Resurrection Plants

Farah Dowling's resurrection plant after being unearthed in "Poor Unfortunate Souls"

## **Magic Information**

### Properties

Preserving the life essence of fairies who are killed

### Last Appearance

*Poor Unfortunate Souls*

> This little guy was absorbing every piece of life essence he could. In the First World, they're called resurrection plants.
>
> Flora, "Poor Unfortunate Souls"

**Resurrection Plants** are magical plants which serve as containers for the life essence of powerful fairies. They are said to be like "nature's time capsules".

## Overview

When a powerful fairy uses their magic to call on nature to preserve themselves right before their death, a resurrection plant is created to contain their life essence. The resurrection plant will appear as a dead, wilted plant while dormant, but it will draw on the life essence of living plants nearby to sustain itself. Once powerful magic, such as the Dragon Flame, is channeled into the resurrection plant, it will open up and become green. In doing so, the life essence of the deceased fairy will then appear as a corporeal spirit that can interact with the living world for a brief period of time.

## *Fate: The Winx Saga*

### Season 1

During a confrontation with Rosalind Hale in a fairy graveyard near Alfea College, Farah Dowling knew that the former would attempt to kill her and used her magic to call on nature to preserve her. Farah's instincts were proven correct when Rosalind violently snapped her neck with magic. As Rosalind walked away, Farah's body magically sunk into the earth and flowers blossomed on her newly formed grave. Her life essence was thus preserved within a resurrection plant that remained underground.

### Season 2

While Bloom Peters was on trial for murdering Rosalind, Flora and Terra Harvey had attempted to find evidence that Rosalind killed Farah in order to exonerate Bloom. Using a magical compound capable of tracking a fairy's life essence, they found the location where Farah was killed, but the compound indicated that no body was buried there. Terra used her magic to scan the ground and ended up unearthing the resurrection plant. They initially believed it to be a dead plant, but Flora was able to deduce that it was a resurrection plant when she witnessed it absorbing the life essence of the plants in her room. She called for Aisha to bring her the Convergence Crystal they had used earlier, which contained fragments of Bloom's Dragon Flame. Using her magic, Flora channeled the leftover Dragon Flame energy into the resurrection plant, which opened up and released Farah's life essence as a corporeal spirit.

## Changes from *Winx Club*

The concept of the resurrection plant was loosely based on hibernation magic from the eleventh episode of season 3 of *Winx Club* . Valtor  used hibernation magic to entrap Faragonda 's life force in an oak tree, which was later found by the Winx . With no spell capable of reversing hibernation magic, the Winx ventured to Linphea  in the twelfth episode of season 3  to collect the Black Willow's tears , magical water that can reverse the flow of time and undo the hibernation magic that was cast on Faragonda. The Winx were successful in their mission and restored Faragonda to her human form.

## Trivia

* In real life, a resurrection plant is "any poikilohydric plant that can survive extreme dehydration, even over months or years". This corroborates with Flora's statement that the name came from the First World, though it is unknown what the Otherworld's name is for this plant.
	+ The plant is very similar in appearance with the real world plant, known as *Selaginella lepidophylla.* It looks like a ball made of dead organic matter, which dry themselves out to survive when living conditions become difficult. But when they get wet, they absorb the water and open up, also creating new roots to attach in the ground, making them look as if they come back to life

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Season 2, Episode 6: *Poor Unfortunate Souls*
2. ↑ Season 1, Episode 6: *A Fanatic Heart*
3. ↑ "Resurrection plant" on Wikipedia