Halakhah zu Bereschit 3:1

And if the yetzer hara sees that in these ways he cannot prevail over the man, he deceives him in reverse, being so stringent with him in the area of lashon hara until he sees everything as entering into the category of lashon hara, to the extent that he sees it as impossible to live life thus constrained unless he separates entirely from the affairs of the world — as per the device of the [primal] subtle serpent, who said [to Eve] (Genesis 3:1): "Did G–d really say do not eat from all the trees of the garden"? [(when, in reality, he had interdicted only the Tree of Knowledge)]