American Horror Story/Zoe Benson

**Zoe Benson** is a member of the Witches' Council and an instructor at Miss Robichaux's Academy from *American Horror Story*.

## Powers and Abilities

**Magic:** Witches possess the ability to influence the course of events via supernatural or mystical forces. This ability is passed down through genetics as a family trait.

* **Spell Casting:** As a witch, she is able to cast spells and perform rituals. She developed a remarkable affinity for casting spells during her stay at the Academy; a few years after Cordelia announced the existence of witches, Zoe became an expert and a teacher of this branch of music.
	+ **Resurrection:** Her first attempt at learning and using magic was to join Madison Montgomery in a necromantic ritual to resurrect Kyle.
	+ **Banishment:** Together with Queenie and Nan, Zoe was able to use the right spell to bring back to life and banish the Axeman from the villa.
	+ She used a spell to reattach Spalding's severed tongue, a feat that even Myrtle Snow could not cast in her younger years.
	+ **Divination:** Zoe utilized a divination spell in conjunction with a lit candle to uncover past events, specifically that Nan had been drowned in the bathtub.
	+ **Color Transmutation:** She demonstrated the ability to change the color of a rose from white to red during a lesson to a class of witches.
	+ **Location Protection:** She cast a spell to protect a location.
* **Telekinesis:** One of the Seven Wonders, Zoe has the magical ability to move things with only the power of her mind. She used this power to pull a candlestick in the test of the Seven Wonders and also used it to grab a knife to stab the Axeman with. She demonstrated further skills with this power when she telekinetically gathered the ashes of John Henry Moore in order for Mallory to resurrect him.
* **Mind Control:** One of the Seven Wonders and known as Concilium, Zoe also has the magical power to bend the will of another individual and force them to do whatever she desires. She used this power during the test of the Seven Wonders and has demonstrated some proficiency in using this. She used it to break Madison's hold on Kyle during the Trial of Concilium.
* **Teleportation:** One of the Seven Wonders and known as Transmutation, Zoe has the magical ability to move from one place to another without physically occupying the space in between. She used this ability to play with Queenie and Madison during the Seven Wonders test, which inadvertently resulted in her being impaled on the iron fences of the Academy gate.
* **Astral Projection:** One of the Seven Wonders and known as Descensum, she has the power to descend into the netherworlds of the afterlife. She used this to travel to her personal Hell during the Seven Wonders test.
* **Life Force Manipulation:** One of the Seven Wonders and known as Vitalium Vitalis, Zoe has the power to balance the scales between life and death. She used this power to bring a homeless man back to life after he was killed by Kyle in a fit of uncontrollable rage.
* **Divination:** One of the Seven Wonders, Zoe has the ability to gain knowledge through indirect means. She developed this power when she sensed that Madison was dead and used it when she needed to find the grimoire with the spell inside to ban the Axeman from the Academy.
* **Magic Negation:** She has demonstrated the ability to cancel out someone else's magic or voodoo curses temporarily. This power was shown when Zoe was able to negate Marie Laveau's zombie spell simply by uttering the command, "be in your nature". It is unknown if this is a magical power or a spell.
* **Death Inducement:** Zoe also has the ability to kill someone by causing fatal hemorrhages through sexual intercourse.