Spell Circle

Spell Circle is a magic glowing circle that is practiced by witches in the Disney Channel animated series The Owl House.
==Background==
Spell circles are how witches on The Boiling Isles cast spells, which is drawing a circle in the air using either their fingers or a staff. The intensity of the spell depends on the size of the circle. The bigger it is the more powerful the spell.
The circle can be drawn with a fingertip, a sweeping gesture of the hands, a tracing motion with the feet, a training wand, or the end of a witch's staff. Two, and possibly more, witches can cooperatively draw a single spell circle. Witches can cast multiple iterations of a spell by creating a single spell circle then slapping it with the palm of the hand. The witch then sweeps their hand which creates multiple identical spell circles. A witch can even cast two spell circles with each hand.
A spell circle requires magical energy in order to function. This means the caster must either have their own supply of magical energy, such as a magic bile sac attached to a witch's heart, or the caster must be on the Boiling Isles or another magical place to directly access the fallen titan's power in the air.
==Trivia==
*Spell circles appearing in The Owl House are part of a magic system trend that is popular in modern fantasy genre. Other shows and comic books that utilize spell circles, or floating incantations, include Fullmetal Alchemist, Fairy Tail, Garo, She-Ra: and The Princesses of Power, and The Dragon Prince. This recurring trend of magic needing the use of circles or a glyph originates from black magic practices of the Middle Ages and from alchemy of the late Renaissance period. A perfect circle was believed to be a universal symbol for balance and perfection in both mathematics and occult practices of those time periods.
*It also bears the common to the Sling Rings and the Tao Mandalas from Doctor Strange due to:
**Uses and gained by magic.
**Forms a circle and emits light.
**Eda has the same color references the common colors on the Master of the Mystic Arts.
*Coincidentally, the method witches of Boiling Isles conjuring the Spell Circle (drawing a glowing circle in the air) is pretty much similar to how Makai Knights summon their armor in Japanese adult dark fantasy tokusatsu series GARO.
==Gallery==
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The Owl House 18.png|Eda casting a smaller circle
The Owl House 10.png|"The bigger the circle the more powerful the spell."
Light Spell pattern.png|Recording of Eda casting the Light spell
Covention (29).png|Amity's Spell circle
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Lilith in the Promo.png|Lillith's spell circle
Adventures in the Elements (55).png|Casting a spell circle with a training wand
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Willow in The First Day.png|Willow's spell circle
The Owl House Mid Season Sneak Peek (15).png|Emira and Edric's spell circle
Enchanting Grom Fright (76).png|Amity casting the spell circle with her feet
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File:Escaping Expulsion (82).png|Amity casting two spell circles
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Them's the Breaks, Kid (128).jpg|Young Raine and Eda cast a spell circle together
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==External links==
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Category:The Owl House
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