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Asking another question about Chance And Choices Adventures.
In the fifth book there's a scene where the characters are passing through a dangerous swamp at night. A local Bandit Clan tries to ambush them, but is frightened away by phantom soldiers that only they (the bandits) are able to see.
I know for a fact this idea comes from a fairly well known sermon, telling the story of a group of missionaries in Africa who are saved from a tribal raid in the same manner.
I'm not sure what this should be listed as.
I want to say Very Loosely Based on a True Story, but it's just one tiny element of the story that gets carried over, so I'm not sure it counts. (Also the veracity of the sermon is highly debated, with many people believing it's just a parable, but I don't think this would count as Based on a Great Big Lie because I think that requires intent.)
I was thinking it could be Shout-Out, but can you do a Shout-Out to a sermon?
EDIT: I also have Very Loosely Based on a True Story listed for the fact that a lot of the locations in the series are real - for example, the main characters' hometown of Harmony, Arkansas is a real place and is even in the same spot it's at in real life, however all of the characters and events are fictional. Is this proper usage of that trope, or should it be something else?
Edited by Mimic1990