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** Parodied in ''[[Discworld/Sourcery|Sourcery]]'', where everyone else thinks the guy under the geas is talking about geese, leading to much confusion. {{spoiler|And then it turns out a geas really is a kind of bird.}}
** Parodied again in ''[[Discworld/A Hat Full of Sky|A Hat Full of Sky]]'' and ''[[Discworld/Wintersmith|Wintersmith]]'', where Rob Anybody is put under a geas by his wife, Jeannie, to protect Tiffany Aching. It becomes a [[Running Gag]] that Daft Wullie keeps thinking Rob means an actual goose.
{{quote| Rob: 'Tis a heavy thing, tae be under a geas.<br />
Daft Wullie: Well, they're big birds. }}
* In [[Clark Ashton Smith]]'s "The Seven Geases", the protagonist is put under of a sequence of, well, seven geases.