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== Literature ==
* In [[Tamora Pierce]]'s ''[[Tortall Universe|Tortall]]'' books, breaking an oath signed in blood will result in one's blood boiling in one's veins.
* Used in ''[[Harry Potter (Franchise)/Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire|Harry Potter]]''. When the Goblet says Harry has to compete, well, Harry has to compete. Even though ''he didn't enter himself for consideration as a contestant'', he has to compete, rather than the forger who put his name in the Goblet (although it's explained earlier that they're technically nominating someone, it just so happened no one was expected to nominate someone other than themselves).
** Introduced in ''[[Harry Potter (Franchise)/Harry Potter and The Half-Blood Prince|Harry Potter]]'' is the "Unbreakable Vow", which kills you if you attempt to break it.
** In the fifth book, Hermione turns the "member's list" of the DA into one. The result being that when {{spoiler|one of the members rats them out, she ends up with the word "SNEAK" written across her face in pimples.}} [[Your Mileage May Vary]] on whether she [[Disproportionate Retribution|went too far]], although [[Word of God]] states that the effect wore off eventually (J.K. Rowling claims to hate traitors, so she presumably likes this trope).
* In ''The [[Wheel of Time]]'', any oath taken by a mage while passing her magic through a tool called "the Oath Rod" is magically binding, though it can be removed by the same object. When created in [[Crystal Spires and Togas|the Age of Legends]] the rod was simply called a "binder", and was only used against intractably criminal mages (understandably, given the side effects - also now forgotten) to seal their powers.
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