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** As well, the knowledge of metallurgy is a [[Justified Trope]] given that the magic used by the world's nobles is run on specifically mixed metals.
* [[The Bible]] has been known to contain a few anachronisms since often the "books" composing it were written some time after the events were supposed to have taken place. For example: the descriptions of armor, especially that worn by Goliath, in 1 Samuel 17 are typical of Greek armour of the 6th century BC rather than of Philistine armour of the 10th century BC.
* George Macdonald Fraser's ''[[The Pyrates]]'' is a colossal Anachronism Stew, with seventeenth century pirates riding around in catamarans and using face cream. Fraser was a diligent researcher and knew exactly what he was doing, even lampshading it in
* ''[[The Princess Bride (novel)|The Princess Bride]]'' actually uses the invention of stew to clarify its chronology. Most definitely [[Rule of Funny]] and metahumor. [[William Goldman]] often states that the time he's talking about is before one thing, but after another—often putting them in ahistorical order, as when he says it's set "before Europe and after America". (Unless he means "after Vespucci's voyages but before the Maastricht Treaty"...)
* ''Secret of the Sixth Magic'' by [[Lyndon Hardy]] has an in-universe example (for ''another universe's'' history) -- the sorcerer Farnel is said to have lost out in competitions against other illusion-crafters, because his simulations of famous historical events succumbed to Anachronism Stew. Apparently this trope isn't just universal, it's multiversal.
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