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* Ferdinand the Bull from a 1936 book by Munro Leaf was a subversion, as he was quite gentle, preferring picking flowers and other "girly" activities.

* Both a minotaur-type creature (oddly named Erinyes, and blind) and a rubber Ferdinand the Bull mask figure in the plot of the [[Stephen King]] novel "Rose Madder".

* ''[[House of Leaves]]'' has numerous references to Greek mythology, including {{color|red|t}}. The book has {{color|red|m}} printed in red, and passages which are, to some degree, threatening to the reader are also struck out. {{color|red|M}} may or may not be struck out, depending on if it's in one of the aforementioned mythological references.

* ''[[House of Leaves]]'' has numerous references to Greek mythology, including {{color|red|the Minotaur}}. The book has {{color|red|mythological references}} printed in red, and passages which are, to some degree, threatening to the reader are also struck out. {{color|red|Minotaur}} may or may not be struck out, depending on if it's in one of the aforementioned mythological references.

* A [[Cordwainer Smith]] short story has B'dikkat, a humanoid bull-person, as a caretaker of the inmates on a prison planet.

* In the [[Thursday Next]] book ''The Well of Lost Plots'', a murderous Minotaur escapes and wreaks havoc throughout the books of the Book World. He goes by the alias Norman Johnson, and in the following book ''Something Rotton'' he is hit with a Slapstick marker so that they can track him through Fiction. No one in the books he enters seems to notice he's a Minotaur.