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== Literature ==

** Of course, the latter may be a legit consequence of the former, because ordinary spells don't blow up the whole street.

* In the second ''[[Montmorency]]'' novel, an explosive terrorist attack at a train station is covered up in this manner.

* This trope is used both literally and in the more general sense repeatedly in the ''Dresden Files'' novels as a theme illustrating the hapless nature of non-magical humans.

* In the [[Kim Newman]] ''Diogenes Club'' story "Moon Moon Moon", the area around a magical working is cordened off by police because of an "anthrax spill". Jeperson comments to his American counterpart that if every anthrax spill in Britain was genuine, the whole country would be awash with the stuff. She replies that her superiors prefer "experimental nerve gas" ... unless it ''is'' experimental nerve gas, in which case they blame it on foot-and-mouth disease.

* In the ''[[Alex Rider]]'' book ''Eagle Strike'', this is the explanation put out for the murder attempt on Edward Pleasure's life.