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* [[Flash Back]]: [[Homer]]'s ''Odyssey''.
* [[Flipping the Table]]: Jesus does this with the moneychangers in the temple.
* [[Fluffy the Terrible]]:
** A nasty-looking dog named "Puppy" in ''The Satyricon''.
** Cerberus (Kerberos), the name of Hades' monstrous three-headed dog, translates as "Spot".
* [[Food Chains]]: Eating some pomegranate seeds in [[The Underworld]] forced Persephone to return there every year. In the Homeric Hymns, Hades force-fed her. [[Odyssey|Odysseus]] almost loses several men to the lotus-eating addiction.
* [[Forbidden Fruit]]: The Adam and Eve story from Genesis is the [[Trope Namer]].
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* [[Preacher's Kid]] (diabolic type): In [[The Bible|Leviticus]] 10:1,2 the very first High Priest, Aaron (the brother of Moses), had two of his sons mess up.
* [[Prodigal Hero]]: [[The Bible|Moses]] exiles for some time, then comes back to free the Israelites from slavery.
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* [[The Promised Land]]: Canaan in the book of Exodus, which is also the [[Trope Namer]].
* [[Prongs of Poseidon]]: Poseidon's trident, the [[Trope Namer]].
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* [[Public Domain Artifact]]: Many such artifacts are drawn from very old stories, but it happened back then too. The Golden Fleece was used by various mythographers in their retellings of the Argonauts story, and Hercules's bow showed up in his stories and the [[The Trojan Cycle|Trojan Cycle]].
* [[Pungeon Master]]: [[God]] made some puns in ''[[The Bible]]''.
▲* [[The Punishment]]: In some versions of the [[Classical Mythology|Greek Medusa myth]], Medusa used to be a beautiful nymph. Being a hideous monster, and [[Taken for Granite|turning people to stone]], was a punishment from Athene for having sex (or rather, [[Jerkass Gods|getting raped]]) in her temple.
* [[Purple Is Powerful]]: In [[Ancient Rome]], the Patrician class were the only people allowed to wear Tyrian purple.
* [[Purpose Driven Immortality]]: ''[[The Bible]]'' contains several examples of people who were promised that they would not die until they saw some prophesy fulfilled, such as Simeon who was promised he would live to see the Lord's Messiah.
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