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== Tabletop Games ==
* ''[[Dungeons and Dragons]]'' has many of these, called "cursed magical items", such as the hand and eye of Vecna, especially if used together.
** ... and which led to the commonplayer-versus-player joketrap about the[[The Head of Vecna]]. To use the Hand, you must first cut off your own hand and attach the Hand to the stump. To use the Eye, you must put out your own eye. The Head of Vecna would have been a sort of ''[[Too Dumb to Live|instant]]'' Artifact of Death
** The AD&D 2nd edition rules gave a chance of accidentally creating one of these ''anytimeany time'' a character crafts some magical item.
* Most daemon weapons in ''[[Warhammer 40000]]'' tend to lead to their owner's death eventually. That is, if they're lucky... But if they're ''very'' lucky, it leads to death and ascension to [[Eldritch Abomination|Daemon Prince.]]
** The [[Heroic RROD|Spear of Ulthanash]] is a specifically mentioned example; it was once considered too dangerous to use because it binds itself to the user and slowly drains his soul, until [[Godzilla Threshold|the Tyranids attacked the Craftworld where it was sealed away]] and Yriel had to take the Spear from stasis to kill the central beast of the [[Hive Mind]] and drive the Tyranids from his home.