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The world would probably be a lot more boring without special occasions. Times like birthdays, Halloween, Christmas, Easter, that kind of thing. In fiction, special occasions may be even more exciting — maybe Special Occasions Are Magic! On Christmas, maybe time slows down to allow Santa Claus to deliver all the toys in one night (answering the age-old question How Can Santa Deliver All Those Toys?) or angels might visit, or even the Second Coming may happen. On Halloween, perhaps The Undead rise, or witches arrive. On Valentine's Day, love-related magic may occur. On St. Patrick's Day, leprechauns may appear. On Friday the 13th, Peeve Goblins might start spreading bad luck. Whether this is good magic, bad magic, both, or neither depends on the work and on the occasion, though there are a few trends. Dark magic is often associated with Friday the 13th, Halloween, or villains' birthdays. Positive magic is usually associated with Christmas (exceptions usually overlap with Twisted Christmas), Easter, Valentine's Day, Hanukkah, and good people's birthdays. In order to qualify for this trope, then the special occasion must be causing the magic in some way. If magic just coincidentally happens to occur on a special occasion, then it's not this trope. Can overlap with Christmas Miracle (if it's a literal miracle and not just a stroke of good luck), Angel Unaware, Celestial Deadline, A Birthday, Not a Break, Christmas Episode, Hanukkah Episode, Easter Episode, Birthday Episode, Halloween Episode, Valentine's Day Episode, Thirteenth Birthday Milestone, Superstition Episode (if it's Friday the 13th), or Dangerous 16th Birthday (if the supernatural thing causes something creepy to happen to someone on their birthday) and Becoming the Costume (especially on Halloween). Compare Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday. Sub-trope of Liminal Time. Examples |
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The Dresden Files: Halloween is a time when the mortal and spirit worlds draw close, making the laws of magic malleable; immortals can gain power but are also vulnerable to death. In Cold Days, this time limit becomes the focus of a plot to kill a rogue faerie monarch. | |
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Supernatural: As revealed in "It's The Great Pumpkin, Sam Winchester" that quite fittingly it's only possible to summon Samhain, the ancient demon who inspired Halloween through three human sacrifices, one each day with the final upon the last day of the harvest namely Halloween. | |
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Halloweentown: The portal between the mortal world and Halloweentown only opens when it's Halloween in the mortal world. While a bus exists for beings without magic to ferry them back and forth, witches are also able to magically open portals between the worlds on this night, unless other magic gets in the way. This was eventually averted at the end of Halloweentown II, when Marnie and the others were able to open a permanent gate between realms. In addition, a witch's 13th Halloween was meant to mark the end of her training, while a witch who hadn't learned magic by then would lose her powers for good at this time. | |
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In Savvy, whenever someone belonging to a certain bloodline turns thirteen, they get their "savvy" (that is, their superpower). In fact, the thirteenth birthday of someone in a family with savvies is sometimes known as their "savvy birthday". | |
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Spooky Month: Played for Laughs. In "Unwanted Guest", Skid and Pump visit the hospital's morgue and cheerfully inform the worker there that it is Spooky Month. The corpses in the morgue then inexplicably rise and begin to dance, only for the morgue worker to inform them that it is actually June, not Spooky Month. They all die (again) on the spot. | |
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Songdrops: In "My Pet Monster", the only time the monster isn't invisible is on Halloween. | |
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Neopets: During the "Faerie Festival", Marina uses magic to heal all pets that come her way, as opposed to her usual fare of alternating between healing them completely, healing them partially, and giving out items. | |
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The Tailor of Gloucester: Animals are granted the ability to speak on the night of Christmas Eve through some vaguely-defined magic. | |
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In Hocus Pocus, the Sanderson sisters may only be summoned on Halloween night (with the additional requirements of it being a full moon and the person who lights the candle being a virgin). | |
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Liar Liar: On his 5th birthday, Max wishes that his dad couldn't lie. His wish comes true, which the judge notes can happen due to "24-hour curses". At the end of his movie, his parents fear it will happen again when he turns six, implying that this always happens on Max's birthdays. | |
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Hogfather: Death's manservant Albert rarely if ever returns to the real world, because when he does his lifetimer starts trickling again, and as of the end of Soul Music, he only has seconds left. On Hogswatchnight, he helps out with Death Subbing for Santa, explaining that tonight it doesn't apply to him due to the time distortion needed to distribute gifts to all the children in the world. | |
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In the Motherland: Fort Salem universe, traditional pagan holidays like Beltane, Samhain, and Yule grant witches more power than usual, allowing them to perform feats beyond their usual power level. In the episode "Hail Beltane", for example, the witch cadets hold an orgy on the titular holiday in order to generate power that the Necromancy cadets then use to interrogate Porter Tippet about his death. In "Happy Yule!", Scylla tries to take advantage of her increased power during the holiday season to try and communicate with Raelle, who's been trapped in the Mycelium. "Brianna's Favorite Pencil" takes place during Samhain, when each coven must defend their hearth until midnight from the ghosts of the Lost Regiment. If they win, they get to talk to one dead witch of their choosing. |
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Touhou Project: The goddess Chimata Tenkyu's "Lunar Rainbow Market", where she personally partakes in the selling of Ability Cards, only occurs during a titular lunar rainbow or similarly dramatic event such as a meteor impact, volcanic eruption, or intersection with an Otherworld. | |
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The Fairly OddParents!: Every Valentine's Day, Cupid shows up and begins making Earthlings fall in love. Every Friday the 13th, the Anti-Fairies escape to Earth to cause bad luck. |
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In D.N.Angel, Daisuke inherits a magical alter ego known as "Dark" on his 14th birthday and suddenly finds his body physically transformed into Dark's. | |
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Mary Poppins: The first book reveals that animals become anthropomorphic on Mary's birthday, but only if it falls on a full moon. | |
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: Discussed in "Luna Eclipsed", where the ponies believe that Nightmare Night (which is essentially Halloween but different) is when Nightmare Moon (Princess Luna's evil persona) returns and eats ponies, but it's not true. | |
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Annabelle's Wish: Santa Claus visits a farm and gives the animals the ability to speak on Christmas day, which they have to keep secret from humans. | |
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The Dark is Rising: The time of the Dark's first Rising occurs from Midwinters Eve to Christmas Day, which just so happens to fall around Will Stanton's 11th birthday, when he comes into his power as an Old One in the first book. The second great Rising occurs at Midsummer, with both of these times said to be naturally ones of great magical power. | |
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Sword Art Online: During the Aincrad Arc, a unique boss appears during the Christmas event (explicitly stated to be because it's Christmas), rumored to drop an item that can revive players killed in The Most Dangerous Video Game. Kirito goes after it and slays it, hoping to revive members of his former guild who were killed in a dungeon ambush but discovers to his disappointment that the item will only bring back a player whose HP was reduced to zero in the last ten seconds. | |
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The Disney Channel movie 16 Wishes centers around Abby Jensen turning 16 years old and being visited by a Fairy Godmother. She is granted 16 magical candles corresponding to the wishes on her board of goals. | |
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Merlin (2008): "The Darkest Hour" reveals that at the stroke of midnight upon the eve of Samhain (marking the end of the harvest and the lighter half of the year), the veil between the worlds of the living and the dead is at its thinnest. As such, it is possible through an Old Religion Human Sacrifice ritual to tear open the veil and unleash the Dorocha upon the world. | |
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In the Sabrina the Teenage Witch sitcom, Sabrina has her magic powers awakened when she turns 16 years old in the first episode. | |
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Babylon 5: In "Day of the Dead", the Brakiri are given permission to mark off part of the station as a boundary line for their eponymous holiday, when the spirits of the dead are said to come back to the world of the living. This turns out to literally be the case. | |
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