Cora's Spell Book

The Book of Spells is a magical item featured on ABC's Once Upon a Time. It first appears in the second episode of the second season.

Types of Spells

 * Immobilization spell
 * Barrier spell
 * Shielding spell
 * Summoning spell
 * Memory spell - Erases and wipes out a designated period of time in a person's memory. The person affected by the spell will have no recollection nor any sense of having forgotten the memories.

Trivia

 * As Regina looks through the book to restore her magical powers, there are alchemical symbols printed on the pages —Fusion, Flowing Melting, Composition 2, Fixation, Filtration 1, part of Lutation Sealing 2, Extraction of Dryness, Filtration 2, Lutation Sealing 1, Fire of Circulation 2, Grades of Fire, Fire of Circulation 1, Dry, and Distillation 2.
 * When young Regina summons Rumplestiltskin, the Sigillum Dei, a late Middle Ages magical diagram, is pictured on the page with Rumplestiltskin's name on it. The page also shows the astrological symbols for Aries (♈), Gemini (♊) and Leo (♌).
 * This page also contains stanza V and stanza VI from the Latin poem "Estuans Intrinsecus" (also known as the "Confession") by the 12th century Latin poet Archipoeta.

Via lata gradior more iuventutis implico me vitiis immemor virtutis

voluptatis avidus magis quam salutis

mortuus in anima curam gero cutis

Presul discretissime veniam te precor

Morte bona morior

dulci nece necor

Meum pectus sauciat

puellarum decor

Et quas tactu nequeo

saltem corde moechor


 * Which translates as:


 * "I walk down a broad way, as is the habit of youth, I get involved in vices, oblivious of virtue. Avid of pleasure more than of salvation, Dead in soul, I take care of the skin (body)."


 * "Oh, most discreet prelate, I am asking you for pardon; I am dying a good death, perishing a sweet perish; My breast is wounded by the beauty of girls, And with those whom I cannot touch I commit adultery at least in my heart."


 * One page shows a Transmutation Circle, which is believed to help an alchemist focus their energy to change one item into another (such as lead into gold).
 * The opposite page contains the last stanzas (XWII - XIX) from "the Confession" (note that this rendering of the poem has a few misspellings, and some words are repeated; also, the words written in red are not actually part of the poem, and appear to be gibberish):

Iam virtutes diligo viciis irascor

Renovatus animo,

spiritu renascor,

Quasi modo genitus

novo lacte pascor,

Ne sit meum amplius

vanitatis vas cor.

Electe Coloniae, parce poenitenti,

Fac misericordiam

veniam petenti

Et da poenitentiam

culpam confitenti!

Feram quicquid iusseris

animo libenti.

Parcit enim subditis leo rex ferarum

Et est erga subditos

immemor irarum,

et vos idem facite,

principes terrarum!

Quod caret dulcedine

nimis est amarum.


 * Which translates as:


 * "Already I value virtues, I am angry at vices, Renewed in soul I am born again in spirit, Like a new-born, on fresh milk I feed, So that my heart should no longer be a vessel of vanity."


 * "Oh, Elect of Cologne, spare the repentant, Show mercy, to one seeking pardon; And give penance to one confessing guilt! I will do whatever you order with willing soul."


 * "Lo, the lion, king of beasts spares his subjects; And is toward the subjects oblivious of anger, And do the same ye, the rulers of lands, What lacks sweetness (softness) is too bitter."


 * A page with roots of incantations shows the Sephirot from Kabbalah. Even though Regina says that the characters are Elvish, they are actually symbols for alchemical processes – Abstraction, Putrefication, Digestion 1, Purification 1, Pulverise 1, Purification 2, Pulverise 2, Reverberation 2, Coagulation 1 and Reverberation 1.
 * The opposite page contains the astrological symbols for Aries (♈), Taurus (♉) and Gemini (♊)—the first three astrological signs in the Zodiac. A couple of alchemical symbols (Fire of Circulation 3 and Fire of Rotation) can also be glimpsed.

Appearances
Note: "Archive" denotes archive footage.