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** It was actually Babbage's '''Analytical''' Engine that the Ancient Conspiracy uses, the fact of its construction having been suppressed in an attempt to keep others from being able to duplicate its methods.
* Humorously subverted in ''[[The Areas of My Expertise]]'':
{{quote| "It is true that all of the past fourteen presidential candidates have been Bonesmen, with the exception of Ralph Nader, who was merely of member of the much less prestigious consumer-advocacy society Scroll and Seatbelt. And it is also true that Skull and Bones was originally chartered by the Illuminati and Knights Templar in order to infiltrate the Secret World Government at Yale's New Haven campus. But having failed to make any progress in this goal, the Bonesmen now focus almost entirely on tending to the pterodactyls on their private island and on ritual masturbation."}}
* In [[Jorge Luis Borges]] short story "[[Tlon Uqbar Orbis Tertius]]" the protagonist reasons that the only explanation for the creation of the incredibly intricate encyclopedia for the fictional country known as Tlön.
* The Evil Librarians, in [[Brandon Sanderson]]'s ''[[Alcatraz Series]]''.
* In ''[[Angels and Demons]]'', the Illuminati are a secret organization of scientists who oppose the Catholic Church, and try to destroy the Vatican with an antimatter bomb. {{spoiler|Subverted in that the organization does not exist anymore and all of the Illuminati symbols were planted by the Camerlengo in an attempt to get himself elected pope and restore faith in Christianity. He...kind of succeeds.}}
* Spoofed in the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' [[Eighth Doctor Adventures]] novel ''Trading Futures'':
{{quote| "The conspiracy theorists had been saying it for decades - there was a group of people, small enough to fit round a table, who were the secret masters of the world.<br />
"Cosgrove knew of at least nine organizations, of which six were still active, who thought it was them." }}
* The Cahill Family from ''[[The 39 Clues]]''.
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