Salem/Anne Hale

**Anne Hale** is a powerful cradle witch from the *Salem* series and the daughter of Magistrate Hale and Countess Von Marburg.

## Powers and Abilities

**Witchcraft:** According to Reverend Cotton Mather, the power of a witch is not only dependent on the source of their magic but also on their knowledge and training in witchcraft. While it appears that all witches obtain their magic from the Devil, not all witches have the same experience or expertise in the Dark Arts, nor do they share the same powers. According to Mather, the primary sources of power that almost all witches draw from are death and lust. Anne is a powerful cradle witch, and as stated by Tituba, her bloodline is one of the oldest and highest among the witches. Her true mother is the legendary, ancient witch currently known as Countess Ingrid Von Marburg, one of the last survivors of the true witches, making Anne a product of massive power. This was 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.

* **Spell Casting:** Anne has demonstrated an aptitude for spells, casting a complex water charm on her first attempt.
	+ **Love Inducement:** She later casted an effective love spell on Cotton Mather, binding his will to hers and allowing her to manipulate him into marrying her.
	+ **Pregnancy Transferal:** Soon after finding Gloriana, Anne performed her first truly dark spell through the use of an old and elaborate ritual. This ritual allowed her to steal Gloriana's unbnorn child from her womb. Following this, Anne's specter, a charred, blackened hag appeared, reflecting the corruption of Anne's own soul due to the dark forces of witchcraft.
	+ **Memory Erasure:** Another significant spell that Anne easily performed was her memory stripping spell when she completely removed all traces of Gloriana's past life and memory from the latter's mind simply by ripping it through Gloriana's eye socket. During this process, Gloriana herself saw Anne in the form of her specter.
* **Telekinesis:** Anne's first notable magical feat was the murder of both of her parents after her father finally convinced her into believing in her witchcraft. In anger, her magic finally activated and she slammed her father into a wall and caused her mother's dead to combust with a great telekinetic ability. She quickly learned how to control this ability, 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:** She also quickly learned how to use her telekinetic ability to achieve the effect of puppetry with fluent movement, further demonstrating her talent and great magical heritage.
	+ **Paralysis Inducement:** After greatly advancing her telekinetic abilities, she demonstrated the ability to place her victims into a physical paralysis of sorts, as seen when she paralyzed Gloriana with a simple wave of her hand. She was later able to stop the movements of dozens of people at Knocker's Hole as if the entire place was frozen in time, all while in her astral projection.
* **Life Force Manipulation:** Arguably her most impressive abilities include her manipulation of life and death, which she learned to control towards the completion of the Grand Rite. She eventually learned how to control, create, and destroy life by practicing on a flower seed while following her father's instructions.
	+ **Accelerated Regeneration:** She was first seen using these abilities when she attempted to kill herself, only for her blood to be drawn back into her sliced wrist, which then healed itself. According to Mary Sibley, this act was fueled solely by Anne's actual desire to survive.
* **Atmokinesis:** It has been seen that her 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 has only been previously performed by her mother, an ancient and powerful witch, thus it is possible that only cradle witches have such an effect on the weather.
* **Mind Control:** Much like Mary Sibley, Anne is able to use her familiar demon, in the shape of a rat, to gain control over an individual. In Anne's case, she did this with her own husband, Cotton Mather. This ability quickly evolved to the point where she possessed complete control over her victims, allowing her to place limits on them in terms of what they are able to do.
* **Teleportation:** Anne is also capable of mild teleportation, which she can achieve by triggering it only with a mask that belonged to her father. It is unknown if she is capable of teleportation without the mask.
* **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 usually are while performing this feat. After she completely subdued herself to her master, she demonstrated the strongest type of astral projection ever seen when she entered a trance at the Sibley House while sending realistic projections of herself all over Salem, all done through a simple blood sacrifice.