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* In ''Nanatsuiro Drops'', Tsuwabuki turns into a sheep plushie after sunset and changes back after sunrise. However, when the moon is full, he stays a plushie for a whole day, and during a new moon he stays human all day.

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* In the ''DungeonsAndDragons'' campaign world ''{{Ravenloft}}'', adding a fanciful duration or an escape hatch when laying a curse makes it ''much'' more likely to take hold.
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Magic doesn't obey human-made timepieces, but follows the cycles of nature and the movement of the spheres. A spell's duration, then, extends from sunrise to sunset, or during a phase in the lunar cycle, or some other vaguely fairytale measurement of time such as one's DangerousSixteenthBirthday or by following a celestial zodiac.

* In the silent film ''TheGolem'', the Rabbi can only create the Golem while a certain astronomical constellation occurs. The occurence of another constellation supposedly causes the Golem to rebel.

* ''{{Gargoyles}}'' They are stone during the day and flesh at night, in the film they are also cursed into dormancy "Until the Castle Rises Above the Clouds".

* ''ChangelingTheLost'': if you're lucky, contracts work until sunup or sundown, whichever happens first; or for free if you invoke FoodChains.

* ''VampireTheMasquerade'' and ''VampireTheRequiem'' both have a few powers, usually BloodMagic, that end at sunrise.

# Magic Has Dramatic Units of Time: Sunrise, sunset, [[WhenTheClockStrikesTwelve twelfth gong of the clock-tower]], the phases of the moon, birthdays, saint's days, Sabbath, etc. Which invokes all kinds of FridgeLogic, such as, what would use something so inaccurate as when the sun sets, especially since the world is round and there's always a sunset somewhere?
# [[FantasticFragility Magic Has Its Rules]]: Somehow setting limits such as a "RuleOfThree" or "Until the Castle Rises Above the Clouds" or "Until the Sun Sets" makes the power work better or at all. [[MagicAIsMagicA So whatever happens needs to happen within the rules instead of at one's convenience]]. If a rules lawyer is around this sometimes leads to NoManOfWomanBorn.

-->'''RobertEHoward''', ''People of the Black Circle''

# [[FantasticFragility Magic Has Its Rules:]] somehow setting limits such as a "RuleOfThree" or "Until the Castle Rises Above the Clouds" or "Until the Sun Sets" makes the power work better or at all. [[MagicAIsMagicA So whatever happens needs to happen within the rules instead of at one's convenience]]. If a rules lawyer is around this sometimes leads to NoManOfWomanBorn.

* ''{{Gargoyles}}'' They are stone during the day and flesh at night.

# [[FantasticFragility Magic Has Its Rules:]] somehow setting limits such as a "RuleOfThree" or "Until the Castle Rises Above the Clouds" or "Until the Sun Sets" makes the power work better or at all. [[MagicAIsMagicA So whatever happens needs to happen within the rules instead of at one's convenience]]. If a rules lawyer is around this some times leads to NoManOfWomanBorn.

# [[MagicAIsMagicA Magic Has Its Rules:]] somehow setting limits such as a "RuleOfThree" or "Until the Castle Rises Above the Clouds" or "Until the Sun Sets" makes the power work better or at all. So whatever happens needs to happen within the rules instead of at one's convenience. If a rules lawyer is around this some times leads to NoManOfWomanBorn.

* Angels and Demons who have not been fully trained in all magics in the manga ((Wish)) follow cycles. Angels are adult form during the day and chibi form during the night and demons are vice versa.

* ''{{Gargoyles}}''

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* All
** Especially tales with a ShapeshiftingLover
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