Editing Cloak (section)

==In literature and the arts==
[[File:Moctezuma Xocoyotzin.png|thumb|[[Aztec emperor]] [[Moctezuma II]] wearing a tilmàtli.]]
[[File:Couple cloak Louvre G99.jpg|thumb|Couple hiding under the same cloak, fragment of an [[Ancient Greece|Ancient Greek]] [[Red-figure pottery|red-figure]] cup, ca. 525 BC–500 BC, found in Athens. [[Louvre]] Museum, Paris.]]
According to the [[King James Version]] of the Bible, Matthew recorded Jesus of Nazareth saying in Matthew 5:40: "And if any man will sue thee at the law, and take away thy coat, let him have thy cloke also."  The King James Version of the Bible has the words recorded a little differently in Luke 6:29: "...and him that taketh away thy cloke, forbid not to take thy coat also."

Cloaks are a staple garment in the [[fantasy]] genre due to the popularity of [[medieval]] settings. They are also usually associated with [[witch]]es, [[Wizard (fantasy)|wizard]]s, and [[vampire]]s; the best-known stage version of ''[[Dracula (novel)|Dracula]],'' which first made actor [[Bela Lugosi]] prominent, featured him wearing it so that his exit through a trap door concealed on the stage could seem sudden. When Lugosi reprised his role as Dracula for the 1931 [[Universal Pictures|Universal Studios]] motion picture version of the play, he retained the cloak as part of his outfit, which made such a strong impression that cloaks came to be equated with [[Count Dracula]] in nearly all non-historical media depictions of him.

Fantasy cloaks are often [[Magic (paranormal)|magical]]. For example, they may grant the person wearing it [[invisibility]] as in the ''[[Harry Potter]]'' series by [[J. K. Rowling]]. A similar sort of garment is worn by the members of the Fellowship of the Ring in ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' by [[J. R. R. Tolkien]], although instead of granting complete invisibility, the Elf-made cloaks simply appear to shift between any natural color (e.g. green, gray, brown) to help the wearer to blend in with his or her surroundings. In the [[Marvel Comics|Marvel]] [[American comic books|comic book]] stories and in the [[Marvel Cinematic Universe]], the sorcerer [[Doctor Strange]] is associated with a magical [[Cloak of Levitation]], which not only enables its wearer to [[levitation (paranormal)|levitate]], but has other mystical abilities as well. [[Doctor Strange]] also uses it as a weapon. Alternatively, cloaks in fantasy may nullify magical [[projectile]]s, as the "cloak of magic resistance" in [[NetHack]].