Stricture is a punishment carried out by magicians on their demons. A web of white threads that prevent any object or sound escaping their range. More often used on humans than on spirits, due to the fact that if there is even the tiniest flaw in the stricture, the spirit can usually escape, and if that fails, stronger spirits can simply blast their way out. Jessica Whitwell uses it on Mandrake and Bartimaeus and nearly prevents them stopping Simon Lovelace, but the disruption Ramuthra causes blows the stricture apart, so that Mandrake and Bartimaeus were free.
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