Salem/Anne Hale

**Anne Hale** is a witch from *Salem*.

## Powers and Abilities

### Powers

**Sorcery:** Anne is a cradle witch who was largely unaware of her heritage until entering young adulthood. As stated by Tituba, Anne's bloodline is one of the oldest and highest among the witches. Her true mother is the legendary ancient witch currently known as Countess Von Marburg, one of the last survivors of the true witches, making Anne a product of massive power. This was further proven when she demonstrated unusual physical attributes, such as blood-red eyes and a forked snake tongue in moments of fear or pleasure.

While Anne's abilities remained suppressed for most of her life due to her father's memory spell, once activated, her abilities proved devastating and far greater than those of any other witch in the Essex Hive, including the leader of the Grand Rite and very powerful witch, Mary Sibley. The extent of her power is great enough that Tituba, a skilled and knowledgeable witch, urged Mary to eliminate Anne, considering her a threat and claiming that her power would grow faster than even Mary's did. These suspicions eventually came true when Anne's devastating power surfaced, though she quickly gained control over it, growing into a powerful witch in a short amount of time.

* **Telekinesis:** Anne's first notable magical feat was the murder of her parents after her father fainally convinced her into believing in her witchcraft. In anger, her magic finally activated and slammed her father into a wall, demonstrating a great strength in telekinesis. She later quickly learned how to control these powers, possibly from her father's Book of Shadows, as she was seen floating several objects simultaneously and sending a full grown man flying into the air.
	+ **Body Manipulation:** Anne quickly learned how to use her telekinesis to achieve the effect of puppetry with fluent movements, further demonstrating her talent and great magical heritage.
		- **Paralysis Inducement:** Her use of her puppetry also allows her to place her victims in a physical paralysis of sorts. She demonstrated this by paralyzing Gloriana with a simple wave of her hand.
* **Fire Manipulation:** In addition to using her telekinetic powers to kill her father, Anne caused her mother's head to combust.
* **Life Force Manipulation:** Her most impressive abilities include her biokinetic skills, which she learned to control towards the completion of the Grand Rite. Anne learned to control, create, and destroy life by practicing on a flower seed while following her father's instructions.
	+ **Enhanced Regeneration:** She was first seen using these abilities when she attempted to kill herself, only for her blood to be drawn back into the sliced wrist, which then healed itself. According to Mary, this act was fueled solely by Anne's actual desire to survive.
* **Weather Manipulation:** It was seen that Anne's emotions have a colossal effect on the surrounding environment, as she managed to invoke rain several times simply by crying. This level of weather control was only previously done by the Countess. Thus, it is possible that only cradle witches have such an effect on the weather.
* **Mind Manipulation:** Anne learned to use her familiar rat in the same manner as Mary to gain control over an individual. In Anne's case, she used her rat to control her husband Cotton Mather by forcing him to swallow the animal. Once she gained more skill in witchcraft, she was able to place limits on her victim in terms of what they are able to do.
* **Teleportation:** She is capable of mild teleportation that can only be achieved by triggering it with a mask that belonged to her father. It is unknown if she can achieve teleportation without the mask.
* **Empathic Manipulation:** She once cast an effective love spell on Cotton, binding his will to hers and allowing her to manipulate him into marrying her.
* **Astral Projection:** Following Cotton's escape from Salem after exorcising Anne's familiar, she magically located him by sending various astral projections to the forest where she surrounded him, with each of her projections trying to manipulate him by acting on different emotions. During this ritual, she simply entered a trance and did not seem paralyzed or completely unaware as many witches are while performing astral projection.
* **Reality Manipulation:** Soon after finding Gloriana, Anne performed her first truly dark spell adn through the use of an old elaborate ritual, she stole Gloriana's unborn child from her womb.
* **Memory Manipulation:** Another significant spell that Anne performed easily was her memory stripping spell that she used to completely remove all traces of Gloriana's past life and memory from the latter's mind by ripping it through the eye socket of the victim.