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* ''Little (Grrl) Lost'', by [[Charles De Lint]], has a Fairy Market like this. Wings and amazingly good pastries are the hot items of the season when the protagonist, Elizabeth, comes through.
* The shop that the protagonist enters in [[Thomas Ligotti]]'s "The Unfamiliar" is essentially a miniaturised version of one of these, played for [[Surreal Horror]].
* A [[Traveling Salesman]] variation appears in the [[Spider Robinson]] story [[CallahansCallahan's Crosstime Saloon (Literature)|"Did You Hear the One About..."]], in which Al Phee, self-proclamed "Intergalactic Traveling Salesman" displays various gems with unusual properties to the patrons at Callahan's. He even describes his wares as a "Bazaar of the Bizarre".
 
 
== Live Action TV ==
* One cropped up on the planet Shan Shen the ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'' episode "Turn Left" - it was vaguely Chinese in flavour and led to Donna having a most peculiar encounter with a fortuneteller {{spoiler|and a giant beetle}} which let her see her own alternate past.
* The ''[[Farscape (TV)|Farscape]]'' episode "That Old Black Magic" introduced the crew to one of these. Technically speaking, [[The Watson|Crichton's]] the only one who finds any of it weird at first; then of course, it's revealed that the building at the end of the bazaar is owned by the [[Evil Sorcerer]] Maldis, and things only get stranger from there...
** Then there was the commerce settlement in "Bringing Home The Beacon." Quite apart from being a dead [[Living Ship|Leviathan]] embedded in the side of a small planetoid, it's also home to a number of strange stalls and shops- not least of which is the massage parlour that has a sideline business in genetic transformations. {{spoiler|It's also a meeting ground for Commandant Grayza and War Minister Ahkna.}}
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== Web Original ==
* The [[Super -Hero School|Whateley]] Weapons Fair in the [[Whateley Universe]].
* "Gryphon's Cabinet of Curiosities" in [[Behind the Veil (Roleplay)|Behind the Veil]].
* The web serial novel ''[http://chimerabazaar.blogspot.com/ The Chimera Bazaar]'' has this as it's main plot focus.
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== Real Life ==
* The [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/Chor_Bazaar:Chor Bazaar|Mumbai Chor Bazaar]]: common saying goes that "If you lose ''anything'' in Mumbai, you can buy it back at Chor Bazaar". Incidentally, the word "Chor" means "Thief", which makes the place, (in name and also slightly in nature) "[[Meaningful Name|Thieves' Market]]".
* Renaissance Faires
* Comic-Con
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* Northwest Folklife in [[Seattle]], [[The Other Rainforest|Washington]], the Uncommon Market.
* Saturday market in Portland, Oregon. the largest regularly held outdoor crafts sale in the world
* [[E BayEBay (Website)|E Bay]]
* Those who have been to the middle east may find the real life version somewhat disappointing by comparison. Still, many bazaars or suqs are really fascinating (like the Spice Bazaar in Istanbul or any street market in the Old City of Jerusalem). And quite interesting and often shady things can be found, like in a hookah shop in Turkey where the owner told this troper he had many more hookahs in "my dumpster." The "dumpster" turned out to just be the basement, which indeed contained a bunch more hookahs.
* Pretty much any of the souqs in Marrakesh, especially those lining Djeema El Fna. It leans more on the fantastical than most other markets - you can buy spices, glass lamps, mirrors, and so forth.
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* Camden Market in London. It's kind of like that market scene in [[Hellboy II]], but less fictional.
** Especially the Locke Market, which is a kind of sub-market. It's as if someone transplanted Morocco into inner-city London.
* The [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/:10th-Anniversary_StadiumAnniversary Stadium|10th-Anniversary Stadium]] in Warsaw was, well, a stadium converted into a huge market, dealing in pirated software and clothes and practically everything else. It got to the point where people were just going there for a walk or to eat the best Vietnamese food in the city, and allegedly, foreign tourists were having guided tours of it. It was recently closed, though. On a smaller note, if a bazaar in Poland attracts "[[Useful Notes/Russia|the Ruskies]]" (in general people from the former USSR), it automatically gains this kind of reputation, and not without a reason -- you can jokingly ask if they've got a Geiger counter and they reply that you need to wait a week or two.
* For a more mundane and narrow-interest version, the Comic Market (usually shortened Comiket). Things you won't ever see in the official [[Anime]] and [[Manga]], you can get here... Caveat emptor: [[Sturgeon's Law]] is in full effect. There are many similar events in Japan.
* Most Triumphant Real-Life example: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlDMEvqjSVQ The Sonora Witchcraft Market in Mexico City.]
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