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* [[J. R. R. Tolkien|JRR Tolkien]] seems to have liked this trope:
** ''[[The Silmarillion]]'' mentions a plague apparently sent by Sauron to weaken Gondor so he could regain control of Mordor.
{{quote| "And in the days of Telemnar, the third and twentieth of the line of Meneldil, a plague came upon dark winds out of the east, and it smote the King and his children, and many of the people of Gondor perished. Then the forts on the borders of Mordor were deserted, and Minas Ithil was emptied of its people; and evil entered again into the Black Land secretly, and the ashes of Gorgoroth were stirred as by a cold wind, for dark shapes gathered there."}}
** A mystical plague is used in the same work to account for the death of Turin Turambar's younger sister Lalaith.
* ''[[The Dresden Files]]'' claims that the Black Death was originally created by Fallen Angels through magic. The book ''Death Masks'' centered on Harry recovering a religious artifact before the Fallen could use it to create another plague.