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* Mildly subverted in ''[[Dune]]'' with the Bene Gesserit's Missionaria Protectiva, wherein false legends were implanted in various cultures all over the galaxy by a cult specifically so that its members could fulfill them to take advantage of the natives in an emergencies. {{spoiler|Then ''[[Deconstruction|massively subverted]]'' when Arrakis' version of the Missionaria Protectiva turns out to be ''right''.}}

** In a Galaxy of humans using enhanced perception to guide their future, the Fremen—whose name, almost certainly, was chosen originally to denote their status as Free Men—were Zensunni (Islamic-Buddhist) settlers who were driven out and "denied the Hajj" in religious warfare. When they hid in plain sight on Arrakis, the combination of their culture, their ecology, and their stumbling on the Bene Gesserit methods of foresight and accessing the lives and knowledge of previous generations of women (and men, in certain cases) allowed them to not only ride out the ''Missionaria Protectiva'', it allowed them to gleefully await the entire Galaxy painting itself into a corner!

* In the [[Enid Blyton]] adventure story ''The Secret Mountain'', published 1941, this is how the main characters escape from the titular mountain. They find out that there's to be a [[Convenient Eclipse|solar eclipse]] the next day, so at the appropriate moment their father throws his hunting knife off the mountain. The lights go out and the tribe think he's killed the sun, at which point the [[Cool Plane|"big white bird"]] turns up to carry the heroes to safety before the tribe realize they've been had.

* Given that the [[Big Screwed-Up Family|royal family]] from the ''[[Book of Amber]]'' can walk across the [[The Multiverse]] as one of their powers, is it really surprising that they've chosen to go to worlds where they just happen to resemble the local gods? (This includes both for reasons of in a little private [[A God Am I]] time and to recruit huge, fanatically loyal armies in an attempt to claim the throne.)

 

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