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** Done by a whole bunch of six inch-high Nac Mac Feegle in ''[[A Hat Full of Sky]]''. Said Feegles uses the same trick in ''[[Wintersmith]]''. It helps that, although everyone notices how weird they look, whenever someone tells them to get lost they just start [[Screw the Rules, I Have Money|waving around scads of money.]]
** In ''[[Moving Pictures]]'', the ticket lady at the movie theater suspects one of the wizards of being this, when she spots his (fake!) false beard.
* Slytherin students use this to impersonate dementors in ''[[Harry Potter/Harry Potter and Thethe Prisoner of Azkaban (novel)|Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban]]''. Knowing why the culprits are doing this (Harry is afraidbadly ofaffected by dementors), the teachers are ''not'' amused—especially not McGonagall.
* A similar trick was used unsuccessfully in ''[[Welkin Weasels]]: Thunder Oak'', involving nine ferrets in a human-sized suit of armor.
* In the children's novel ''Down Town'', Cary's first uncanny encounter is with an apparent bag lady. The accompanying illustration makes it clear that this is actually a whole lot of tiny humanoid creatures dressed up in old clothes.