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=== Stonehenge ===
Stonehenge is a real place (and it's not the only such circle in Britain, either), but it gets ascribed all sorts of mystic powers in fiction<ref>Of the many theories of its purpose, on of the most widely believed is that it was used to tell what time of year it is. That's right, it's a ''calendar''! To be honest, keeping track of the seasons was incredibly important in the transition from hunter-gatherer societies to agricultural ones.</ref>. Nor is it the only one in the world. There's one, also of unknown origin, in Michigan. [
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* The Lost City of Atlantis itself, as seen in ''[[Stargate Atlantis (TV)|Stargate Atlantis]]'', where it had been moved to another galaxy, submerged, resurfaced in the first episode, then moved to another planet.
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* Pandora's Box also showed up in a last season episode of ''[[Charmed]]'', with a superpowered Guardian ([[Viewers are Morons|named "Hope"]]) who was to protect it so that demons (or anyone really) would not be able to open it and release the ills within. Naturally said Guardian knew nothing about all this and had to go through a (relatively short) [[How Do I Shot Web?]] bit before she could save the world. Interestingly, since the Box had already been opened long ago to originally release its contents, doing so now merely intensified the bad traits of humanity--which, aside from the obvious negative consequences, helped to tilt the balance of power toward evil.
* Pandora's Box is in ''[[Warehouse 13]]''.
** "Empty, of course."
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=== The Shroud of Turin ===
The Shroud of Turin, unsurprisingly, has also appeared at least a time or two in fiction of recent years, usually with the implication that it has enormous mystical power. Test results that date it to the late [[Middle Ages]] are [[Rule of Cool|generally ignored]]. Similarly, there's Veronica's Veil -- a cloth that the eponymous Veronica wiped Jesus' brow with as he was marched to Golgotha, and which was imprinted with his image. Some scholars believe the Veil may have been the Shroud of Turin, just folded so only the image of the face appeared. There's been recent evidence to suggest that the original results from 1988 were either the results of bias or poor data sampling. [
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* ''[[Digimon Tamers (Anime)|Digimon Tamers]]'': Most of Dukemon's arsenal consists of weapons named after legendary weapons of Norse mythology. In his base form he wields a lance called Gram, and as [[Eleventh
* Look at any work by Kosuke Fujishima, ''[[Ah! My Goddess (Manga)|Ah My Goddess]]'' being most prevalent.
* Marie Mjolnir from ''[[Soul Eater (Manga)|Soul Eater]]'' is a Death Scythe whose weapon form is a hammer.
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* This appears in ''[[Golden Sun (Video Game)|Golden Sun]]'', but changed in the English translation to "[
* The ''Necrotelicomnicon'' also shows up in ''[[Kingdom of Loathing]]''.
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