Examples in Literary and Fictional Works
- Friar Tuck, of Robin Hood fame, is sometimes depicted as a whisky priest, although more often his physical weakness for food and drink is not shown as spiritual weakness.
- The main character in The Night of the Hunter would undoubtedly qualify as a whisky priest, and is in fact a murderer as well.
- Nicholas Wolfwood, from the anime series Trigun, may be considered a whisky priest.
- In the Discworld novel Small Gods by Terry Pratchett, most of the Omnian clergy could be considered whisky priests, with the exceptions of the genuinely holy Brutha, and the pathologically insane Vorbis.
- Father Jack Hackett in the Father Ted comedy series is a classic example.
- The character Enoch Root in the novels of Neal Stephenson also shares some of the characteristics of a whisky priest.
- Father Damien Karras in The Exorcist has some attributes of a whisky priest.
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