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* Features prominently in any of [[Jack Chick]]'s comics about the Catholic Church and, like the life of Jesus is treated [[Artistic License History|as if almost noone has ever heard of it]].
* [[Don Quixote]]: The only contemporary example by an Spanish author (Cervantes) shows [[The Spanish Inquisition]] as an Institution responsible for ensuring that the Spanish captives by the Moors who returned to Spain did not present traces of having converted to Islam,and as a [[Moral Guardian]] full of [[Pitying Perversion]] for the masses at their charge when [[The Prankster|a noble]] makes a [[Practical Joke]] with an [[Deceptively-Human Robots|enchanted head]]. However, [[Fridge Logic|the book would never have been published if the institution was showed at a worse light]].
{{quote| ...this marvellous contrivance stood for some ten or twelve days; but that, as it became noised abroad through the city that he had in his house an enchanted head that answered all who asked questions of it, Don Antonio, fearing it might come to the ears of the [[The Spanish Inquisition|watchful sentinels of our faith, explained the matter to the inquisitors]], who commanded him to break it up and have done with it, [[Pitying Perversion|lest the ignorant vulgar should be scandalized]].}}
 
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