History Literature / IShallWearMidnight

* TheCoronerDothProtestTooMuch

* FreudianExcuse: The Cunning Man does have one, insufficient to justify turning into an EldritchAbomination though it may be. When he was just a normal man he fell in love with a witch that was going to be burned at the stake. When he finally decided at the last minute to save her, she grabbed him and he was horribly burned along with her.

* ProneToTears: Letitia starts as this when Tiffany confronts her for [[spoiler:creating a spell to turn Roland and the nearly village against a witch]]. Tiffany alternates between getting annoyed, trying to calm her down, and telling her off for being reckless.
* ProphecyTwist: Not exactly a prophecy, but Tiffany says she'll marry her former beau. [[spoiler:Which she does, but in the sense that she officiates a primeval ceremony wedding Roland to Letitia, not in the sense that she becomes his wife instead.]]

** The song known as "The Larks They Sang Melodious" on the Chalk and "Pleasant and Delightful" in Lancre is a real folk song, which is known by both these names (and "A Sailor and his True Love") in different parts of England.

** The Chalk Giant, a hill figure whose [[GagPenis lack of trousers fills the world]], is a pretty obvious reference to the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerne_Abbas_Giant Cerne Abbas Giant]].[[labelnote:*]] As, probably, was the [[Literature/LordsAndLadies Long Man]]. Tiffany thinks Nanny Ogg -- who nearly fell off her broom laughing when she first saw the Long Man -- would have liked to see the Giant.[[/labelnote]]

* TakingYouWithMe: How the original Cunning Man died. Now, the only way to get rid of the Cunning Man once he takes over a body is to kill that vessel. In another dark twist of this, it's the witches role to kill Tiffany if the Cunning Man possesses her.

** Long Tall Short Fat Sally is a reference to the Little Richard song "Long Tall Sally" and the Larry Williams song "Short Fat Fanny". Also she suffers from the same condition as Tethys in ''Literature/TheColourOfMagic''.

* RejectedByTheEmphaticWeapon: Once Wee Mad Arthur finds out that the Cunning Man missed the detail of controlling how weeds get picked with the shovels, he milks it for all its worth by attempting to hack the Wintersmith replica into pieces so he can condescendingly lord it over the Cunning Man's face without getting [[PragmaticVillainy retribution that wouldn't destroy anything that would come in handy]]. Unfortunately for him, this leads to him getting retribution through a ''different'' outlet--the replica, which bonks his face with the shovel, much to his confusion (and pain), until the Wintersmith elaborates that a ''living thing'' will never exist in the replica, but spontaneous bouts of momentum usually will, since it essentially works like a clock.

The 38th ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' novel and the fourth in the Tiffany Aching theme.