The Woogeyman

The Woogeyman is the main antagonist of the episode "Is There a Woogy in the House?" of Charmed. It is a demon that takes the form of black smokeand tried to take possession of Halliwell Manor because it was built on a spiritual Nexus,e "battleground" of good versus evil. 
==History ==
=== Background ===
When Phoebe was a little girl, she saw something in the basement. Afraid, she ran to Grams for protection. The Woogyman was probably hard, or maybe even impossible to vanquish, and so Grams banished it into the Nexus where he would not be able to escape. Phoebe peeked into the basement when Grams was banishing the Woogy. Grams noticed her grandchild and sent her straight to bed while keeping the demon in her sight. After Grams banished the Woogyman, she taught her grandchildren what she called a rhyme to use whenever they might see this shadow again, although Prue and Piper never believed, Phoebe remembered it by heart.
=== Season 2 ===
In 1999, an earthquake made it possible for the Woogyman to escape. He first possessed a gas man who lured Phoebe to the basement. He pretended to be hurt, needing her help. Phoebe, who was deathly afraid of the basement after she saw a shadow, had no choice other than to help the gas man and so went down into the basement. She was quickly possessed by the Woogyman who ordered Phoebe to destroy her sisters. Phoebe gained new powers such as conjuration and telekinesis and the ability of transfiguration, displayed when she transformed Piper's duck dinner into a living one and magically changed the color of her nails.
By the end of the day, Phoebe had the Woogyman possess a neighbor, Andy Trudeau and Beth Whittlesey, a professor in geology who came to a dinner party held in the Manor. When Prue and Piper left with the other guests to go to Quake, they figured out that Phoebe was possessed by the Woogy. Prue wanted to get to Phoebe, but a magical barrier wouldn't let her into the house. Phoebe managed to slip through the Woogy's possession briefly, convincing her sisters that the good in her was still there. However, the Woogyman took over again and Phoebe, in a deep voice, told Prue and Piper that they weren't welcome anymore, after which she telekinetically closed the front door.
Phoebe was eventually returned to good and was able to banish the Woogyman back into the Nexus.
=== Season 2 ===
Months later, Abraxas unleashed the Woogyman again. It immediately returned to the house where it tried to take Phoebe again. Piper and Phoebe managed to it back by reciting the spell together.Four years later, Cole Turner tricked the sisters into giving up the manor in hopes of getting the Nexus. He intended to use its power to turn Phoebe evil, kill Piper and Paige and take over the city. By stirring up legal troubles for the sisters, he was able to get the deed to the manor and invited several demons to crash there. However, Phoebe bluffed her way into the manor by pretending to be Kaia, a demonic seductress who had been posing as Phoebe. She managed to get to the basement just as Cole was taking in the Woogyman. Phoebe recited the banishing spell, and every demon in the house was sucked into the ground, including Cole. However, as his powers made him invincible, Cole managed to escape.
=== Possessing Leo Wyatt ===
In 2005, Zankou attempted to take in the Nexus, but because Piper was hidden inside the manor, the plan failed. Later that night, they released the shadow again. It could not choose between Zankou (the force of evil) or the sisters (the force of good), so it choose Leo instead, as he was mortal and therefore a neutral party.
=== Destruction ===
In a matter of months, Zankou devised a plan to steal the sisters' Book of Shadows and then use its magic to get the Nexus, and drove them out of the house. During their final confrontation, the Charmed Ones lured Zankou to taking in the Nexus and then destroyed it with a spell, thus also destroying the Woogyman.
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