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* This is noticeably averted in ''[[House of Leaves]]'' when in Johnny Truant's written introduction, he explicitly says that everything...''The Navidson Record'', all of the commentary on it in the book, ''all of it''...is fake or made-up. He hasn't been able to contact anyone who has ever heard of the film. The irony, according to him, is that what's real and what's not doesn't matter in the end since the consequences are the same. In a slightly more specific case, Johnny recounts a period of time where he lived with a doctor friend and his wife, and started going on medication, and generally getting his life back together. {{spoiler|The chapter ends with him telling the reader he was making it up completely, and ''laughing at the reader'' for believing it.}}
* [[Joyce Carol Oates]] was inspired by news of the mysterious death of a college student to write the story ''Landfill''. If anyone interpreted that story as being what actually happened, it would be a serious libel on the student's frat brothers and others. Faced by criticism from the student's family and accused of [[Ripped from the Headlines|sensationalism and exploitation]], Oates said that the story was never meant to be taken as anything but fiction, and that she writes however she's inspired to, news being an important source of ideas for her.
* Many fairy tales derived from tales of the lives of saints, such as St. Barbara ("[[Rapunzel]]") or St. Margaret of Cartona ("[[Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs (novel)|Snow White]]"). Alternatively, a number of people have been cited as possible inspirations for the fairy tale characters in question, like with [[wikipedia:Margaretha von Waldeck|Margaretha von Waldeck]] and Snow White.
* The middle section of ''[[Special Circumstances|Princess of Wands]]'' was inspired by the events at RavenCon, a [[Science Fiction]] convention, in 2006. Needless to say, there was no battle with a demon at RavenCon.
* ''[[Romance of the Three Kingdoms]]'' was written a thousand years after the events it depicts, and takes far more inspiration from the various legends that had grown around the major figures of the Three Kingdoms period, even freely mixing in supernatural events.
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* The Battle of Roncevaux Pass was a battle where the rear-guard of Charlemagne's army was massacred in the Pyrenees by a small guerrilla force of Basque Christians. In ''[[The Song of Roland]]'' the battle is between a small Christian rear-guard and a massive army of Saracen Muslims, takes place in Spain, and ends with the entire Saracen army destroyed by the main body of the army. Really, the story only resembles the historical event inasmuch as Charlemagne's rear-guard was destroyed.
* The heroic poem ''[[Jerusalem Delivered]]'' is about the siege of Jerusalem during the First Crusade. Only it takes place two years later, lasts six months, involves non-real heroes on both sides, involves a demonic forest and magic, and distorts the historic figures involved (Bishop Adhemar was not shot in the eye with an arrow but died of illness and Godfrey was not elected king until after the sack of the city).
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