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** A high ranking wizard once tried to perform the rite backwards and disappeared, {{spoiler|it actually reversed the spell and transported him to Death instead}}.
* In James Blisch's ''The Day After Judgment'', the summoning goes horribly wrong, even tho the initial intent was for the demons to cause some chaos. Two evil protagonists contract with the most powerful evil wizard around to set loose some nasty demons, just for kicks. Trouble is, {{spoiler|Theron Ware, the black wizard, does his job too well, and actually removes all the pre-existing restrictions on the demon's actions, literally setting loose all the hordes of hell on the mortal world, undoing the balance of heaven and hell, and directly causing the apocalypse. Which Heaven loses, as God never shows up.}} Oops.
* In ''[[Earthsea Trilogy|A Wizard of
* A large part of several ''[[Dresden Files]]'' books. Don't summon something you can't hold (like the Erlking almost was), or something when your enemies hear (like the demon from the first book), or repeatedly in obvious places, because Harry will sic it back on you.
** Harry summons a bunch of entities for information over the course of the series but, unfortunately, knowledge correlates with power. Be careful.
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* In ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'', the second episode Anya is in has Anya tricking Willow into trying to summon her power source from when she was a Vengeance Demon. Instead, they get the Vampire Willow from the alternate universe they were trying to get the necklace from. [[Fetish Fuel|The BDSM loving, all leather wearing, insane Vampire Willow]].
** Another episode had Giles and his group of friends screwing up summoning the demon Eghyon during Giles' teen years. The summoning was used to produce a drug-like high, but someone screwed up and Eghyon killed him, then spent the next few decades hunting down the rest of the group, jumping into various sleeping and dead human bodies.
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* In ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'' a botched summoning on Bun-Bun's part [http://sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/20020414 gets him stuck] with a really, ''really'' annoying [[Living Shadow]]. When he tries to get Gwynn to summon the shadow off of him, she summons [http://sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/20020417 a bunch of evil, clothes-eating moths instead].
** On account of being drunk.
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20131214112828/http://roaming.comicgenesis.com/d/20101108.html One of these] seems to set off the plot of ''The Roaming Thicket''.
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* Larry Niven's short story "Convergent Series" is based on the idea that people have forgotten how to properly summon demons over the years. Then a college student rediscovers how almost by accident, and scrambles to find a way to not be damned.
* In Thomas Gray's ''The Descent of Odin'' (imitated from the ''Völuspá'', the "Song of the Wise-woman" in the ''Elder Edda''), the eponymous god summons up the spirit of a giant-prophetess for information on the coming Ragnarök.
* In the "[[Discworld]]" novel ''[[
* Another "[[Discworld]]" parody of the Summoning Ritual is the Rite of AshkEnte, used to summon Death. Much is made about how the more traditional wizards want pentagrams and dribbly candles and mystical mumblings, when it could actually be done with three bits of wood and four cc of mouse blood, or two bits of wood and a fresh boiled egg. This is definitely done for the ''summoner's'' benefit, as Death is really quite a practical person and wouldn't be bothered by a lack of ceremony. What bothers him is that they're always summoning him when he's right in the middle of something.
** Also inverted with the character of Albert, who performed the ritual ''in reverse'' hoping it would keep Death away from him. {{spoiler|It didn't work; as might reasonably be expected, it sent him to Death.}}
** * In the Adventure Game ''Discworld II: Missing Presumed...!?'', the Death summoning ritual requires three small sticks (of equal length), 4 cc of mouse blood, dribbly candles, a vile stench, glitter, and a performance of ''Day-O (The Banana Boat Song)''. Death appears dressed in a cork hat, apparently having been on vacation.
* A [[The Parody|parody]] of this was the ritual that the witches used to summon that poor demon in ''[[
** And then the demon was disappointed when they didn't bother to properly banish it once they were done asking their questions, instead merely telling it to go away.
* Harry Dresden of ''[[The Dresden Files]]'' should really know better than to do this; he rather lucked out in his second book, ''Fool Moon,'' when the demon he summoned got a bit overeager about Harry's eternal damnation.
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* The backstory of ''[[Bible Black]]'' revolves around a summoning ritual performed twelve years prior to the game. The [[Human Sacrifice]] ended up gaining its benefits when she survived long enough to kill the person running the ritual and make a pact with the demon that showed up herself.
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* ''[[8-Bit Theater]]'' has a different take on the summoning ritual:
{{quote|'''Garland:''' ''I should be upset, but I can't help taking this as a huge compliment. You can't summon something as powerful as hell lords without sacrificing what's most important to you in the world. This is probably the nicest thing Drizz'l has ever done for us.''
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