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* ''[[Warlock (comics)|Warlock]]'' used the body fat of a non-baptised child as a levitation potion. Baptise your children, people!

* You know that song the choir's singing near the beginning of ''[[Harry Potter]] 3''? Taken directly from [[The Scottish Trope|The Scottish Play]]. "In the cauldron boil and bake fillet of a fenny snake..." and of course the inevitable [[Inadvertent Entrance Cue|something wicked this way comes]] finish.

* ''[[Alice in Wonderland (2010 film)|Alice in Wonderland]]'':

** The White Queen's recipe for the shrinking potion (which Alice originally found in a bottle labeled "Drink Me", called Pishalver in this movie) is urine of a horsefly, a pinch of worm fat, a "buttered finger" (a severed finger from something obviously inhuman); she finishes making this by ''spitting'' in it. Alice shows no reluctance to drink it, but then, she ''is'' pretty desperate to return to her regular size.

** The cakes labeled "Eat Me" (called Upelkuchens in this movie, "kuchen" being German for "cake") is two cups of flower, one cup of sugar, a pinch of fungus, worm fat, tongue of a blowfish, pinch of thyme, three coins from a dead mans pocket, and [[Insubstantial Ingredients|two tablespoons of wishful thinking]]. This recipe is [[All There in the Manual| only revealed in an early draft of the script]].

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