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* [[Older Than Dirt]]: This trope goes back to ''[[The Epic of Gilgamesh]]''. The capricious goddess Inanna (Ishtar) wants to hook up with the hero, Gilgamesh, because he's [[Even the Guys Want Him|exceptionally comely]]. But he wants no part of it because, as he points out with brutal candor, every single guy she's ever spent time with lived to regret it. Result? Goddess rage.
* ''[[Howl's Moving Castle (novel)|Howl's Moving Castle]]'': The Witch of the Waste's love interest is the wizard Howl, who tries to escape her from fear.
* In ''[[The Odyssey]]'', [[Vain Sorceress| Circe]] ''and'' [[Siren| Calypso]] towards Odysseus.
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