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Conjuring magic is not an intellectual endeavor. It's emotion. You must ask yourself, "Why am I doing this? Who am I protecting?" Feel it.

—Mr. Gold to Emma src

Witchcraft is a type of Magic featured on ABC's Once Upon a Time and Once Upon a Time in Wonderland. It first appears in the first episode of the first season.

Uses

Witchcraft is a form of magic that requires the user to be adept in using spell books and incantations. When used, witchcraft often gives away a pink or violet glow and at times will manifest as a puff of smoke, which can vary in colors, depending on the practitioner. Some people, like Zelena, are born with these powers, but the person needs to be taught in order to control them. ("Pilot," "We Are Both," "It's Not Easy Being Green")

The use of witchcraft is not an intellectual endeavor, but is tied to strong emotions like love and anger. One way to channel these emotions into magic is to think about and relive a moment that made you angry in the past. Another way is to think about your loved ones and how you want to protect them, and feel it. ("The Miller's Daughter", "Ariel")

Known Practitioners

Magical Abilities

Some of the more common magical abilities include:

Age Manipulation
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For more information, see the Age Manipulation article.


Age Manipulation is not limited to only witchcraft.
Conjuration
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Conjuration is the ability to create something out of thin air. This ability first appears in the fourth episode of the first season.
Known Practitioners
Notes
  • When an object is conjured,it is often accompanied by a cloud of smoke, such as when Rumplestiltskin creates Cinderella's Glass Slippers in "The Price of Gold", when Zelena conjures a rag in "It's Not Easy Being Green", or when Emma produces a piece of paper in "Best Laid Plans". However, it is also possible to conjure without smoke, such as when Mr. Gold creates a necklace for Lacey in "Lacey".
  • It is also possible to make an object vanish into thin air, like when Regina makes Henry's stick of dynamite disappear, or when Mr. Gold rips out Keith's tongue and allows it to disappear completely. This ability is not limited to witchcraft, as Poseidon, who is a Deity, used his powers to make a bottle of Squid Ink disappear. ("Welcome to Storybrooke," "Lacey," "Poor Unfortunate Soul")
  • Conjuration is not limited to witchcraft only. Fairies and practitioners of Belief are also able to do this. It is also possible to create something out of thin air by using the Enchanted Quill, and by using a magic wish from a Genie. ("Nothing to Fear," "Think Lovely Thoughts," "Sympathy for the De Vil," "The Dark Swan")
  • Conjuration can also be used to create a copy of something else, like when Emma conjures a copy of a page from Henry's storybook. However, an experienced practitioner of witchcraft, can tell if it's a forgery. ("Best Laid Plans")
  • Potioncraft can also be used for conjuration. The Witch creates an Enchanted Helm for King Fergus this way. ("The Bear King")
Energy Blast
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Energy Blast is the ability to create magical blasts to harm the enemies and the objects in the most effective way. This ability first appears in the fourth episode of the fourth season.
Known Practitioners
Healing
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For more information, see the Healing Spells article.
Immobilization
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For more information, see the Magical Immobilization article.


Immobilization is not limited to only witchcraft.
Pyrokinesis
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Pyrokinesis is the ability to create and control fire. This ability first appears in the second episode of the first season.
Known Practitioners
Notes
  • Practitioners of witchcraft are able to use fireballs without conjuring them: They can also pull fire out of a source such as a fireplace and shape it into a ball, like when Regina pulls fire from Maleficent's fireplace during their duel, and when Emma sets the Magic Wardrobe on fire and Cora pulls the fire into her hand and launched it at Emma. ("The Thing You Love Most," "Lady of the Lake")
  • Pyrokinesis seems to be one of the more basic forms of witchcraft. When Regina teaches Emma magic and when Cora instructs the Red Queen, they both start by teaching them how to create fire. When Rumplestiltskin gives Regina lessons, pyrokinesis is one of the first things that he teaches her. ("Dark Hollow", "Heart of the Matter", "Kansas")
  • Two sorcerers are able to combine their fireballs to create a bigger and more powerful fireball, like when Cora and Regina combined their fireballs to break the Protection Spell cast on Mr. Gold's shop. ("The Miller's Daughter")
  • Fairy Magic can also be used for fire-making, as evidenced when Tinker Bell lights a candle with her powers. ("Going Home")
  • Zelena has displayed the ability to conjure different colored fireballs, more specifically green fireballs, which stayed green from "Our Decay" onward.
Shapeshifting
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For more information, see the Shapeshifting article.


This ability is not limited to only witchcraft.
Telekinesis
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Telekinesis is the ability to move objects and people without physical interaction. This ability first appears in the second episode of the first season.

It is not limited to witchcraft, as Cyrus, who has Genie Magic, have also used this ability. Fairy Magic can also be used for this purpose. ("Quite a Common Fairy," "The Serpent," "Changelings")

Known Practitioners
Teleportation
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For more information, see the Teleportation article.


This ability is not limited to practitioners of witchcraft, as Hades and Poseidon, who are Deities, are also known to have this ability. ("Poor Unfortunate Soul," "Labor of Love")
Transformation
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Transformation is the ability to change an object's form or appearance. This ability first appears in the fourth episode of the first season.

Known Practitioners

Notes

  • A rare form of transformation is alchemy, which involves transforming plant matter into gold. Rumplestiltskin, Cora and Merlin are the only people known to have this skill. ("That Still Small Voice" et al., "The Miller's Daughter", "Nimue")
  • Belief can also be used for transformation. ("Good Form")


Trivia

On-Screen Notes

  • Sometimes, when using witchcraft, some incantations are used:
    • When Jafar's summons a dragon, he casts a spell, Ego vocare te dolor. Ego vocare te damnum. Ego vocare te faciam scelus, which is Latin for "I call you pain. I call you loss. I call do (will do) crime.[1] ("Bad Blood")
    • When Cyrus uses a Locator Spell to activate the enchantment, he uses the spell locus mirabilis, which is Latin for "wonderful place".[2] ("Nothing to Fear")
    • To light up the Jabberwocky's prison, Jafar casts a spell, fiat lux, which is Latin for "let there be light".[3] ("Nothing to Fear")
    • When Jafar uses Lizard's eyes to view the last person her eyes saw after death, he casts a spell: De visu intueri. Visione revelare, which is Latin for "Look out of sight. Reveal vision."[4] ("Dirty Little Secrets")
    • The incantations Jafar uses to take control over the Genie Lamps are:
      • Incipio.Tres genies in utres. Ego te coniungere. Da mihi virtutem! Which is Latin for "Begin. Three genies in bottles. Give me power!"[5] [Note that there is no word for "genie" in Latin, so this word is plain English.]
      • When that doesn't work, he tries Magicae res tres. Vult totam!, which means "Three magic things. He wants all!"[6] Unfortunately, that doesn't work either. ("Heart of the Matter")

Production Notes

  • According to visual effects supervisor Andrew Orloff, magic on Once Upon a Time is an elemental force that people can harness. This is the reason why it involves smoke, fire, dirt, wind and water. For example, when Cora pulls Regina off the horse in "We Are Both", she doesn't telekinetically lift Regina off the horse, but instead makes the trees reach out with their branches. Another example is when the Evil Queen throws a fireball in "The Thing You Love Most", she actually pulls the fire out of the fireplace and shapes it in her hand.[7]
    • However, as seen in several episodes, telekinesis and conjuring fire out of thin air are possible.

Prop Notes


You are ready to use your own

magical ability. You must be able to
concentrate. You must be able to
focus intensity and visualize the
magic. What you want to happen
must be perfectly clear in your mind.

In performing a magical act, you will build up a massive
cone of energy with your powers at intention, then when
that energy is at its zenith, you will send it out to work
for you and effect physical changes in the material
realm.

I feel the need to remind you of the [two illegible words]
principle: whatever energy or intention is sent out,
whether it be ill or good, it will be returned to you in
kind, three-fold. If you send out positive energies you will
will get positive energies in return. It's akin to [illegible word]
a rock into a pool of water. Energy positive [two illegible words]
send out has the potential [three illegible words] and [two illegible words]
this way, your life will [illegible word] expand and [illegible word].
("Her Handsome Hero")
  • The "cone of energy" is a reference to the cone of power, a method of raising energy in ritual magic. Traditionally, this is done by a group, although it can also be done without the assistance of other people. As energy is raised, a cone forms above the wielder(s). When the magic reaches its apex, that energy is sent out en masse, directed towards whatever magical purpose is being worked on.[9]
  • The principle of magic energies being returned to the wielder three-fold, is a reference to the Rule of Three, a tenet held by people in some magical traditions, primarily Wiccans. It states that whatever energy a person puts out into the world, be it positive or negative, will be returned to that person three times.[10]


Spelle for the Removal of Errant Hairs
on Any Parte of the body.


Stand ye in front of a large looking glass.


Looke fulle at the part of your body whereabouts
the folicles [sic] are to be diminished. Thereafter fashion
a concoction of clove spice, macerated rose-hips
and milk whey.


Mix the ingredients together full well and apply
to the glass that reflects the portion of the body to
be acted on.


Say the incantation follicles be damned, get thee
gone by wave of my hand.


[illegible] wave your right hand in a [obscured]
a front of thine likeness [obscured] pasted into a pannie[obscured]


This mixtu[obscured]
when the moo[obscured]
("Changelings")

Appearances

Note: "Archive" denotes archive footage.

References

  1. ↑ https://translate.google.com/#la/en/Ego%20vocare%20te
    https://translate.google.com/#la/en/dolor
    https://translate.google.com/#la/en/damnum
    http://www.nihilscio.it/Manuali/Lingua%20latina/Verbi/Coniugazione_latino.asp?verbo=facio%20&lang=EN_
    https://translate.google.com/#la/en/scelus
  2. ↑ https://translate.google.com/?hl=no#la/en/locus%20mirabilis
  3. ↑ https://translate.google.com/?hl=no#la/en/fiat%20lux
  4. ↑ https://translate.google.com/?hl=en#la/en/intueri
    https://translate.google.com/?hl=en#la/en/De%20visu
    https://translate.google.com/?hl=en#la/en/revelare%20visione
  5. ↑ https://translate.google.com/?#la/en/Incipio
    https://translate.google.com/?#la/en/tres
    https://translate.google.com/?#la/en/in
    https://translate.google.com/?#la/en/utres
    https://translate.google.com/?#la/en/Da%20mihi
    https://translate.google.com/?#la/en/virtutem
  6. ↑ https://translate.google.com/?#la/en/Magicae
    https://translate.google.com/?#la/en/res%20tres
    https://translate.google.com/?#la/en/Vult%20totam
  7. ↑ Once Upon a Time - Behind the Magic - Page 128. London: Titan Books, October 2013
  8. ↑ File:517SpellBook.png
    File:517SpellBook2.png
    File:517SpellBook3.png
    File:517TurningPage.png
    File:517TurningPage2.png
  9. ↑ http://paganwiccan.about.com/od/MagicalTheory/fl/The-Cone-of-Power.htm
  10. ↑ http://paganwiccan.about.com/od/wiccaandpaganismbasics/a/Rule_of_Three.htm
  11. ↑ File:609RecognizeSquidInk.png
  12. ↑ File:103WereSeparated.png
  13. ↑ File:107IsSnowWhite3.png
  14. ↑ File:310TurnThePage.png
  15. ↑ File:422SnowCharmingStorybook.png
  16. ↑ File:505RumplestiltskinStorybook.png
    File:505RumplestiltskinStorybook2.png


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