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[[File:brown-note 9042.png|frame|[[Classical Mythology|Medusa]] was a [[A Worldwide Punomenon|stone cold]] [[Taken for Granite|killer]].]]
A sound, image, or written work that has a physical or psychological effect on anyone who hears/sees/reads it. This can range from wounding/killing someone, causing them to [[Go Mad from the Revelation|go insane]], or become obsessed with the '''Brown Note''' to the exclusion of all other things (including eating, drinking, sleeping, and yes, even troping).
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Usually, [[Take Our Word for It|we don't get to see or hear it ourselves.]] Possibly, it is a type of [[MacGuffin]].
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When it is specifically a book, it can be a [[Tome of Eldritch Lore]] or a form of [[Reality Writing Book]]. Musical examples are extreme cases of [[Hell Is That Noise]], [[Ear Worm]] or possibly [[The Power of Rock]]. See also [[Magic Music]]. A lighter version used for torture would be [[Cool and Unusual Punishment]]. Can overlap with [[Suckiness Is Painful]], when the note is a [[Stylistic Suck|really bad work]].
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== Anime & Manga ==
* The ''[[Read or Die]]'' [[OVA]] revolves around a symphony that
** This is possibly based on the myth of the Hungarian song "Gloomy Sunday" (see [[Real Life]] below). It was so sad that it was dubbed the "Hungarian suicide song", and caused depressed people to kill themselves when they listened to it. This, however, was all a marketing ploy (while the original lyrics were thought to cause people to become depressed, they were almost completely changed when it was released outside Hungary), and no suicides were actually linked to the song.
** The manga also contains a scene where two captives are tortured with the audio version of ''The Dark Abyss'', a book bound in human flesh and printed by five different people, one page at a time, so they wouldn't succumb to it. The pair withstood the audiobook for some 4 minutes before caving in.
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