American Horror Story/Myrtle Snow

**Myrtle Snow** is a quirky, honest witch with a penchant for truth spells. She is the Head of the Witches' Council and has a strong dedication towards the coven of the Salem descendants.

## 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. After being burned twice at the stake and resurrected both times, Myrtle experienced a massive increase in her magical powers, appearing to grow in power each time she was brought back to life.

* **Spell Casting:** As a witch, she is able to cast spells and perform rituals. In particular, Myrtle has demonstrated a high knowledge of ancient spells and rituals.
	+ **Truth Inducement:** Myrtle has cast a spell to enchant someone's tongue so that the latter is forced to tell exclusively the truth, making them unable to tell lies.
	+ **Preservation:** She also cast a spell to preserve any biodegradable form to prevent its decomposition and preserve its shape even after many decades. Myrtle used this spell in her younger years on Spalding's severed tongue.
	+ **Limb Reattachment:** An advanced spell used to attach severed body parts, Myrtle used this spell to completely restore the view of Cordelia by attaching eyeballs of her former colleages. There might be a reason as to why she only used one eye from each of her former colleagues but not both eyes from the same person; it could be due to the spell or the eyeballs themselves but she refused to answer when asked by Fiona.
	+ **Pain Alleviation:** Myrtle cast an analgesic spell on Cordelia in order to alleviate the pain for cutting out both of her eyes.
	+ **Mind Control:** She used a spell to control the mind of Wilhelmina Venable to get her key to the room of Jeff and Mutt.
	+ **Immobilization:** She also cast an immobilization spell to force Mutt to put down his firearm and immobilize both him and Jeff.
	+ **Pyrokinesis:** She used a spell to generate fire to set Brock on fire after he stabbed Mallory. This may indicate that she does not possess an innate pyrokinetic ability.
* **Potion Making:** Myrtle has an affinity and extensive knowledge of "green magic", including conventional herbalism as well as more sophisticated botanical science and potion brewing. Myrtle is highly experienced in the creation and use of potent poisons that she can even mix in food and drink, which can be consumed by her victims without their knowledge.
* **Telekinesis:** One of the Seven Wonders and one of Myrtle's favorite powers, she is able to manipulate the movement of objects with the power of her mind. She has used this power to open doors and switch lights on.
* **Divination:** One of the Seven Wonders, Myrtle has the magical power to obtain direct knowledge about an object, person, location, or physical event through means other than her physical senses. This can be activated by just being around a person, focusing on specific tasks, searching for information, or touching objects.
	+ **Lie Detection:** As the Guardian of Veracity in the Vernacular, Myrtle has the magical ability to tell when lies have been told. She used this power in her youth to figure out that Fiona Goode murdered the previous Supreme, Anna Leigh Leighton.
	+ **Location Detection:** She has the magical ability to detect where someone is. Myrtle used this ability to find Kineros Robotics, where Jeff and Mutt worked.
* **Teleportation:** One of the Seven Wonders, Myrtle has the ability to move instantaneously from one location to another. This power is also known as Transmutation. She was shown using this power to escape before Michael could find her.
* **Mind Control:** One of the Seven Wonders, Myrtle has the magical ability to bend the will of another individual and force them to do whatever she desires. This power is also called Concilium, and it can be performed by talking the action in the usuary or simply just focusing on the task. She used this power when she suggested that it was getting late to Ariel and Baldwin, forcing them to leave the room. She also claimed to have used this power while in Barcelona with Bubbles McGee in order to procure some expensive wine. Prior to the nuclear detonations, she used it on the security team at Kineros Robotics and then on Ms. Venable in order to find her superiors, Jeff and Mutt.
	+ **Hypnosis:** Myrtle used this variation of Concilium on the security team at Kineros Robotics and on Ms. Venable by snapping her fingers and putting them under a hypnotic trance to freeze them. Once released from the spell, the victims forgot that it happened.
* **Illusion Casting:** Myrtle also has the magical ability to create, shape, and manipulate illusions, causing others to see, hear, touch, smell, and/or taste things which do not actually exist or cause people to perceive things differently from what they truly are. Myrtle used thi spower on Fiona Goode in an attempt to make her take her own life, showing her a possible future where her lover, the Axeman, left her to die alone of her cancer.
* **Radiation Immunity:** When Myrtle, Madison, and Cordelia arrived at Outpost 3, they walked freely in the toxic atmosphere of the outside world caused by the nuclear bombs without suffering any ill effects from the radiation. This was revealed to be because of the healing properties of the Louisiana mud. The trio of witches buried themselves in the swamp in order to stay protected from the nuclear fallout for almost two years, and as a result, they gained immunity against the fallout.