The Bennett Coven

-Beatrice to her coven

**The Bennett Coven** was a powerful coven of more than a hundred witches who were primarily led by the powerful Bennett bloodline, during their residence of what would later become Mystic Falls.

Currently, the Bennett bloodline is the only known remaining bloodline of the coven, though it is known that descendants of the other witches in the coven still exist.

The Bennett witches migrated from Salem to the area that would later become Mystic Falls in the 1690s to avoid the witch trial persecutions.

In 1790, their Coven leader, Beatrice Bennett's mother, agreed, along with her coven, to enchant the Maxwell bell, giving it magical properties able to drive out the monsters that were terrorizing the town. However, Sybil sirened Ethan Maxwell to corrupt the bell with the staff of Arcadius and used the bell to unleash hellfire upon the town. She also sirened him not to speak a word to Beatrice. Ethan got a coded message to her and she and her coven were able to save the town at the sacrifice of their own lives. Beatrice and Ethan managed to lure both Sybil and Seline to the Armory's Vault through the underground tunnel system where she trapped the siren sisters. Unfortunately, Ethan was sirened to kill her and she defended herself from him and seemingly shut him away in the secret room of the sirens' treasures they had collected. She was spared once again to continue the Bennett bloodline.

In 1864, Emily Bennett was burned in the same spot as her ancestral coven. There, she and the other witches that previously died there marked the Earth with power. In death, she became part of the coven and guided her descendant, Bonnie Bennett.

In *Know Thy Enemy*, Bonnie Bennett went to the Witch Burial Ground and performed a spell to harness the power of 100 dead witches, unknown to her, of her ancestral coven. Once she was granted access to their magic, they warned her of the consequences of channeling their full power.

In *As I Lay Dying*, Bonnie used the séance spell to contact Emily to ask about a cure for a werewolf bite. She refuses to give an answer and tells her that Nature demands balance. The spirits forcefully ends the séance to which Bonnie tells Stefan that "they don't want us here. They think I'm abusing their power." Later, Jeremy is shot and killed by Sheriff Forbes; with his death being a human killing, his ring would not resurrect him. Bonnie and Alaric take him to the witch burial ground cottage where she claims that there is a spell to bring him back if they, the spirits, will give her the power to perform it. As she chants, she claims that they are angry at her for coming back and didn't want to help. She also tells Alaric that if she performed the spell there would be consequences. As her spell begins to wane and the candles cease, she calls out to Emily, telling her she loved him. Emily, and the coven, relents and resurrects Jeremy, bringing him back with the ability to see and communicate with ghosts.

### Season Three

In *The New Deal*, Bonnie received a vision about the abandoned cottage and the four sleeping Originals from the witch spirits of the Bennett Coven. As she was drawn back to the house, Stefan wanted her to use her magic to cloak them to keep them from Klaus. She told him that she did not have the power to hide four Originals. It was later revealed that the spiritual coven was using their magic to hide the coffins so that even if Klaus came to the house, he would not be able to find them.

In *Our Town*, Bonnie was trying to open the spelled coffin of the unknown Mikaelson. As a hybrid approached, the witch spirits continue to protect her and cloak the four coffins; this alerted Bonnie to the fact that she was not alone.

In *The Ties That Bind*, Klaus mocked the dead witches. They retaliated in force with an aneurysm spell. Klaus went on to threaten their living descendants and they pushed their magic further. Once he threatened to end the Bennett bloodline by killing Bonnie, the coven relented and uncloaked his family's coffins.