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== [[Oral Tradition]], [[Folklore]], Myths and Legends ==
* Early myths of Loki in Norse mythology show that he can escape any scrape that he accidentally causes for himself or the Norse gods, with the power of trickery or shapeshifting. A later saga shows that after he got Baldr killed as a joke, the gods quickly hunted him down and killed his sons as punishment.
* Depending on who is telling the story, Siddhartha Gautama aka the Buddha can fall victim to this. Buddhists and most Hindus agree that he is an avatar of Vishnu, the penultimate one before Kalki the Destroyer. Siddhartha was a virtuous prince that gave up his cushy life-- along with his wife and newborn son-- to pursue enlightenment. He proceeded to survive several assassination attempts from his cousin Devadatta, who was jealous of his growing followers. Another sect of Hinduism details in the Puranas that Vishnu became the Buddha to ensure that asuras would convert to Buddhism and forget their dharma, leading to them eventually being condemned to hell. That's a little less heroic, and not as cool as the Eightfold path.
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