History Main / PlaceOfProtection

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* In ''{{Manga/Berserk}}'', Schierke is able to set up a massive defensive spell over a church... because the church had been built over a sanctuary to one of the elemental spirits.
* In ''Anime/HighlanderTheSearchForVengeance'' immortals are not allowed to fight on holy ground (just like in the live-action ''Highlander'' films). In one scene an immortal refuses to put his weapon away while standing on holy ground, and he is immediately struck by lightning.
* Mount Hakurei in Manga/InuYasha is a place so holy demons are purified just by setting foot on it. [[spoiler: The BigBad Naraku hides within the mountain using its holy barrier by placing the [[RevenantZombie undead monk]] who keeps the barrier under MoreThanMindControl.]]

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* Some variations of Tag - you know, that game where you run around until whoever is "it" tags you - have safe areas or similar.

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* DC Comics' ComicBook/BlueDevil is a devout Catholic, who had the misfortune to be turned into a demon. The result is a blue guy being immolated by holy fire every time he goes to church. You'd think either he'd take this as a sign or God would arrange some kind of waiver after a while.
* In ''Comicbook/BlackestNight'', Franchise/WonderWoman uses her lasso to consecrate an area, causing any zombie that sets foot on it to be reduced to ash.

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* Any "HolyGround" in the original ''Film/{{Highlander}}'' film, at least from other immortals, though it is unclear whether it's some unwritten rule of the Game that even the outright villainous immortals abide by (either because EvenEvilHasStandards or because [[PragmaticVillainy they too benefit from being able to rest awhile without having to watch their backs]]) or if there's more supernatural consequences. [[Series/HighlanderTheSeries The TV series]] went with the latter interpretation.
* ''Film/Warlock1989'': The title BigBad is a Satanic creature who can't set foot on holy ground.
* In ''Tribulation'' from the {{Film/Apocalypse}} film series, Tom Canboro is being chased through a hospital by a One Nation Earth agent who uses his mind powers to close all doors in the hallway so his prey cannot escape -- all except for one room that Tom enters, which turns out to be a chapel which provides for him a means of escape.

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* [[Creator/JRRTolkien Tolkien]] has a few examples:

* ''Stedding'' in ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime'' are zones of AntiMagic that also keep out the forces of darkness, providing safety against most forms of supernatural threat. They don't prevent mundane violence, but exude an ambient sense of peacefulness so that nobody wants to fight. On top of this, many of them are inhabited by Ogier, who hold to a strict nonviolence policy and enforce it for any visitors.

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* In the Literature/WhateleyUniverse, just off the campus of SuperheroSchool Whateley Academy, is 'The Grove', a GeniusLoci forest which physically keeps out the unwanted and attacks undesired visitors, while protecting beings it wants (like [[TheFairFolk Fey]]). Students and security forces are warned not to try to go in there, at their own peril.

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* In ''[[WesternAnimation/TheSmurfsTheLegendOfSmurfyHollow The Smurfs: The Legend Of Smurfy Hollow]]'', the covered bridge serves as one from the Headless Horseman for the Smurfs as well as for Gargamel and Azrael -- that is, until Gargamel decides to [[DoNotTauntCthulhu taunt the Headless Horseman]]. The Headless Horseman cannot cross the bridge, but he can still throw a flaming pumpkin into it.

* ''Film/{{Warlock}}'' (1989). The title BigBad is a Satanic creature who can't set foot on holy ground.

* In ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' Light's Hope Chapel weakens the Lich King because of the souls of all the heroes buried beneath it.

* Any 'sacred ground' in the ''Franchise/{{Highlander}}'' 'verse might fit, though it is unclear whether it's an actual place of protection or they won't fight there because of their rules.
** The series seems to imply that it's only a rule.

->''Brown-robe types are always protecting something. It's the only way they can justify giving up girls.''

Some places are so holy or magical that they have the property of protecting those inside the location from harm, either by keeping out ghosts, demons, or other supernatural beings, or by preventing any sort of violence or evil from occuring there.

* In the ''VideoGame/QuestForGlory'' series of games, places where [[FriendToAllLivingThings Erana]] has been are protected by her magic, and are safe havens for the hero to sleep at night. The town in the first game also has her spell cast over it, preventing any violence from occuring there, except for in the back of the alley and the graveyard.
* In ''VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue''/''Yellow'' Lavender Tower had a "purified" area near the top which restored all your {{mon}}'s health and PP. It implied it was simply enchanted to keep ghost pokemon out, allowing the player to rest (since other such non-Pokecentre "heal" points tended to be beds).

* ''WebAnimation/{{Dreamscape}}'': The Well of Power. Its a secret location which provides the planet with natural energy, and where Kai and Eleenin monitor the state of the planet.