text: Other related stories Similar themes (such as the power of magic or technology turning against the insufficiently wise person invoking it) are found in many traditions and works of art. Comparative mythologist Patrice Lajoye argues for a parallel between the Brythonic legend of Taliesin and a Russian fairy tale, Le savoir magique, collected by Alexander Afanasyev with both stories being classified as ATU 325. As referenced by Joseph Jacobs in his English Fairy Tales, Joseph Tunison (1849–1916) analysed several apocryphal medieval tales of Roman poet Virgil, including one where Virgil summons and banishes an evil entity. Scholarship acknowledges the popularity of the tale type in Yiddish folklore.
  17th-century French author Eustace le Noble also wrote a literary variant of the tale type with L'apprenti magicien.
  In mythology
  Midas
  Golem
  Abhimanyu in Chakravyuha in the Mahabharata
  The Sañjīva Jātaka story about the boastful pupil who is killed by the tiger he brought to life with a spell, without yet being taught the counter-spell by his teacher.
  In folk and fairy tales
  "Maestro Lattantio and His Apprentice Dionigi"
  "The Master and his Pupil"
  "The Thief and His Master"
  "Sweet Porridge"
  "The Magic Book"
  "Farmer Weathersky"
  Faust
  Krabat
  In literature
  Strega Nona
  Frankenstein
  "The Monkey's Paw"
  The Man Who Could Work Miracles (and numerous other works by H. G. Wells)
  Cultural and popular culture uses of the story