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* [[Evie Scelan]] threatens people who seem like they are about to call the Bright Brotherhood by their proper name, {{spoiler|Fiana}}. For someone who doesn't mind handing out her true name, she seems surprisingly worried about this.
* In ''Jack of Shadows'', by [[Roger Zelazny]], Jack's powers include the ability to hear any person who speaks his name in shadow, and to continue listening in until they move out of it.
** In Zelazny's ''Dilvish the Damned'' stories, the evil wizard Jelerak won't himself show up if you speak his name, but one of the demons that serve him may, mistaking your use of his name for Jelerak summoning them. They'll be "unhappy" to be accidentally summoned that way, and may demonstrate this upon your person....
* [[Jack Chalker]]'s ''The Changewinds'' begins with the female protagonists learning that they are being threatened by an evil wizard. A mercenary to whom was entrusted the girls' safety decides that the villain is likely to pay better and attempts to attract his attention by saying his name now and then. The girls, discovering this, try to call on the wizard who brought them to this world by saying his name over and over. Of course, with a name like "Boolean", the girls just wound up giggling after a while. It should be noted that neither wizard was summoned, no matter how much their names were dropped.
* In [[Robert E. Howard]]'s [[Conan the Barbarian]] novel ''The Hour of the Dragon'', Zenobia fears it, even though it's a man being spoken of.
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* In a ''[[South Park]]'' episode, saying Biggie Smalls' name three times while looking into a mirror will summon his ghost, which really pisses him off when he's got things to do.
* In ''[[Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law]]'', saying Mentok the Mind Taker's real name, Mufti, summons powerful magical winds.
* Said by one of the [[Ruthless Modern Pirates|bad guys]] in ''[[Jonny Quest]]'' episode "Skull and Double Crossbones," after his captain referred to the possibility of the Coast Guard showing up ... and they promptly did.
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