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* [[Character Filibuster]]: Granny Weatherwax's rant about how "the soul and center" of witchcraft is "helpin' people when life is on the edge".
* [[Close-Knit Community]]: The Chalk. Tiffany mentions they always look after each other because her grandmother expected it.
* [[Continuity Nod]]: Some of the things Granny Weatherwax did in previous books are mentioned as rumours about her. In addition, the
* [[Eldritch Abomination]]: The hiver has been around practically since the universe began. It was aware of everything at once in its natural form. The universe was a ''much'' smaller place back then, but the hiver ''still sees and hears everything.'' This is, suffice to say, traumatic, and so it [[Grand Theft Me|hops into living minds.]] It gains some degree of insulation against the quantity of the universe, and in exchange it allows its victim to essentially act as pure id. It is better at being you than you are.
* [[Evil Costume Switch]]: When Tiffany is possessed by the Hiver, she's inspired to raid the local witch shop, buy a cape, a tall hat, and several pieces of occult jewelry.
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* [[Take That, Critics!]]: Annagramma's completely wrongheaded criticism of Miss Level ("A complete amateur. Hasn't really got a clue.") is a paraphrase of the critic Tom Paulin, who once said of Pterry: ''"A complete amateur ... doesn't even write in chapters ... hasn't a clue."''
* [[Talking the Monster to Death]]: {{spoiler|Quite literally. At the end, Tiffany has to help the Hiver find its way into Death.}}
* [[Waxing Lyrical]]: Rob Anybody's complaint when the Feegles are pretending to be a human -- "I talk to my knees but they dinna listen to me."
* [[What Happened to the Mouse?]]: Halfway through the book, Rob Anybody's wife Jeannie correctly predicts that {{spoiler|she'll soon give birth to a daughter as well as sons. Keldas can tell, apparently.}} Two Tiffany books later, we still won't have seen anything more of {{spoiler|their daughter}}.
* [[The Woman Wearing the Queenly Mask]]: Played straight ''and'' subverted with Jeannie.
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