Motif
Midnight disappearance of apparitions
midnight_disappearance_of_apparitions
A motif of the Restless Dead, Haunting, and Vengeance family, within the sub-family Nocturnal Apparitions and Daylight or Cockcrow Limits. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
germanic
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Household Tales by Brothers Grimm Household Tales by Brothers Grimm / CONTENTS; lines 864-945 confidence: high
More men bring nine dead men's legs and two skulls for a game of nine-pins. The youth joins, rounds the skulls in a lathe, loses a little money, and at twelve everything vanishes; he tells the king he still has not shuddered.
On the second night everything vanishes when it strikes twelve, and on the third night the spirit disappears at twelve.
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