Rituals

== Age Regression ==
Age Regression was a ritual that is performed to revert someone's mind and body to a certain point in time of their life. The exact mechanics of this ritual remain unknown.
== Anchor Transference Ritual ==
The ceremony will successfully replace the current anchor of the supernatural purgatory with another person or supernatural entity . If the next anchor is a spirit of a deceased, they will be given a foothold in the living plane, though they will remain dead, thus giving the deceased spirit the power to interact with both planes of existence.
==== Requirements ====
Massive source of power (celestial events/or siphoning), Personal belonging of the next anchor.
==== Incantation ====
Im A Pran Khos Suptia Jhem Ai Pada Khe Rassatam. Im A Pran Khos Suptia Jhem Ai Pada Khe Rassatam. Im A Pran Khos Suptia Jhem Ai Pada Khe Rassatam. Ai Pada Se Rassatam. Ai Pada Se Rassatam. Ai Pada Se Rassatam. Ai Pada Se Rassatam.
== Confirmation-Representational Linking Ritual ==
A complex ritual used to confirm whether if another person is pregnant while using representational magic, which uses the concept of "like attracts like" to link the pregnant person to another.
==== Requirements ====
Ancestral or Representational Magic, Target's hair, Goblet, Candles, Salt Symbols, Wooden surface, Herbs, Target's hair, Full Moon 
==== Incantation ====
Non-Verbal
== Consecration ==
Consecration was the magical act of burying a dead witch so their soul may join the Ancestral Plane. By carrying this out, their magic flowed back into the Earth, fueling the witch community.
As seen occasionally, the process was very complicated and the body of the witch that was being consecrated had to be dressed in white. Rose petals would then be thrown over the body and it would be sprayed with what appeared to be blessed water. Upon the end of the ritual, the soul of the consecrated witch would join the Ancestors in a limbo-like dimension and their power would flow into the earth, fueling the community. With the destruction of the tether between the Ancestral Plane and the community of New Orleans — thereby eliminating Ancestral magic — consecration is no longer a viable method to fuel magical practice.
==== Incantation ====
The Elder witch implements a number of fumigations and aspersions on the body of the deceased witch. In the case of recent deaths, such as Jane Anne or Katie, spread also white petals and the same body is dressed in white before being buried.
In the case of old bones from which a witch must draw power (as when Sophie tries to seize power from Celeste's old bones) must use ashes and do fumigation, then take the skull and invoke the ancestors. While holding the skull over the bones of the witch, chant:
I consecrate these bones to the Earth, Ancestors hear me.
== Nine Sacred Herbs ==
The Nine Sacred Herbs are a combination of nine herbs that, when mixed with honey as a binding agent, can act as an antidote to nine supernatural venoms. One of the herbs was mugwort; the others are somewhat easily found between "raiding the hospital pharmacy, the homeopath downtown, and the salad ba." If the herbs are mixed incorrectly, they can cause the venom or toxin to become more potent, killing the infected individual.
=== Real-World Mythology ===
The "Nine Herbs" refers to an Old English charm recorded in the 900s in Lacnunga, an Anglo-Saxon medical compilation in the manuscript which has references to both the Christian faith and English/Germanic paganism and folklore (despite Chris Argent's understanding of the herbs having had Celtic roots). Interestingly enough, the poem mentions Woden, the Germanic god associated with the Wild Hunt, also known as Woden's Hunt, the group of phantom beings and Hellhounds whose presence on the show necessitated the Nine Sacred Herbs' usage in the series.
The poem is said to refer to at least nine plants, and there are a variety of translations for the names of them that have been proposed by scholars over the years. The most common ones include (with some having conflicting translations):
* Mucgwyrt - mugwort
* Wegbrade - plantain
* Stune - lamb's cress
* Stiðe- nettle
* Attorlaðe - cockspur grass or betony
* Maegðe - mayweed (a genus which includes German chamomile)
* Wergulu - crab-apple
* Fille - thyme or chervil
* Finule - fennel
While in some versions, the Nine Sacred Herbs are supposed to be mixed with honey, some Nine Herbs Charms instruct to grind the herbs to dust and mix them with old soap and apple residue. The charm is then meant to be sung three times over each of the herbs and the apple before they are prepared, into the mouth and both of the ears of the wounded, and over the wound itself prior to the application of the salve to the wound.
== Surrogate Sacrifices ==
In Lunar Ellipse, Scott, Stiles, and Allison do this to locate the Nemeton, which they need to find in order to save their parents before they become sacrifices to increase the Darach's power. In order to locate the Nemeton, the trio must die in ice cold water with Mistletoe and an object with personal meaning to their parents present in the water. After they locate the Nemeton, they must be brought back to life, and resurrected. That can be done by having the person who is to drown them in the water have some kind of emotional bond with them, and the emotional bond will allow them Theke to bring that person back to life.
=== Effects ===
One of the effects include giving power back to the Nemeton, and when the power is given back to the Nemeton then supernatural creatures will be drawn to Beacon Hills. Whoever performs the ritual will have a permanent darkness around their heart. The last known effect is death. If something goes wrong while this ritual is performed then there is a chance that the user may die.
== Threefold Death ==
Jennifer Blake used this ritual on many Beacon Hills citizens. This ritual was performed by the Darach because each sacrifice added to her power. She was doing this to increase her power to fight Deucalion's alpha pack. The ritual is performed by killing an individual three ways; a blow to the head, cutting of the throat, and strangulation by a garrote.
The ritual was incomplete due to Jennifer Blake not being able to kill three guardians. By sacrificing warriors she gained enhanced strength, Healers for healing abilities so great she healed Deucalion's blindness, Philosophers for intelligence and strategy, and Virgins, supposedly to seduce people easily for her goals, as with Derek. The Guardians sacrifice was possibly for protection.
== Transitioning ==
The Transition is the process in which a human, witch, or werewolf undergoes the process of transitioning into a vampire, and is noted as being neither alive nor dead due to the effects of vampire blood in their system after death. The transition into a vampire can lead to either death or vampirism, the latter being achieved if human blood is consumed within the transition window.
=== Physical Conditions ===
A human who had consumed vampire blood and has subsequently died with the blood in their system will be magically revived as an undead vampire, just like the vampire who sired them. The exact nature of the human's death is irrelevant to this process; the only condition that must be met is that the body has to be more or less intact and able to function once they reawaken in transition. If the head or the heart is missing at the time of death, the person in question will not awake in transition, but simply stay dead.
Currently, it is unknown what will happen to a person who lost other organs, such as a liver, or kidneys, and woke up in transition. Most fatal injuries, such as snapped necks, slit throats, stab wounds, and shattered bones from falls will be healed before the fledgling vampire awakens in transition. Furthermore, the person must be mortally wounded or ill to the point that conventional means cannot save their lives, otherwise, the vampire blood in their system will only heal whatever non-fatal wounds or illness that the victim sustained prior to dying. However, in recent years, it has been discovered that there are several illnesses and conditions that cannot be cured by ingesting vampire blood, such as cancer and tuberculosis. In the case of tuberculosis, those who have the disease will not be healed by ingesting vampire blood, and if they die from the condition, they will be healed of the effects of the disease and will awaken in transition. Those who die of cancer with vampire blood in their system will still have cancer even as a vampire, as the mutated cells will continue to rapidly multiply as a result of the vampire blood speeding up their regenerative capabilities.
=== Nature ===
Following a human's mortal death after consuming vampire blood, the recently deceased will awaken in a state of transition. In order to complete the transition into a vampire, the person must then consume a significant amount of human blood, at least a sip's worth, within the next twenty-four hours, or else they will die. Vampires can only feed on human blood to complete their transition, though once they complete this process, they can then choose to feed on blood from other sources, such as the blood of animals, or even that of other vampires. Until a vampire drinks human blood to complete their transition, they will be not be susceptible to the standard weaknesses of the species they are soon to become (i.e. they can still walk in sunlight and can enter homes without an invitation).
Some vampires and hybrids in transition have demonstrated vampiric abilities despite having yet to feed on the blood they need to officially become vampires; most commonly, these abilities are super-strength and the appearance of vampire fangs. Once the vampire completes their transition, they will develop the rest of their supernatural abilities; as super senses, speed, accelerated healing, mind compulsion, and their true vampire face.
=== Hybrids ===
==== Werewolf-Vampire Hybrids ====
As far as the general public of the supernatural community knows, only humans can be changed into vampires, and werewolves can be changed into werewolf-vampire hybrids. However, to become a hybrid, it requires the werewolf to have died with either the blood of the Original hybrid, Niklaus Mikaelson, or the blood of his daughter, Hope Mikaelson, in their system. The werewolves who die with Klaus' blood in their system will need to complete their transition into hybrids by feeding upon the blood of a human Petrova doppelgänger, as the Doppelgänger's blood was used in the spell to create the Original Vampires, which spawned their regular-vampire progeny. Because of this requirement, a hybrid whose first consumption of blood comes from any other human besides a doppelgänger will be transformed into an unstable version of a hybrid that will ultimately become rabid and die an agonizing death; this unstable hybrid becomes so out of control that they are typically mercy-killed before that point. However, werewolves who die with Hope's blood in their system can be successfully turned into hybrids by also feeding on Hope's blood after they awaken to complete their transition, as she is the first of her kind - a true vampire-werewolf-witch hybrid who was born as such - whose blood possesses different mystical properties than her father's.
==== Siphoner-Vampire Hybrids ====
Witches can also be turned into vampires, but with one caveat - since Nature has deemed witches to be their servants and considers vampires to be abominations of nature, witches cannot retain their magic as a result of their immortality. Nature's belief is that having the supernatural abilities of both species would be an enormous imbalance of power for which it could not stand. As a result, one cannot be both a witch and a vampire, and those witches who die with vampire blood in their system will lose their connection to magic upon waking in transition.
There is only one exception to Nature's rule; siphoners. They are unique, aberrant witches that stem from the Gemini Coven. They do not possess or generate their own magic, but practice witchcraft by absorbing or "siphoning" the magical power from enchanted objects and supernatural beings. Upon their transition, siphoners are turned into witch-vampire hybrids and retain their ability to siphon, and subsequently, use magic. This also allows them to siphon from their own vampirism, a source of limited magic that they can use to cast spells as they desire. Several of these hybrids were out from their coven, then taken in by Lillian Salvatore and formed their own coven, known as the Heretics.
=== Powers and Abilities ===
The Transition does bestow certain vampiric abilities to the transitioning would-be vampire as he or she undergoes the process.
* Memory Gain: Vampires who wake up in transition always remember the memories of things they were compelled by vampires to forget while they were still human. This is due to the rule that vampires cannot be compelled except by an Original.
* Super Strength: Although not yet fully vampire, a person in transition is stronger than they were as a human. They can easily, even accidentally, throw a grown man across a room with enough speed and force to injure them.
* Super Speed: While not possessing the blurring speed of a transitioned vampire, humans in transition are able to move with enough speed and force to, when combined with their super strength, thrown grown men across a whole room.
* Enhanced Senses: People seem to have some degree of enhanced senses before completing their transition, though they appear to be very unfocused and cause lots of distraction and pain, such as things seeming too loud. This is all shown in detail during Elena's transition in Growing Pains but Vicki Donovan also showed shades of this (saying things like that people were talking too loudly when they weren't). Enzo also said that the sound of waves was "deafening" and the faint glow of the night "blinding" when he transitioned.
* Plane Walking: A person in transition is able to pass through the physical plane to other planes such as the Ancestral Well, however, they need a witch to aid doing so.
=== Weaknesses ===
* Lack of Blood: If a vampire in transition does not consume blood within twenty-four hours after their human death, they will die. After Bill Forbes was woke up in transition, he decided not to consume blood and eventually chose a human death. Likewise, Ivy chose to die a witch and refused to complete her transition. However, if blood is consumed, the transition will be completed and the former human (or witch) becomes a vampire.
* Hunger: Vampire in transition will often be really hungry, a sign that what the body is pushing them to feed and complete the transition. Stefan recounts that after he woke up in transition, his muscles ached and he felt sick. After Vicki started to turn, she was very hungry. On the other hand, some people who go through the transition, will find food taste to be terrible; so was the case for Elena, when Stefan made her a sandwich.
* Cancer: Vampires in transition are still affected by cancer. The regenerative capabilities gained by the vampire blood within their system however speeds up the cancer resulting in their human death. Josette Laughlin described the effects as a "Stage X," which doesn't exist as Colin was previously terminal at Stage IV. Such affects result in a beyond terminally ill, immortal-vampire patient with heightened emotions.
* Sunlight Sensitivity: The sun doesn't burn a vampire in transition, but they will be sensitive towards it, their eyes will hurt, and they will get uncomfortable in the sun.
* Pain: The gums of vampires in transition often hurt, as their canine teeth or their lateral incisors is pushing to extend from the inside of their jaws into razor-sharp fangs.
== Transfusion Ritual ==
A powerful ritual that transfers properties from one being to another.
==== Requirements ====
Transfusion braid, Sigil
==== Incantation ====
Lati Ina Si okunkun. / Yara Lati Ina Si okunkun.
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