History Literature / TheNightOfWishes

** When talking about how books of wizards and witches, although not moving, are to some level sentinent and very conscious of the titles and topics of books standing next to them, the narrator says even an ordinary human can understand the need for topical arrangement, as nobody would put, say, [[MarquisDeSade Justine]] next to a children's book.

** When talking about how books of wizards and witches, although not moving, are to some level sentinent and very conscious of the titles and topics of books standing next to them, the narrator says even an ordinary human can understand the need for topical arrangement, as nobody would put, say, [[Literature/Justine Justine]] next to a children's book.

* ThoughtAversionFailure: The final instruction on the recipe scroll is to simply wait until the potion has become completely clear. The tricky bit? You can't ask anything or even think a question while you wait, because at that point, the punch is so unstable that any doubt about getting it right will make it explode. [[spoiler:The book subverts the trope, first by having the two villains sit and think about other things, and then, when that stops working, by having them descend into a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown that keeps them busy until the punch is clear.]]

* RavensAndCrows: Jacob.

* {{Extranormal Institute}}: Beelzebub is a graduate of "Sodom and Gomorra Gymnasium" and "Ahriman College".

* {{Extranormal Institute}}: Beelzebub is a graduate of "Sodom and Gomorra Gymnasium" and "Ahriman College".

* {{My Name Is Not Durwood}}: It's Mr. Maggot, not Mr. Larva, if you please.

* EvilSorcerer: Beelzebub Preposteror.

* {{Black Speech}}: The language of the fourth dimension.

* WhenTheClockStrikesTwelve: The deadline.

* {{Take That}}: The ''"Buechernoergele"'' ("book nag") is a Take That to literary critics, especially a famous German one named Marcel Reich-Ranicki, whose face he has in the illustrated German version.

''The Night of Wishes'' (or ''The [[{{Portmanteau}} Satanarchaeolidealcohellish]] Notion Potion''; German title: ''Der satanarchäolügenialkohöllische Wunschpunsch'') is a comic fantasy novel by MichaelEnde (author of ''Literature/TheNeverendingStory''). A sorcerer and a witch, finding themselves on New Year's Eve and both behind on their annual evil quotas, team up to concoct the Satanarchaeolidealcohellish Notion Potion, which grants wishes to anyone who drinks from it and will give them unimaginable power for evil. All that stand in their way are a conceited cat and raggedy raven. Hilarity (and much wordplay) ensues.

''The Night of Wishes'' (or ''The [[{{Portmanteau}} Satanarchaeolidealcohellish]] Notion Potion'') is a comic fantasy novel by MichaelEnde (author of ''Literature/TheNeverendingStory''). A sorcerer and a witch, finding themselves on New Year's Eve and both behind on their annual evil quotas, team up to concoct the Satanarchaeolidealcohellish Notion Potion, which grants wishes to anyone who drinks from it and will give them unimaginable power for evil. All that stand in their way are a conceited cat and raggedy raven. Hilarity (and much wordplay) ensues.

* {{Mac Guffin}}: [[spoiler: Saint Sylvester gives the heroes a note from the New Year's church bells n the form of an ice cube, to counter the potion.]]

* EigenPlot: A rare villainous version. For some odd reason, that potion recipe seems to require the skills of both main villains.

''The Night of Wishes'' (or ''The [[{{Portmanteau}} Satanarchaeolidealcohellish]] Notion Potion'') is a comic fantasy novel by MichaelEnde (author of ''TheNeverendingStory''). A sorcerer and a witch, finding themselves on New Year's Eve and both behind on their annual evil quotas, team up to concoct the Satanarchaeolidealcohellish Notion Potion, which grants wishes to anyone who drinks from it and will give them unimaginable power for evil. All that stand in their way are a conceited cat and raggedy raven. Hilarity (and much wordplay) ensues.