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* [[Older Than Feudalism]]: From Greek myth, there are the Moirai, the Fate sisters, who measure out people's lifespans on their threads.
* There's a Greek myth about Meleager, who was prophesied to live only until a log in the fire had burned down. His mother promptly snatched it out and extinguished it, and he kept on living until years later... when he murdered his two uncles in a fight, and his mother threw that log back in the fire. (Nobody does dysfunctional families like Greek mythology.)
=== Tabletop Games ===
* ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]''; according to giantish legend, the god Annam lives in the Hidden Realm, where hourglasses measure the lives of every living being in existence.
=== Video Games ===
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* The flower in the glass with its dropping petals of from Disney's ''[[Beauty and the Beast]]'' showed how long the Beast had before the curse was unbreakable, ending at his 21st birthday.
* In ''[[Aladdin (Disney film)|Aladdin]]'', Jafar uses the "Sands of Time" to discover the one person (Aladdin) who can retrieve the lamp from the Cave of Wonders. Later, he imprisons Jasmine in the lower half of a giant hourglass, where she is in danger of suffocation due to the sand falling on her.
* ''[[Hazbin Hotel]]''; the series starts right after one of the annual purges, and a clock in the center of the city starts counting down to the next one. While not outright stated, it is implied that Charlie has until then to prove her hotel is a success.
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