Clap Your Hands If You Believe: Difference between revisions

* In ''[[The Slayers]]'', Shinzoku are dependent on the prayers of the mortal races, to the point where their counterparts, Mazoku, tactically destroyed temples to reduce the power of Shinzoku. Mazoku have their own form, feeding off of any negative emotions the mortal races have.

** In the Novels, Lina was once confronted by Dynast Graushera's General, a very powerful Mazoku. Realizing she couldn't fight or escape, Lina decided to try mocking said Mazoku's name. The reasoning was that because Mazoku were masses of astral energy held together by their own self image, anything that undermined their self confidence would make them weaker. The strategy works.

* In ''[[Umineko no Naku Koro ni]]'', the point of Battler's game with the witch Beatrice is that, should he accept her existence and the existence of magic, magic will exist in retrospect as the cause of the murders that drive the whole mystery. Since he refuses to accept her existence, though, Beatrice must prove her existence with [[Locked Room Mystery|new unsolvable murders.]]

** This is also poor {{spoiler|Hanyuu's}} dilemma in ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro ni]]'', as lack of faith by the residents is the cause of {{spoiler|her}} weakened powers.

* In ''[[Community]]'' episode "[[Community/Recap/S2 E06 Epidemiology|Epidemiology]]" it was brought up and then thoroughly subverted.

* In the 1998 ''[[Merlin (TV miniseries)|Merlin-1998]]'' series, [[The Fair Folk]] and gods of [[Celtic Mythology]] don't necessarily require followers and prayers (though it helps), but they absolutely need to have people believe in them. If people stop believing in them and ascribing importance to them, they will simply cease to exist.