Healing Incantation

"Healing Incantation" is a song sung by Rapunzel throughout the film to activate her powers of reversing damages, including complete regeneration of damaged tissues and organs as well as an aging reversal to a certain degree. Mother Gothel learned the incantation from Zhan Tiri and later taught it to Rapunzel.
==Summary==
The song is first heard at the beginning of the movie when Mother Gothel uses the magic golden flower. She sings the song, which causes the flower to glow majestically, releasing millions of magical specks, soon transforming the old, wretched Mother Gothel into a beautiful, young lady. This process lasts for centuries before it ends abruptly. Hearing the palace guards approaching, she attempts to conceal her personal secret, but knocks the hiding prop with her lantern, allowing the guards to dig up the flower from its roots and use it for the queen, who was ill and pregnant. When the queen ingested the flower, she passed its powers onto her baby: Rapunzel. The power made its way into Rapunzel's hair. Later that night, Mother Gothel kidnapped Rapunzel, using the power for herself, and concealing the innocent child from the "dangerous" outside world. Since Gothel began feeling "run-down", she taught Rapunzel the incantation.
Almost eighteen years later, Rapunzel and Eugene are confined after the dam collapses, releasing tons of water into a canyon. When trapped in an unfinished mine—which was rapidly filling with water—Eugene injures his hand from scrabbling on a rock in an attempt to find a way out. After the two confess to each other (Eugene revealing his real name and Rapunzel revealing her powers), Rapunzel realizes she can use her hair to illuminate the deep, dark depths of the cave. Rapunzel briefly sang the first two lines of the incantation—just enough to let her power shine, revealing loose rocks. When they reach the banks of a river, Eugene questions Pascal about the hair hysterically, to which Rapunzel responds. "It doesn't just glow." That night, Rapunzel performs her incantation on Eugene's injured hand, healing it, and making Eugene babble maniacally. The incantation makes its final appearance when Rapunzel tries to convince Eugene to let her heal his stabbing injury from Mother Gothel but is astonished when Eugene cuts Rapunzel's 70ft long hair. This turns her hair brown, revealing Mother Gothel's true form, before Pascal trips Gothel out of the window, turning her to dust. Eugene dies from his injuries, while Rapunzel sings the song softly, unknowingly releasing the power in her tears. A tear drips down onto Eugene's cheek, blossoming an astounding healing scene before Eugene is revived and kisses Rapunzel passionately.
==Lyrics==
<tabber>Healing Incantation=
Flower, gleam and glow
Let your power shine
Make the clock reverse
Bring back what once was mine
Heal what has been hurt
Change the fates' design
Save what has been lost
Bring back what once was mine
What once was mine
|-|Reverse (Decay) Incantation=
Wither and decay
End this destiny
Break these earthly chains
And set the spirit free
The spirit free
|-|Reverse (Decay) Incantation (Original/Demo Lyrics)=
Wither and decay
Dark bleed into light
Take what once breathed life
And give it to the night
|-|Black Rock Incantation=
Crescent high above
Evolving as you go
Raise what lies beneath
And let the darkness grow
Bend it to my will
Consume the sunlight's glow
Rise into the sky
And let the darkness grow
Let darkness grow
|-|Hope Incantation=
Power of the sun
Gift me with your light
Shine into the dark
Restore our fading sight
Rise into the dawn
Blazing star so bright
Burn away the strife
Let my hope ignite
Let hope ignite
</tabber>
==Trivia==
*Rapunzel's healing ability is a reference to how in the original fairy tale, Rapunzel healed her love interest's damaged and blind eyes by crying and her tears splashing on him.
**The line "restore our fading sight" from the Hope Incantation is most likely a reference to the same part of the original.
*The song is briefly heard in the Tangled: The Series episodes "What the Hair?!" and "Pascal's Story".
**The melody of the song is featured in "The Alchemist Returns".
*The song is sung with the alternative lyrics in "Rapunzel and the Great Tree", namely "Reverse Incantation" (also known as "Decay Incantation").
**Rapunzel sang the Decay Incantation again in "Rapunzel's Return", so she can free Quirin from the amber.
*In "Cassandra's Revenge", the full power of both the Sundrop Flower and the Moonstone Opal are unlocked and unleashed, and in the wake of the ensuing battle between Cassandra and Rapunzel, the Enchanted Girl, who had been manipulating Cassandra, gains a physical form as a result.
*In Season 3, it is revealed that Zhan Tiri taught her disciples (including Gothel) this incantation along with many others as evident in one of the scrolls.
*In "Plus Est En Vous", Rapunzel uses the Healing Incantation one last time to bring Cassandra back to life and heal her family, friends, and citizens of Corona from the effects of the Decay Incantation casted by Zhan Tiri earlier.
*As revealed through the storyboards of Todd Kurosawa, who worked as a story artist on the series, Reverse Incantation originally had different lyrics.
*In Serena Vanlentino's novel "Mother Knows Best", Gothel's mother Manea gave her the spell written on a piece of parchment, claiming that the spell is their family's greatest magical ability and must be protected under Gothel's care.
*At the end of the novel, while Rapunzel is crying in despair over the loss of Eugene, Circe and Snow White saw the events unfold through their enchanted mirror, and Circe sang a version of the incantation, replacing the words "Mine" with "Hers".
==Gallery==
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Water doesn't snap Rapunzel out.png|the bucket of water fails to snap Rapunzel out of the Decay Incantation
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File:Plus Est En Vous.png|Rapunzel chants the Healing Incantation one last time.
==Videos==
Reverse Incantation Song l Rapunzel's Tangled Adventure l Tangled The Series
Final Rapunzel's Sun Incantation l Cassandra's Revenge l Rapunzel's Tangled Adventure
==References==
es:Flor Que Da Fulgor
fi:Onneni eilinen
pl:Zaklęcie (Zaplątani)
pt-br:Healing Incantation
ru:Исцеляющее заклинание
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