Cannon Spells and Rituals

* Used by: In Masquerade, Bonnie Bennett performed this spell on Elena, to reduce the pain of the injuries the latter suffered because of the spell that linked her to her doppelgänger, Katherine.

#### **Healing Spell:** Typically an advanced spell that is used to heal the injuries and recover from non-fatal wounds. Such spells are capable of healing injuries at different proficiency levels, speed, and effectiveness. For some, the tedious nature of such spells takes years to learn.

* **Incantation:** Unknown

* **Used by:** In The Return, Damon states that Emily practiced healing spells although it took her years to learn to use them. In Pictures of You, Bonnie, using Expression, rapidly recovered from Elena's vampire's bite; her wound healed within seconds.

* Similarly, in The Walking Dead, she was burned on her face after Elena attacked Katherine, who she was linked to. After Bonnie unlinked herself from Katherine, she recovered near instantly.

* In Sanctuary, Freya showed her penchant for healing spells with Rebekah who was possessing the witch body of Eva Sinclair. Freya healed her broken hand after saving her from the Kindred.

* Uniquelly, in I Love You, Goodbye and Ashes to Ashes, she used a similar spell to completely restore the corpses of Vincent Griffith and Eva, respectively, so that she could place Finn and Rebekah's spirits back into their vessels. Finn's spirit, and subsequently Vincent's, was spared from death by Freya's talisman despite Vincent's body having been severely burned and charred in an explosion while Rebekah had stabbed her vessel in the throat so that her spirit would return to her Original vampire body. In both instances, Freya was able to restore the bodies of both individuals so that possession was possible.

* In Night Has A Thousand Eyes, Dahlia performed a similar spell on the then Regent, Josephine LaRue. Dahlia simply blew onto her hands, breaking the curse that her mother cast that ultimately crippled her hands, making them swollen and arthritic.

* In Haunter of Ruins, Hope healed the broken wing of a butterfly after having removed the bracelet that suppressed her magic. Hayley also mentions that she knew of Hope's tendencies to heal injured fireflies.

#### **Paralysis Spell:** A spell used to paralyze a target's body, including even those of vampires, which has the effect of preventing them from moving at all.

* Incantation: Unknown

* Used by: In Disturbing Behavior, Gloria performed this spell on Stefan Salvatore to prevent him from moving so that she could extract information from him about Elena, whom she saw in a vision with Esther's Talisman.

#### **Preservation Spell:** A powerful spell that allows a witch to preserve their own or the body of another being. Such a spell protects the deceased's body from any form of decay indefinitely.

* Incantation: Unknown

* Requirements: Unknown

* Used by: In Dangerous Liaisons, Esther tells Elena that the witch Ayana performed this spell on her at the point of the latter's death so that she may one day return to her body and undo the vampire plague she created.

* In Live Through This, it was revealed that a similar spell was used on Julian's body. Presumably cast by the Heretics, they hoped to one day reunite his trapped spirit, within the phoenix stone, with his body.

* *(This also may be the same spell preserving the true body of Jalen Parra or as he's more commonly known as Jeffrey Beers, as it's hinted in NOLA: Welcome Back that his original body began to decay. The fact that he didn't die indicates his body might still exist in this state.)*

#### **Sleeping Beauty Spell:** A spell that allows a witch to induce a mystical coma onto a target whose waking time is tied to another's death. The target's body is kept at perfect health and preserved until they wake up. The spell ensured that with the caster's death, became irreversible and that should the spell be tampered with, as to exploit a loophole, both linked targets shall die.

* Incantation: Unknown

* Requirements: Target, Blood of linked individual

* Used by: In I'm Thinking Of You All The While, Kai performed this spell, which was suggested by Lily Salvatore; sending Elena into a preserved sleep, linking both her life and that of Bonnie's. So long a Bonnie was alive, Elena would stay asleep. Kai wanted, in part, to make Damon suffer by making him choose between his best friend and his girlfriend.

#### **Blood Gathering Spell:** A simple spell that enables a witch to telekinetically gather and collect the blood of a specific target to one point, whether it is the witch's blood or that of another.

* Davina's Incantation: Venez sanguis. Venez sanguis, Venez sanguis la force de la bête à moi.

* Finn's Incantation: Unknown

* Vincent's Incantation: Venez sanguinem au moi

* Requirements: Ancestral Magic (Davina/Vincent), Target's blood

* Used by: In From a Cradle to a Grave, Davina used this spell to gather what was left of Klaus's blood that splattered on a car not too far from the Abattoir. She did this in an attempt to save as many vampires as she can from the poison of the werewolf bite, but what she collected was only enough for a single vampire, who was given to Josh.

* In Heart Shaped Box, Finn, to save his sister's life, used his magic, while trapped within her pendant, to draw the blood from her wound upwards through the coffin and the ground so that she could be detected by Klaus.

* In No More Heartbreaks, Vincent performs a similar spell to collect what remains of Lucien's blood in an attempt to heal the poisoned Cami.

#### **Fertility Spell:** An unknown ritual related to fertility.

* Incantation: In Unum Edito, Dominus Sae Domina. Cuplas Sino Liberos.

* Requirements: A witch's talisman

* Used by: In Wheel Inside the Wheel, Dahlia performed this unknown spell over a fire in her cottage while she was holding her necklace.

#### **Metamorphosis Spell:** An extremely rare and unique spell that can only be accomplished with comparable magical strength. At the most complex form of this spell, complete transmogrification can be performed. This is considered the most advanced form of all biologically-related spells.

* Incantation: Non-verbal

* Requirements: Extremely powerful and advanced magic

* Used by: To date, this spell has only been accomplished twice, in two variations, with the latter at the most complex stage. The witch that performed the magic to accomplish such feats was Freya while she was linked to Dahlia through her unique form of connective magic and while her magic was augmented through Dahlia's immortality slumber spell. In The Devil is Damned, Freya accelerated the growth of a caterpillar causing it to undergo complete metamorphosis into a butterfly in mere seconds.

* In Exquisite Corpse, at the most complex level seen, Freya transmogrified or completely altered, the form of the former witch Lenore, who was possessed by Esther, into a flock of starlings. Once altered the birds continued to live on and fly away for a few seconds, then each began to die one by one. Whether the death of the starlings was caused by Freya or through the transmogrification process, it remains to be seen. With the body destroyed in the process, Lenore was unable to be consecrated while Esther's spirit returned to the Ancestral plane. To date, no other witch has been able to perform such spells including Freya, as Dahlia's connective magic and magical augmentations have been removed.

#### **Corruption Detection Spell:** A spell that allows a witch to test for magic infused in a target's body.

* Incantation: Unknown

* Requirements: Blood of the Target

* Used by: In Behind the Black Horizon, Davina, fearing for Kol, performed this spell on his blood and found that the Ancestors corrupted her resurrection spell and infused him with their magic.

#### **Substance Concentration Spell:** A spell that allows the casting witch to concentrate a substance, in this case, the Beast Serum, to a localized point within a biological system, specifically, Aurora's heart.

* Incantation: Unknown

* Requirements: Target

* Used by: In Where Nothing Stays Buried, Vincent performed this spell on Aurora to concentrate the Beast serum into her heart. Once localized, he'd be able to extract the serum from her. He also claimed that for the spell to work it would take a "little while", at least less than a day, to concentrate the serum. Eventually, he was successful in removing the serum from Aurora, only in turn to give it to Marcel, who became the Beast of prophecy.

#### **Sleeping Beauty Reversal Spell:** A direct reversal spell to break the mystically induced coma and life-link between two individuals without triggering the curse's secondary effect; to immediately cause death to the linked individuals.

* Incantation: Unknown

* Requirements: Linked Target(s), Various Herbs, Candles, Grimoires

* Used by: In I Was Feeling Epic, Bonnie broke Kai's sleeping spell by reverse engineering his original spell and woke Elena from her mystical slumber. Bonnie admits it took some time to break the spell, though the exact explanation as to how she circumvented the original spell's "loophole-free" nature and not to cause instant death to her or Elena, is unknown.

#### **Confirmation Spell:** A spell that utilizes blood of a target to confirm whether or not if other individuals are linked to them.

* Incantation: Unknown

* Requirements: Blood of the Target

* Used by: In Gather Up the Killers, Marcel asked Vincent to confirm whether or not Elijah had died since his sireline had not been killed off. Upon doing so, he confirmed that Elijah and his siblings were anchored to Klaus' life.

#### **Beast Anti-Venom Spell:** A direct cure to the lethal strain of engineered werewolf venom that was included in the magical concoction to create the Beast's enhanced bite.

* Incantation: La candidat au somme la toxique cantus

* Requirements: The Seven individual strains of Werewolf venom, five dark objects, chalk seven-pointed star, seven candles, linked target's blood Instructions: A seven-pointed star is drawn on the ground and seven candles are placed just within each point of the star. Each of the seven strains of werewolf venom is placed at each point outside of the star. The witch infuses the linked target's blood with their magic, of which she amplifies by using unknown dark objects.

* Used by: In Gather Up the Killers, Freya reversed engineered a cure by combining the seven strains of werewolf toxin and Klaus' blood into a mystical anti-venom to rub over the bites of Elijah and Kol. With all of the ingredients, she had enough for a small bowl of anti-venom; a single dose, each, and no more.

#### **Liquid Gathering Spell:** A spell that allows the casting witch to gather and concentrate a liquid, such as tears, into a small vial.

* Incantation: Les lames colligo. Ad me gluttuli.

* Requirements: Target liquid

* Used by: In Til the Day I Die, Davina performed this spell to collect Hope's tears as an ingredient to another spell.

#### **Lineage Spell:** A spell that tests the blood to determine whether magic is present in any form. Variations in this spell reveal ancestors.

* Incantation: Unknown

* Requirements: Target's blood

* Used by: In Malivore, Emma left this spell with Hope so that she could perform the spell on Landon to determine if he was supernatural in some way. After performing the spell, she concludes that Landon has zero magic in his bloodline. Emma points out that most humans have at least some trace of magical blood in their veins from a far-flung ancestor, but by all accounts of Alaric's tests, Landon does not.

* In This Christmas Was Surprisingly Violent, Landon reveals that he had Josie perform a lineage spell on Rafael while he was trapped in wolf-form. He wanted to see if he had any ancestors who might know how to turn him back into his human form.

#### **Ailment Resistance Spell:** A spell that directly affects the constitution of the casting witch, enabling them to resist certain physical ailments.

* Incantation: Resistus maledi.

* Requirements: None

* Used by: In There's a Mummy on Main Street, Josie, Lizzie, and Hope confronted a mummy. The mummy attacked first with a plague of hornets but the witches cast a bubble boundary spell to protect themselves. The mummy retaliated with another attack to cause Hope and Lizzie to vomit up beetles, effectively incapacitating the two and preventing them from casting more spells. Josie, however, was quick on her feet and performed this spell to resist the mummy's 'curse' and remained unaffected, allowing her to defeat the mummy with a fire spell.

#### **Heartbeat Control Spell:** A spell that allows the casting witch to control the rate of another person's heartbeat, as to keep them calm. Another similar spell helps one to regular their breath.

* First Incantation: Tardus pulsatio.

* Second Incantation: Corum spiritus

* Requirements: Target

* Used by: In The Boy Who Still Has a Lot of Good to Do, Emma performed this first spell on Rafael, who was experiencing "lunar psychosis", to keep him calm. She indicated that Rafael's mind was in flux, between his wolf and human state, which made it difficult to access his memories due to a premature revision back into his human form. What Rafael needed most was for his mind to be surrounded by things that are familiar to him and connect him to his humanity and not his lycanthropy. Emma performed this second spell while placing her hand over his heart which caused him to take a deep, calming breath.

#### **Strength Augmentation Spell:** A spell that allows the casting witch to alter the strength of another person.

* Incantation: Viribus.

* Requirements: Target

* Used by: In You Remind Me of Someone I Used to Know, Josie siphoned magic from Landon and performed this spell on him to help him with his self-confidence before they stated their annual charity football game. Questioning what she had done, Josie hands him a football and has him see for himself. He throws the ball clear across the field and strikes the Mystic Fall High School bus, cracking the glass panels of the door.

#### **Pigmentation Spell:** A spell that changes the pigmentation of one's skin.

* Incantation: Pellis tinctura.

* Requirements: Target

* Used by: In This is Why We Don't Entrust Plans to Muppet Babies, a young Alyssa Chang turned Lizzie and Josie's skin pastel purple when they wouldn't give her a flower that Caroline gave them.

#### **Moratorium Spell:** A spell that alters the perception of time while delaying one's activities, so that the targets will move in slow motion.

* Incantation: Morator

* Requirements: Target(s) Used by: In What Cupid Problem?, Alyssa performed this spell on MG and Kaleb, seemingly and effectively slowing them down in time to make them move in slow motion. This spell was enough to defy physics as when MG jumped the banister railings, he did so in slow motion. The spell was stopped when Kym knocked Alyssa unconscious.

#### **Humanity Spell:** A spell that restores a vampire's humanity, should they have switched it off.

* Incantation: Non-verbal. *(There was no incantation used in cannon but in NOLA: Welcome Back Jeffrey Beers mentions using a similar or the same spell and offers to teach it to Davina Claire.)*

* Requirements: Vampire

* Used by: In You Can't Save Them All, Josie, corrupted by dark magic, forcefully restores Jade's humanity.

* *(In NOLA: Welcome Back it's mentioned Jeffrey Beers used this or something similar to restore Jasmine Mikaelson's humanity.)*