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== Films -- Animation ==
* The Loc-Nar in ''[[Heavy Metal (animation)|Heavy Metal]]''.
* The poisoned apple from [[Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Disney film)|Snow White]] and the Seven Dwarves.
* Maleficent's spinning wheel from ''[[Sleeping Beauty (Disney film)|Sleeping Beauty]]''.
* The Black Cauldron from...''[[The Black Cauldron]]''.
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* [[Stephen King]]'s ''[[The Dark Tower]]'' depicts two of a set of [[Numerological Motif|thirteen]] Artifacts Of Doom -- the Wizard's Rainbow, a scattered set of color-coordinated [[Crystal Ball|crystal balls]] that inspire a covetous "''my precious...''" instinct. The pink one appears to cause addiction to [[Reality TV]]. But the ''Doomiest'' of them all, Black Thirteen, instead inspires a mixture of terror and murder-suicides, and is implied to act as a sort of [[Weirdness Magnet]] for disaster when Jake and Father Callahan unknowingly decide to stash it {{spoiler|in a subway locker beneath the World Trade Center in June 1999.}}
* In William King's ''[[Warhammer 40000]] [[Space Wolf]]'' novel ''Grey Hunter'', Ragnor and other [[Space Marine|Space Marines]] encounter an artifact which makes vast promises to them. Ragnor only breaks free when it tells him he has to kneel to the Ruinous Power to get it. And the others don't break free on their own; he has to help them.
* May or may not be averted in [[C. S. Lewis|CS Lewis]]' ''[[The
* That [[Tome of Eldritch Lore|tome of ineffable horrors]], the ''Necronomicon'' originating in the works of [[H.P. Lovecraft|HP Lovecraft]], though this is largely the result of being heavily [[Flanderized]]; a major percentage of the Lovecraft's protagonists read the book without becoming more than mildly neurotic. Breakdowns only tend to happen when what they've learned from the book seems to coincide with their recent experiences.
* In [[China Mieville]]'s ''[[The Scar]]'', Silas steals a statue from the grindylow which grants him mysterious powers, yet has the unfortunate side effect of slowly turning him into a fish-person.
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