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* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'': In [[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S5E32MrGarrityAndTheGraves Mr. Garrity and the Graves]]. A con artist pulls a MonsterProtectionRacket scheme where he brings people back from the dead for free so that people will pay him money to return the dead back to their graves. In the end it is revealed that he was using magic tricks to fake bringing back the dead, but after he has already left the town, the dead actually do start to rise, because he wasn't aware that the resurrection ritual he performed really works.

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It just straight-up isn't what happens in the movie. The teens find and play a tape deck of someone else who genuinely believes in the book's magic, and playing his incantations by accident triggers the monsters.


* In ''Film/TheEvilDead1981'' they accidentally summon the evil dead by jokingly reading out from ''The Book of the Dead''.
* ''Film/TheShaggyDog'' In the original version, Wilby Daniels finds a ring with a Latin inscription in it: "''In Canis corpore transmuto''." He likes the sound of it and sings it to himself several times while holding the ring. Then he turns into a dog.

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* In ''Film/TheEvilDead1981'' they accidentally summon the evil dead by jokingly reading out from ''The Book of the Dead''.
* ''Film/TheShaggyDog''
In the original version, version of ''Film/TheShaggyDog'', Wilby Daniels finds a ring with a Latin inscription in it: "''In Canis corpore transmuto''." He likes the sound of it and sings it to himself several times while holding the ring. Then he turns into a dog.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheGhostAndMollyMcGee'': After Molly, Darryl, and Scratch watch a movie featuring a ghost shark, Scratch decides to jokingly summon it to prove to the [=McGees=] that there is no such thing. They spend the rest of the episode trying to survive it.
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* A short story called ''The Gazing Ball'' has a very benign example--a little girl's father buys a new home with a garden--within this garden is a faerie garden for her, complete with gazing ball. When she looks in the ball, she expects to see herself--but sees a fox-like creature, who likewise didn't expect to see a human girl in ''his'' gazing ball. The two begin a VERY long-distance friendship that takes an unexpected turn when their respective worlds make contact. Alas, by the time it's possible for their people to easily travel from one planet to another, a century has passed since the two first made contact, [[DreamCrushingHandicap which means they are far too old to make the trip]], and never see each other face-to-face. [[spoiler:They do, however, have a joyous meeting in the afterlife.]]

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