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-->''"''Gone! Gone! -- the form of man. Rise, the Demon Etrigan!!"''

-->'''Cam:''' ''(reading from notebook)'' "To make an object disappear, tap it twice and say 'Oh dear'"?

* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' combines this with SdrawkcabSpeech in the finale: Right before he's [[RetGone erased from existence]], [[BigBad Bill Cipher]] begins yelling out gibberish that when played backwards says "Axolotl! My time has come to burn! I invoke the ancient power that I may return!"

-->--''WesternAnimation/SleepingBeauty''

** In one storyline where the Joker tries to summon Satan, he accidentally summons Etrigan instead; turns out that because he used a translation of the ritual that made it rhyme, it snagged the one demon most well known for rhyming instead of the Big D himself.

* ''ComicBook/SupermanVsShazam'': [[EvilSorcerer Karmang]] chants an invoking spell which takes the form of a little rhyming poem to summon ComicBook/BlackAdam and the [[ComicBook/KryptoniteNevermore Sand Superman]] to his presence.

-->'''Alexandra''': ''Girls, I'm turning off your ears / What comes next, only Alex hears.''

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** [[spoiler: Sarah Ravencroft is revealed to be a real, evil witch, and her descendant, Ben, a warlock, when the gang uncovers Sarah's journal full of rhyming spells. Thorn, who is descended from a Wiccan (basically the film's [[ArtisticLicenseReligion Artistic License]] term for a "[[GoodWitchVersusBadWitch good witch]]"), is also able to use one of these spells to seal Sarah back into the book.]]

[[folder:Films - Live-Action]]

-->'''Granny''': "Baboon hair and mandrake root", and if that's real mandrake I'm very surprised, "carrot juice and tongue of boot", I see, a little humour, I suppose...

-->'''Baba Yaga''': ''Spirits of the frigid north, spin the water, draw it forth; Frosty Spirits, summoned twice, turn the water into ice.''

--->'''Lightspeed incantation''': ''Sheathe my feet in the driving gale; make swift these legs o'er land I sail!''

--->'''Sun Imp''': ''A crystal ball is all I lack; take this spell and send it back!''

[[folder: Real Life]]

** Several of Rita's early Season 1 monsters in ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'' were summoned by her using a rhyming incantation (eg. "Sky of fire, Wind of fright, Send to me a Knasty Knight!"). She'd also sometimes use one to make a monster giant in place of her usual "MakeMyMonsterGrow" {{Catchphrase}}.

* ''WesternAnimation/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs'': The Evil Queen, when preparing the poisoned apple.

--> chanting under her breath, giving the magic form and purpose. ''"Time erodes all that is made. Weakens iron and crumbles stone. Undermines all that is laid. Time is lord and time alone."'' This spell should have the effect of accelerating the hand of time there, and weakening both the bolts and the cement.

** Several of Rita's early Season 1 monsters in ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'' were summoned by her using a rhyming incantation (eg. "Sky of fire, Wind of fright, Send to me a Knasty Knight!"). She'd also sometimes use one to make a monster giant in lieu of her usual MakeMyMonsterGrow {{Catchphrase}}.

* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' combines this with SdrawkcabSpeech in the finale: Right before he's [[RetGone erased from existence]], [[BigBad Bill Cipher]] begins yelling out gibberish that when played backwards says "Axolotl! My time has come to burn! I invoke the ancient power that I may return!"

* Subverted in the ''ComicBook/ReturnOfTheDefenders'' storyline in the 1992 annuals for ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk, ComicBook/SubMariner, ComicBook/SilverSurfer, and ComicBook/DoctorStrange titles, after Strange cast a spell, Namor notes how it did not remotely rhyme, and Strange chastises him for expecting it to.
* In ''ComicBook/SupermanVsShazam'', [[EvilSorcerer Karmang]] chants an invoking spell which takes the form of a little rhyming poem to summon ComicBook/BlackAdam and the [[ComicBook/KryptoniteNevermore Sand Superman]] to his presence.

** Jinxer and Toxica of ''Series/PowerRangersLightspeedRescue'' and ''Series/PowerRangersWildForce'' respectively would use rhyming spells to make monsters giant. While Jinxer usually used different rhymes depending on the occasion, Toxica growth spell was always "Ancient Spirits of Toil and Strife, Give this fallen Org new life!"

* ''WesternAnimation/TangledTheSeries'': In "[[Recap/TangledTheSeriesS2E14RapunzelAndTheGreatTree Rapunzel And The Great Tree]]", Rapunzel recites and eventually sings the lyrics of the Hurt, a.k.a Reverse, a.k.a Decay Incantation when visiting The Great Tree. As she sings, her hair and eyes turn black and everything in the room begins to decay. It's an ABCB rhyme:

-->'''Lightspeed incantation''': ''Sheathe my feet in the driving gale; make swift these legs o'er land I sail!''

-->'''Sun Imp''': ''A crystal ball is all I lack; take this spell and send it back!''

* ''VideoGame/QuestForGlory'' In the [[VideoGame/QuestForGloryI first]] and [[VideoGame/QuestForGloryIV fourth]] games, Literature/BabaYaga does her incarnations in rhyme. The fact that the fourth game has spoken words really sells it.

* ''WebAnimation/BattleForDreamIsland'': Leafy uses the rhyme from WesternAnimation/BluesClues to hop into a map of Yoyleland, singing: "Blue Skidoo and we can too" in Season 2.

* SelfDemonstrating/GruntildaWinkybunion in ''VideoGame/BanjoKazooie''. She takes this UpToEleven, as you can clearly see...

* ''Literature/{{Spellsinger}}'': Jon-Tom doesn't ''have'' to rhyme when he uses magic, but as he uses classic rock and roll songs to cast spells they usually do. Awkward lyrics tend to weaken his spells (or make them more difficult to control.

* ''Series/{{Bewitched}}'': While most of the witches' magical acts can be accomplished by merely twitching their noses, sometimes they will recite a rhyme. For instance, in one episode, Endora tries to teach Tabitha a spell that goes ''"Wizards from the yesteryear, from this moment disappear!"''.

''Series/{{Bewitched}}'': While most of the witches' magical acts can be accomplished by merely twitching their noses, sometimes they will recite a rhyme. For instance, in one episode, Endora tries to teach Tabitha a spell that goes ''"Wizards from the yesteryear, from this moment disappear!"''.

* In Creator/PiersAnthony's ''Literature/ApprenticeAdept'' series, all of Stiles's spells have to be in rhyming verse. Slightly complicated by the fact that each incantation [[ItOnlyWorksOnce only works once]], ever.

* The ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' novel ''Literature/WyrdSisters'' has a pastiche of the "hubble bubble" scene from ''Literature/{{Macbeth}}'' (below). Granny Weatherwax, who thinks this sort of thing is unnecessary and dangerously wizard-like, isn't impressed by some of the rhymes.

* In the first ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}'' film, Fiona recites the spell which condemned her to turn into an ogre at night; Donkey thinks she is reciting poetry.
--> '''Fiona:''' ''By night one way, by day another, this shall be the norm; then you find true love's first kiss, and then take love's true form.''
--> '''Donkey:''' That's beautiful, I didn't know you wrote poetry.
--> '''Fiona:''' (sadly) It's a spell.

--> ''Flower, gleam and glow''
--> ''Let your power shine''
--> ''Make the clock reverse''
--> ''Bring back what once was mine''

--> '''Cam:''' ''(reading from notebook)'' "To make an object disappear, tap it twice and say 'Oh dear'"?
--> '''Alex:''' What? I was seven when I wrote that! Give me some credit that it even rhymed.

* In ''Literature/TheFolkKeeper'', the Power of the Last Word is the ability to compose rhyming verse to which forces fae creatures such as the Folk to submit to the will of the speaker. Pre-composed or previously used poetry will not work; the Power of the Last Word can only be exercised through original and spontaneously inspired verse.

* ''Literature/MagicTreeHouse'': the series incorporates this with its magic. Teddy uses rhymes to cast spells, and in the second four book arc of the Merlin Missions Jack and Annie are given a spellbook with ten rhyming verses they must chant to use them, with half being in English and the other half being in Kathleen's selkie language.

* ''Series/WizardsOfWaverlyPlace'': has most of its spells in some way rhyme. In the ninth episode, "Movies," when the kids are learning about creating their own spells, it's explained that Alex, Justin, or Max can say a few stanzas that rhyme in order for them to cast magic to do almost anything. They are very context sensitive however, where saying something one way can mean another, which can cause a number of variable results. For example, from the same episode: ''"Satisfy my empty belly, make me a peanut butter and jelly"'' will turn the user into a peanut butter and jelly sandwich instead of making them said sandwich.

* ''Theatre/FiniansRainbow'': Og casts a spell on the blackened Rawkins to cure him of his ill humor, while chanting in rhyme.

* ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'': The Ghost Writer's reality bending ability requires him to narrate events in rhyming prose. To the point his powers will become disabled if he is unable to come up with an adequate rhyme for the situation.
* The classic WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck cartoon "Trick or Treat" has a witch (voiced by Creator/JuneForay) brew a potion to help Huey, Dewey and Louie bedevil their uncle Donald:

[[caption-width-right:625:''Now my Lizard Wizard, make a gizzard blizzard!'']]

Index: MagicAndPowers, RhymeTropes