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* The titular characters of the [[Diana Wynne Jones]] novel ''The Homeward Bounders'', one of whom is the actual Wandering Jew (and another is the actual Flying Dutchman).
* [[Daniel Pinkwater]]'s book ''Yobgorgle: Mystery Monster of Lake Ontario'' is about a modern cursed Dutchman named Captain Van Straaten who sails Lake Ontario in a self sufficient submarine shaped like a giant pig. The curse is eventually broken not with [[The Power of Love]], but with the use of hydroplaning and a corned-beef sandwich.
* The short story ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20160214025516/http://gaslight.mtroyal.ab.ca/PetrRugg.htm Peter Rugg, the Missing Man]'', on which a ''[[The Real Ghostbusters]]'' episode was based, featured a man who swore that if his carriage could not reach his Boston home one night, in spite of a gathering storm, that he might never return...
* The ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'' novel ''Ghost Ship'' has the crew of a present day Russian naval vessel trapped as disembodied intelligences in a giant space going creature.
* ''[[Dragonlance]]'' has the Green Gemstone Man, condemned to wander the earth. He had a green gem from a column embedded in his chest; the gem prevented the gods from returning to the world of Dragonlance because the column was incomplete. He could be killed, but would be reincarnated.
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{{quote|'''David Grey:''' Jesus Christ!
'''Lazarus:''' Where? }}
* In ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20100103085743/http://www.mopsy.com/w/20040531.html Never Never],'' the Black Knight's back story is a Roman version of the Wandering Jew.
* In [[The DCU]], one of [[The Phantom Stranger]]'s purported origins—he has four, and DC will never say which if any of them is the real one—is that he is the Wandering Jew. (The other three also involve him being some kind of Flying Dutchman, but not ''the'' Wandering Jew. Clear?)
* The immortal Hob Gadling in ''[[The Sandman]]'' was once accused of being the Wandering Jew.
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{{quote|'''Agatha Clay:''' ...But what has that got to do with your long life?
'''Embi:''' One of the problems with people here is that they do not take sacred vows ''at all'' seriously! }}
* In ''[http://zebragirl.keenspot.net Zebra Girl]{{Dead link}}'', Jack curses vampiric mage Harold DuVase to become a Wandering Jew with a twist:
{{quote|'''Jack''': He'll move around. Wherever he doesn't want to be... that's always where he'll go.}}
** This was more of an [[And I Must Scream]], since [[Du Vase]] is teleported to a series of increasingly worse hells and doesn't actually do much wandering.
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