History Main / AYearAndADay

** Judges Guild supplement ''The Mines of Custalcon''. In a detachment of the First Regiment Stillring Brigade, several of the soldiers have swords blessed to be +1 vs. goblins for a year and a day.

*** If a character angers his or her deity, the deity will send an aleax to attack them. If the character defeats the aleax, they are taken to their deity's home plane to serve them personally for a year and a day.

** 1st Edition ''Fiend Folio''

** 2nd Edition

*** Once a hellcat has taken service with a master, it can only remain on the Prime Material Plane for a year and a day. At the end of that period it must return to its home in the Nine Hells.

* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959''
** "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS2E65TheObsoleteMan The Obsolete Man]]". When the Chancellor asks Mr. Wordsworth when he wants to be executed, Wordsworth picks the traditional time: midnight.
** "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS2E62ShadowPlay Shadow Play]]". Adam Grant is scheduled to be executed at midnight. He believes that what he's experiencing is AllJustADream. The timing of the execution is due to the fact that all he knows about executions is what he sees in the movies, where prisoners are usually executed at midnight.

** ''Magazine/{{Polyhedron}}'' magazine #28 adventure "The Great Bugbear Hunt". In the list of pre-generated PlayerCharacters, the fighter Sir Alfred has pledged his service to the cleric James Ansthrom for a year and a day.

*** ''Throal Adventures'' supplement, adventure "Deep Trouble". When the PlayerCharacters kill the Horror Emr'r'ko, with its dying breath it uses sacrifice magic (a type of blood magic) to lay a curse of darkness on the dwarven town of Hustane that will last for ten years and ten days (ten times A Year And A Day). The curse lasts a multiple of the usual time because of the power the Horror puts into it.

* ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings: The Two Towers'': Faramir gives Frodo the right to go anywhere in the realm of Gondor (except for the Ranger hideout in Ithilien) for a year and a day. He also grants this right to anyone Frodo formally takes under his protection, such as Gollum. Oddly enough Samwise is not mentioned at all in this--apparently Faramir decided that as Frodo's companion, Sam was already under his protection. Faramir considers this period to be the limit of his discretionary power under the law (having caught Frodo and his companions "trespassing"), and urges Frodo to visit Minas Tirith before the year is over to petition the Steward to make his status permanent. And though the point may seem rather moot after the Ring is destroyed and Frodo is accorded high honor by all, King Aragorn does confirm his free status before he leaves Minas Tirith.

* In the [[Myth/ArthurianLegend Arthurian romance]] ''Literature/SirGawainAndTheGreenKnight'', this is the length of time that passes between Gawain chopping the Green Knight's head off and when he has to go let the Green Knight chop off ''his'' head in turn.

* In a more recent Czech legend (with some basis in real history), the 17th century rebel from Chodsko, Jan Sladký Kozina, said on the day of his execution to Lamminger, the foreign nobleman who had taken away the Chods' old priveleges: "Lomikar, Lomikar, in a year and a day I invite you to God's judgement!" (Lomikar was the local name for Lamminger.) In a year and a half, Lamminger did indeed suddenly die.
** Apparently, most of the events did really happen but Lamminger died ''earlier''. His sudden death meant he never gained much by his victory over Kozina and that would have given rise to the more legendary telling of the tale, in which "a year and a day" makes for a more narratively satisfying timespan.

* In Creator/JohnCWright's ''Literature/TheHermeticMillennium'', Soorm had to serve this long to sleep in the Tombs.

* ''Wiki/SCPFoundation''

* ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings: The Two Towers'': Faramir gives Frodo the right to go anywhere in the realm of Gondor (except for the Ranger hideout in Ithilien) for a year and a day. He also grants this right to anyone Frodo formally takes under his protection, such as Gollum. Oddly enough Samwise is not mentioned at all in this--apparently Faramir decided that as Frodo's companion, Sam was already under his protection. Faramir considers this period to be the limit of his discretionary power under the law (having caught Frodo and his companions "trespassing"), and urges Frodo to visit Minas Tirith before the year is over to petition the Steward to make his status permanent. And thought the point may seem rather moot after the Ring is destroyed and Frodo is accorded high honor by all, King Aragorn does confirm his free status before he leaves Minas Tirith.

-->''"It would take a year and a Sunday. It isn't worth it."'' -- '''Dingo'''

*** When the Major Arcana card "The Tower" is drawn upside down, the person drawing it is unable to achieve a new CharacterLevel for a year and a day, no matter how many ExperiencePoints they earn.

** ''Magazine/{{Dragon}}'' magazine #77 article "The Tarot (Deck) of Many Things''.

** ''Magazine/{{Dragon}}'' magazine #77 article "The Tarot (Deck) of Many Things''. When someone draws the Major Arcana card "The Hanged Man" face up, they enter a period of meditation for 24 days. For a year and a day after that the drawer will refuse all excess wealth, accepting only enough to cover their modest needs and those of their followers, if any.

** ''Magazine/{{Dragon}}'' magazine #77 article "The Tarot (Deck) of Many Things''. When someone draws the Major Arcana card "The Hanged Man" face up, they enter a period of meditation for 24 days. For a years and a day after that the drawer will refuse all excess wealth, accepting only enough to cover their modest needs and those of their followers, if any.

* ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings: The Two Towers'': Faramir gives Frodo the right to go anywhere in the realm of Gondor (except for the Ranger hideout in Ithilien) for a year and a day. He also grants this right to anyone Frodo formally takes under his protection, such as Gollum. Faramir considers this to be the limit of his discretionary power under the law (having caught Frodo and his companions "trespassing"), and urges Frodo to visit Minas Tirith before the year is over to petition his father the Steward to make his status permanent. Oddly enough Samwise is not mentioned at all in this--apparently Faramir decided that as Frodo's companion, Sam was already under his protection.

* ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings: The Two Towers'': Faramir gives Frodo the right to go anywhere in the realm of Gondor (except for the Ranger hideout in Ithilien) for a year and a day. He also grants this right to anyone Frodo formally takes under his protection, such as Gollum. Oddly enough Samwise is not mentioned at all in this - apparently Faramir decided that as Frodo's companion, Sam was already under his protection.

*** ''Magic: A Manual of Mystic Secrets''. If both characters involved in a Blood Peace oath keep their promise for a year and a day, the wound site changes color to ruby, emerald, silver or gold. When two characters swear a Blood Promise oath, the period of time for the participants to carry out their deeds is a maximum of a year and a day. If a character violates a Blood Sworn oath, they take wounds that last three years and three days ([[RuleOfThree three times]] a year and a day).

*** ''Magic: A Manual of Mystic Secrets''. If both characters involved in a Blood Peace oath keep their promise for a year and a day, the wound site changes color to ruby, emerald, silver or gold. When two characters swear a Blood Promise oath, the period of time for the participants to carry out their deeds is a maximum of a year and a day.