Known Tracking Spell

The tracking spell (Appare Vestigium)Fantastic Beasts: A Cinematic Yearbook, page 57 was a charm that revealed and illuminated traces of recent magical activity and showed magical footprints and track marks in an area.
==History==
In 1927, Newt Scamander cast this charm to help him in his investigative attempt to track the whereabouts of Tina Goldstein in the streets of Place Cachée, Paris.In the 1988–1989 school year, Chiara Lobosca asked Filius Flitwick to teach her the spell. She later taught it to Jacob's sibling, who revealed a Niffler's trace using it. Later, Jacob's sibling used it to reveal the tracks of a supposed Moon Frog (actually Sir Ribbithe).
==Etymology==
The spell has two components, appare, a Latin word in the imperative form (present active, second-person, singular) meaning "you appear (now)", a conjugation of the verb appareo ("I appear, or come into sight"), and vestigium, Latin for "footprint or track", or in a broader sense, any form of "trace, vestige or mark". Together, the incantation Appare Vestigium can be interpreted as a command, "footprints, traces, you appear now".
==See also==
*Human-presence-revealing spell
*Trace Charm
==Behind the scenes==
*This spell, or a variation of it, might be used in the creation and/or maintenance of the MACUSA Real-Time Hex Indicator map.
==Appearances==
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==Notes and references==
Category:Charms
Category:Spells With-An Light
Category:Spells With Incantations of Latin Known Origin