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A subtrope of [[The Plague]]. Compare [[Synthetic Plague]], [[The Virus]], and [[Depopulation Bomb]]. Can overlap with [[Fisher King]], in cases where the [[Mystical Plague]] is caused by the actions of a kingdom's ruler.
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** 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.
* This occurs in Mark Chadbourn's book ''The Queen of Sinister'', part of the ''[[The Age of Misrule (Literature)|The Age of Misrule]]'' [[Verse]]. Magic has come back, technology has failed and there is [[Eldritch Abomination|something]] lurking beyond even the mystical otherworlds of the dead and the gods that kinda, sorta, wants to destroy humanity utterly. A mystical plague that kills human life essence itself (basically 100% fatal, and dissolves its victims flesh leaving them just a load of pus inside a bag of skin and since it comes from the otherworld there is no known vector, source, or cure for the disease) is the chosen tool for this book. Too bad for it that two of the early victims were the son and husband of a woman that is an unknowing mystical champion of humanity, and the plague which was supposed to destroy her wakes that mystical potential. [[Nice Job Fixing It, Villain]].
* In ''Temple of the Winds'' of the [[Sword of Truth]] series, [[The Empire|The Imperial Order]] unleashes a plague, based on the Black Death and made ''much'' worse by magic, on the heroes' capital city. For bonus [[Kick the Dog]] points, [[Big Bad|Emperor Jagang]] deliberately infects a group of young children as patients zero.
* The [[Tortall Universe|Song of the Lioness]] quartet has one early on: the Sweating Sickness is sent by an evil duke in hopes that it will weaken the kingdom and kill [[Succession Crisis|everyone who stands in his way]] to the throne.
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