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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
Episodes
- Faust: A Tragedy · First Part, Scene 1 (Night)
- Faust: A Tragedy · First Part, Scene 19 (Night — Valentine's Death)
- Faust: A Tragedy · First Part, Scene 21 (Walpurgis-Night)
- Faust: A Tragedy · First Part, Scene 22 (Walpurgis-Night's Dream)
- Faust: A Tragedy · First Part, Scene 24 (Night — Open Field)
- Four Plays (The Tempest, A Midsummer-Night's Dream, The Winter's Tale, King Lear) — University Press Shakespeare, ed. Sidney Lee · A Midsummer-Night's Dream Act 1
- Four Plays (The Tempest, A Midsummer-Night's Dream, The Winter's Tale, King Lear) — University Press Shakespeare, ed. Sidney Lee · A Midsummer-Night's Dream Act 2
- Four Plays (The Tempest, A Midsummer-Night's Dream, The Winter's Tale, King Lear) — University Press Shakespeare, ed. Sidney Lee · A Midsummer-Night's Dream Act 3
- Four Plays (The Tempest, A Midsummer-Night's Dream, The Winter's Tale, King Lear) — University Press Shakespeare, ed. Sidney Lee · A Midsummer-Night's Dream Act 4
- Four Plays (The Tempest, A Midsummer-Night's Dream, The Winter's Tale, King Lear) — University Press Shakespeare, ed. Sidney Lee · A Midsummer-Night's Dream Act 5
- Tales of the North American Indians · Tale 13 XIII. DETERMINATION OF NIGHT AND DAY®
- Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None · Chapter 31 XXXI. THE NIGHT-SONG.
Tale types
- ATU 130 The Animals in Night Quarters
- ATU 1337C The Long Night
- ATU 1527* Night Lodging Requisitioned (previously The Three Wanderers Seek Night Lodgings)
- ATU 1544 The Man who Got a Night's Lodging
- ATU 1562C* Miser Eats at Night
- ATU 1686 The Wedding Night
- ATU 1842C* The Clergyman's Nights
- ATU 185 The Nightcap Dealer and the Monkeys
- ATU 1856 Children by Day and by Night
- ATU 1927 The Cold May Night