights in the same place until certain result is attained. C735.2.8
• Tabu: staying two nights in one place until certain event is brought to pass. C761.4.1
• Disenchantment by three nights' silence under punishment. D758.1
• Three days and three nights seem one hour as saint preaches. (Cf. Z71.1.1.) D2011.1.2
• Knights in wild hunt. E501.2.1
• Wild hunt appears on stormy nights. E501.11.1.4
• Girl goes to see her fairy lover on certain nights. F301.7
• Knights drink from a huge nine-gallon cup. F531.4.3
• Person sleeps for three days and nights. F564.3.2
• Sun shines for twelve days and nights after death of holy person. F961.1.5.1
• Shower of blood for three days and three nights. F962.4.1
• Saint preaches for three days and three nights. F1086
• Riddle: tree with twelve branches, each with thirty leaves, black and white. Year, month, days and nights. H721.1
• Riddle: tree with leaves white on one side and black on other. Year made up of nights and days. H721.2
• Riddle: why are there more days than nights? (The moon turns some nights into days.) H772
• Test: sleeping by princess three nights without looking at her or disturbing her. H1472
• Not to sleep for three successive nights. The sleepy man: "I am just thinking, that on earth there are more crooked trees than straight ones ... more hills than plains ... more water than land ..." The devil goes to ascertain these things, meanwhile the man sleeps. Unsuccessful imitation by another man. K216.3
• Thief dressed half white, half black. His father's corpse is guarded by twenty knights in black and twenty in white. By disguising he steals back the corpse. K311.0.1
• Prophet speaks six nights each year. M301.0.2
• Prophecy: end of Round Table for Arthur's knights. M356.5
• Noblemen (knights). P50
• Surviving blood brother to watch three nights in grave-mound. P312.3
• Feast (hospitality) endures for three days and three nights. P634.1
• Feast (hospitality) endures for seven days and seven nights. P634.2
• Boy reaches into bird's nest for pigeon's eggs. A stone in the nest holds his hand for three days and nights. He is finally released by prayers. Q285.1.2.1
• Woman entertains two lovers on alternate nights. They expose the deception and scorn her in public. T72.4
• Lover allowed to sleep with woman first few nights after her marriage to another. T161.1
• No great knights now because no great kings. U211
• Formula: three days and three nights. Z71.1.1