Taken from the site
http://www.atpobtvs.com/magic.html .
In time, I will go into the sublinks of these spells and figure out what they all do. Enjoy!
SpellsClear examples of the use of spells in BtVS:-
Detecting a witch Giles finds a spell involving some of the witch's hair, quicksilver (mercury), aqua fortis (nitric acid), and eye of newt. In the science lab, Willow puts a frog's eye and the chemicals in a beaker that sits above a Bunsen burner. Buffy steals some of Catherine-in-Amy's-body's-hair off of her brush. Willow adds the hair, mixes the ingredients, and pours some of the liquid into a test-tube. Buffy spills it on Catherine/Amy's arm. Since she had cast a spell in the previous 48 hours, her skin turns blue.
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The transpossession, debilitating enemies, and bloodstone vengeance spells (The Witch) Transpossession spell: Catherine Madison "switched bodies" with her daughter Amy--in other words, used a spell to effect the transmigration of her spirit to her daughter's body and vice versa. Amy does not recall this event, only that she woke up in her mother's bed and in her mother's body.
Debilitating enemies spells: Catherine uses doll surrogates (a voodoo spell?) to debilitate her enemies. For example, when she blinds a doll representing Cordelia, the real Cordelia is blinded. During this ritual, she says,
Give me the power. Give me the dark. I call on you, the laughing gods. Let your blackness crawl beneath my skin. Accept thy sacrifice... of Cordelia. Feed on her.The bloodstone vengeance spell: this spell hits the body hard, eradicating the immune system and causing the enemy's death in a matter of hours. Catherine places this spell on Buffy using her charm bracelet, intending to kill her for her interference.
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Reversing witch spells Reversing the spells: Giles and Amy use Dr. Gregory's chemistry equipment and Catherine's spell book. The spell involves another potion which includes eye of newt. Giles mixes the ingredients and recites the spell:
The center is dark. Centrum est obscurus. The darkness breathes. Tenebrae respiratis. The listener hears. Hear me! ...Unlock the gate. Let the darkness shine. Cover us with holy fear. Show me... Corsheth and Gilail! The gate is closed! Receive the dark! Be sated! Release the unworthy! Release! Release! RELEASE! There is a flash of light and the spells are all broken. The identity of "Corsheth and Gilail" is not clear. They may be demons, or they may be some sort of gods.
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Catherine's spell to put Buffy in the trophy Catherine's spell to put Buffy in the trophy: This spell calls upon a mystical power named Corsheth:
I shall look upon my enemy! I shall look upon her and the dark place will have her soul! Corsheth, take her!With this simple supplication, Catherine, her eyes pitch black, lifts up her hands and sends a bolt of energy towards Buffy.
- Turning children into their costumes
- The Cordy love-spell and the rat transformation spell (BBB, Gingerbread)
- Exorcising poltergeists
- Immolating the Glove of Myhnegon
- Lover's walk: the de-lusting spell for Xander and Willow and the love spell for Drusilla and Spike
- Summoning Anyanka
- Willow's protection spells in Gingerbread and Bad Girls
- Lifting the veil of the Hansel-and-Gretel Demon
- The Clouding Spell
- Binding the Hellmouth
- Creating a temporal fold
- Returning VampWillow to the alternate history
- Reversing the aspect of the demon
- The Breath of the Entropics
- Destroying the Box of Gavrok
- Reversing a soul transfer
- The Guiding Spell
- Making beer "bad"
- Binding a Ghost (RWAV, CWDP)
- Willow's vengeance curse (WAH)
- The Sensitivity Spell
- The "I Will It So" spell
- The Truth Spell
- Supplication to Thespia (the spell to detect demons)
- Ionizing the atmosphere
- The augmentation spell
- The joining spell
- Summoning the elements
- The confounding spell
- The Tinkerbell spell
- The Blind-to-demons spell
- Weakening an enemy
- Creating sunshine
- Trapping Olaf in the crystal
- Releasing Olaf's hammer
- Sending Olaf to the Troll dimension
- Disappearing and reappearing the cash register
- Turning Olaf into a troll
- The early warning spell
- Teleporting a Hellgod
- The deoculation charm
- Raising Joyce
- The Tara-protection spell
- The spells of Darkest Magick
- The supplication to Osiris (raising Buffy)
- Incarnating the thaumogenesis demon
- The sanctorium spell
- Body-switching
- Time-looping Buffy
- Erasing Tara's memory
- The sanctorium spell, pt 2
- The Tabula Rasa spell
- De-ratting Amy
- Rack's black magic spells
- Breaking a force-field
- Retrieving a wayward person
- The spell to enchant the cerebral dampener
- Releasing the sword demon
- Locating the orbs
- Closing the Quortoth fissure
- Locating Warren
- The Sumerian protection spell
- Reassigning someone's sex
- Returning missing memories
- Locating potential slayers
- Delothrian's Arrow
- The Turkish Conjuration
- The Memory Mojo
- Altering the calling of Slayers
- Summoning the dead
- Throwing Wolfram and Hart out of whack
- Removing Enochian glyphs
- Cloaking a television signal
- Unlocking a lock spell
- The memory/reality altering spell
- Angel's Wolfram and Hart glamor
How do spells work? One fan speculates:
I'd say that the electrical currents set up by the witches brain when reciting a spell create a sort of lens for natural forces to funnel through and effect change. The magic circle, whatever ingredients or actions that accompany the spell are part of the lens, and direct the focus (Dianne, Dec 14 19:30 199
cool .
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