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* ''Fanfic/TheAccidentalWarlordAndHisPack'': Gustavus uses BloodMagic to ensure Aleksander cannot talk about the experiments in Velen to anyone not already part of the conspiracy.
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**Also, the super-injunction only binds ''English '' newspapers, so there’s nothing to restrain Scottish and Irish newspapers from reporting what they know.
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* ''VideoGame/BaldursGateIII'': [[spoiler:Due to his pact with Mizora Wyll can't actually disclose the circumstances that led to him making it until she gives him permission to. Indeed if he should try, the words seem to stop in his throat.]]
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* Creator/SheriSTepper's ''Literature/TheTrueGame'' series has an unusual variant: a character is prevented from speaking a certain piece of information, but is perfectly capable of writing it down. However, this bit of Tongue Tied is ''contagious'': any person who reads the information will be unable to speak it aloud, even if they've never met the beings who laid the Tongue Tied magic on it.

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* Creator/SheriSTepper's ''Literature/TheTrueGame'' series has an unusual variant: a character is prevented from speaking a certain piece of information, but is perfectly capable of writing it down. However, this bit of Tongue Tied is ''contagious'': any person who reads the information will be unable to speak it aloud, even if they've never met the beings who laid the Tongue Tied magic on it.
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* In Creator/OrsonScottCard's ''Literature/ShadowOfTheHegemon'', Sister Carlotta finds out the particulars of Bean's condition from a scientist who first proposed the theory. The scientist has to be very clever about telling her, because he has been conditioned to have a panic attack whenever he speaks about or even thinks about his old work.

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* In Creator/OrsonScottCard's ''Literature/ShadowOfTheHegemon'', * ''Literature/ShadowOfTheHegemon'': Sister Carlotta finds out the particulars of Bean's condition from a scientist who first proposed the theory. The scientist has to be very clever about telling her, because he has been conditioned to have a panic attack whenever he speaks about or even thinks about his old work.



* In the third book of Lynn Flewelling's ''Literature/{{Nightrunner}}: Tamir Triad'', the evil wizard puts one of these spells on the girl he forces the prince to marry, so she can't tell the prince of the wizard's machinations, including the fact that she's only a virgin because the wizard magically recreated her hymen.

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* In the third book of Lynn Flewelling's ''Literature/{{Nightrunner}}: Tamir Triad'', the evil wizard puts one of these spells on the girl he forces the prince to marry, so she can't tell the prince of the wizard's machinations, including the fact that she's only a virgin because the wizard magically recreated her hymen.



* The Aes Sedai in Robert Jordan's ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime'' are unable to lie due to a magical promise on the Oath Rod; consequently, when asked a direct question about a secret, the best they can do is give a misleading but true answer. With the result that many people don't believe them at all, since they know about this oath. There's also reason to believe that the Black Ajah have a magical compulsion against betraying their fellow darkfriends, which is why they can't reveal names even under torture.

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* The Aes Sedai in Robert Jordan's ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime'' are unable to lie due to a magical promise on the Oath Rod; consequently, when asked a direct question about a secret, the best they can do is give a misleading but true answer. With the result that many people don't believe them at all, since they know about this oath. There's also reason to believe that the Black Ajah have a magical compulsion against betraying their fellow darkfriends, which is why they can't reveal names even under torture.



* In Brunner's ''Literature/TheTravellerInBlack'', it is physically impossible for '''anyone''' to enunciate asking the Traveller who set him upon his mission. Interestingly, one stranger asks if he ''can'' ask the Traveller about this, and does speak successfully, because he's only querying ''if it's an option'' to ask. The amused Traveller gives him an honest answer: "No".

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* In Brunner's ''Literature/TheTravellerInBlack'', it ''Literature/TheTravellerInBlack'': It is physically impossible for '''anyone''' to enunciate asking the Traveller who set him upon his mission. Interestingly, one stranger asks if he ''can'' ask the Traveller about this, and does speak successfully, because he's only querying ''if it's an option'' to ask. The amused Traveller gives him an honest answer: "No".

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