Spells and Rituals

**Notice:** This **article** uses content directly taken from the Spells and Rituals **article** at the Vampire Diaries Wiki, and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike License.One of the defining characteristics of a witch is their ability to cast spells; a "spell" being the word used to signify the means employed to carry out a magical action. A spell could consist of ritual action, a set of words, a verse, or any combination of these, many of which are archived in books known as Grimoires. Spells are bound by Nature and can range from simple to complex, depending on the need of the casting witch. Nature demands balance and as such, every spell has a loophole, no matter what magic is used to cast the spell.

For reasons unknown, the majority of spells used by practitioners of Traditional Magic and Spirit Magic are spoken in an ancient language very similar to Latin. However, witches who practice other forms of magic have been known to use spells in different languages; for example, the Nine Covens of New Orleans, which practices Ancestral Magic, performs their spells in French or French Creole, while the Travelers, practicing Traveler Magic, typically perform their spells in a language similar to Czech. Dahlia and Freya Mikaelson have shown to perform spells using a yet to be identified ancient magic in Old Norse, similar to modern-day Norwegian, Icelandic, Faroese, Danish and Swedish.

## Biological Spells

Biological spells allow witches to affect the organic tissue of a living being by changing the state of a body and its natural processes. Although it is most commonly used for healing, other spells can be used to paralyze the body or preserve the recently deceased. Under extremely rare circumstances, it can be utilized to rapidly advance the age or completely alter the state of life.

* **Pain Reduction Spell:** *A spell that can be used to reduce the physical pain of another person. While the pain diminishes, the spell, however, does not have any real healing properties.*
	+ **Incantation:** *Asinta Mulaf Hinto, Sho Bala.*
	+ **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 hybrid 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, Nina, and Lily healed the broken wing of a butterfly after having removed the bracelet that suppressed their magic. In *Goodbyes Sure Do Suck*, as Rafael began dying after the Necromancer severed his connections with his former acolytes, the witches of the Salvatore school magic began various magical analyses and healing spells to save Rafael. Though spells, however, did not did not work as intended.

* **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.

* **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 Henrik, 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.

* **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, Alex, and Ariana 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 Finn, Elijah, and Kol. With all of the ingredients, they 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*, Ariana performed this spell to collect Lily'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*, Alex left this spell with Jack, Hope, and Jax so that they could perform the spell on Landon to determine if he was supernatural in some way. After performing the spell, Hope concludes that Landon has *zero magic* in his bloodline. Alex 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*, Hope, Lizzie, Josie, and Luna 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, Lizzie, and Luna 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*, Alex 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. Nina 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, Josie, and Luna'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 Nina knocked Alyssa unconscious.

* **Humanity Spell:** *A spell that restores a vampire's humanity, should they have switched it off.*
	+ **Incantation:** *Non-verbal*
	+ **Requirements:** Vampire
	+ **Used by:** In *The Darkness In The Doppelgänger*, Alex, with dark magic, forcefully restores Ariana's humanity. In *You Can't Save Them All*, Josie, corrupted by dark magic, forcefully restores Jade's humanity.

* **Echolocation Spell:** *A spell that materializes the voice into a ball of sound and radiates outward. Once the sound has come into contact with another object, it will reverberate and emit a call out to the casting witch.*
	+ **Incantation:** *Ohun. Pada.*
	+ **Requirements:** None
	+ **Used by:** In *We All Knew This Day Was Coming*, Cleo performed this spell to help her locate a door out of the darkness. The spell led her to the Necromancer's prison of the Ice Dream Palace.

* **Blood Weapon Creation Spell:** *A spell that uses hardened blood to form a glass-like weapon.*
	+ **Incantation:** *Vitris.*
	+ **Requirements:** Blood
	+ **Used by:** In *See You On The Other Side*, Jack and Hope performed this spell after biting into their forearm to form their flowing tribrid blood into a hardened weapon capable of slaying Malivore. After retreating within his vessel, Landon encouraged them to end Malivore. As Landon and Hope share a kiss goodbye, Hope plunged the sword into his chest and Jack plunged the sword in his back. Their tribrid blood was consumed in flames as it destroyed Malivore and his darkness.

## Boundary and Sealing Spells

Boundary spells allow witches to erect invisible barriers surrounding a set space for a set amount of time, preventing beings from entering or leaving the said location. However, they do not affect inanimate objects. Several Boundary Spells are tied to astrological events such as lunar or solar phases.

Sealing spells are a more potent form of boundary spells, especially when coupled with the casting witch's blood. When this is done, the spells are nearly impossible to break unless they are from the same bloodline.

* **Tomb Sealing Spell:** *A powerful spell used to entrap vampires within a certain area. Furthermore, the spell would seal the door to prevent anyone from opening the door to the tomb.*
	+ **Requirements:** Emily's Talisman, a Comet (original); two descendant witches, Pentagram, 5 Torches
	+ **Used by:** On September 25, 1864, Emily Bennett performed this spell upon Fell's church to save the tomb vampires from burning. In *History Repeating*, Damon revealed this information to Theo and Stefan, telling him that Katherine and the other vampires had been spared. In *Fool Me Once*, Sheila, Alex, Bonnie, and Ariana performed this spell to lower and raise the seal that bound vampires to the tomb. Given the powerful nature of the spell, it proved to be exhausting to perform and Sheila claimed there was no guarantee that they could get the spell back up again after they lowered it. While the vampires did escape the tomb, it was later proven in *Masquerade* that they were, in fact, able to raise the seal that was capable of binding vampires within the tomb. However, it should be noted that the spell was considerably weakened as it would allow vampires to enter. Unlike Emily's original spell, this spell was also performed without the aid of a comet.

* **Tomb Sealing Counter Spell:** *A spell that can reverse the effects of the Tomb Spell. When performing the spell, the boundary can be lowered. In doing so, it can allow vampires to enter, but not leave. With enough magic, the seal can be lifted, breaking the boundary completely allowing vampires to enter and leave freely.*
	+ **Incantation:** *Phasmatos Salves Nas Ex Malon, Terra Mora Vantis Quo Incandis, Et Vasa Quo Ero Signos.*
	+ **Requirements:** Pentagram drawn on the ground, Four torches representing Earth, Air, Fire, Water, A bottle of water; A full moon,
	+ **Used by:** In *Fool Me Once*, Sheila, Alex, Bonnie, and Ariana performed this spell to "open" the tomb since the Bennett Talisman, the tomb's "key", was destroyed. The original spell was impossible to break unless one knew exactly how it was created 145 years prior by Emily Bennett. In *Rose*, Bonnie confirmed that it took Alex, Ariana, Sheila, and herself to *undo* Emily's spell. Despite this, and the weakened spell freeing the tomb vampires, over time the spell remained intact after they resealed the tomb. This proved to be true in *Masquerade* when Damon, Theo, and Stefan used the tomb to imprison Katherine. After Jeremy was taken hostage by Katherine in the tomb after a failed attempt to retrieve the moonstone, Bonnie attempted to perform this spell again in *The Sacrifice*. To have enough power to perform the spell, she channeled Luka Martin. However, after Luka started to suffer from Bonnie's spell, Jonas broke her connection to his son, preventing Bonnie from lowering the seal. In *By the Light of the Moon*, Elijah, Elena, and Alex reached a peaceful agreement to which Alex requested Theo and Stefan's release from the tomb. Elijah tasked Athena with lifting the spell.

* **Powerful Sealing Spell:** *A unique spell that utilizes the magic (or blood) of a witch to make a potent sealing spell near impossible to break without the specific ingredients.*
	+ **Incantation:** *Phasmatos veras nos ex malom. Terra mora vantis quo incandis per vasa quo errum signos*
	+ **Requirements:** A Witch
	+ **Used by:** In *Masquerade*, Alex, Bonnie, and Ariana cast this spell on a room in the Lockwood Mansion that would trap Katherine, Damon, Theo, and Stefan so that none of the guests are aware of the fight to kill her. Bonnie later adapted the spell again to prevent humans, Elena and Alaric, from leaving the location in *By the Light of the Moon* and *The Sun Also Rises*, respectively. In *Bringing Out The Dead*, it is revealed that Abby Bennett Wilson performed this, or a similar spell on Mikael's tomb after desiccating him. It is unknown how the spell was lifted for Katherine to locate and free Mikael. In *Graduation*, Bonnie sealed the boiler room under the High School to prevent Kol, recently released Ghost from the Other Side while the veil was down, from stopping her from putting the veil back up. In *Somebody That I Used to Know*, it is revealed that Virginia had Lucy Bennett perform the same spell on the The Armory's Vault, sealing it shut so that no other witch except a Bennett could unseal.

* **Powerful Unsealing Spell:** *A direct counterspell to undo the Sealing spell, of which only a powerful witch is capable of performing.*
	+ **Incantation:** *Terra Mora Vantis Quo Incandis, per Vasa Quo Errum Signos. Phasmatos selvus Terra Mora Vantis Quo Incandis, per Vasa Errum Quo Signos. Phasmatos selvus nos ex malom terra mora Vantis Quo Incandis per Vasa Quo Errum Signos. Terra Mora Vantis Quo Incandis.*
	+ **Requirements:** A Witch
	+ **Used by:** In *Masquerade*, Lucy Bennett cast this or a variant counterspell to remove Bonnie's boundary spell in the Lockwood Mansion.

* **Unsealing Spell:** *A spell that enables an enchanted door, or something that has been magically sealed, to open.*
	+ **Bonnie's First Incantation:** *Phasmatos Siprum, Emnis Abortum, Fasila Quisa Exilum San.*
	+ **Bonnie's Second Incantation:** *Phasmatos Tribum, Melan Veras, Et Vasa Quisa, Exu Quisa.*
	+ **Used by:** In *Our Town* and *The Ties That Bind*, respectively, Bonnie Bennett performed these spells upon Esther's magically sealed coffin to try and unseal them, though the spells failed.

* **Doorway Sealing Spell:** *A spell used to lock and seal the doors of a room.*
	+ **Davina's Incantation:** *Unknown*
	+ **Bonnie's Incantation:** *Vis porta.*
	+ **Lily's Incantation:** *Cloditay.*
	+ **Hope's Incantation:** *Dissera portus*
	+ **Emma's Incantation:** *Dissera portus*
	+ **Alyssa's Incantation:** *Unknown*
	+ **Used by:** In *Alive and Kicking*, Davina kept Mikael locked away in the attic of St. Anne's Church locked behind what Kol described as a rather complex spell. No one could enter nor could Mikael leave unless Davina summoned him with the Bracelet of Obedience. Once he was summoned, the spell that locked him within would be undone and the door would open, allowing entry to others. In *Live Through This*, Bonnie Bennett used this spell to seal a doorway when she and Enzo were running from Oscar. In *Death Keeps Knocking On My Door*, Lily, upset with Alaric, performed this spell to lock him inside his office so that she could confront the Necromancer. In *We're Gonna Need A Spotlight*, Hope performed her incantation on the Salvatore school's auditorium doors when the mind-controlling slugs infected the majority of the students and began to chase after her and Landon. She stated that the spell would hold the 'pod people' for now and when the temporary effects of the spell began to wear off, Emma reinforced the spell with the added chains that Dorian applied to hold back the infected students. In *This is Why We Don't Entrust Plans to Muppet Babies*, Alyssa spelled the doorknob to "do not disturb" so she could make out with Jed.

* **Room Isolation Spell:** *A minor boundary spell to seal a room. The spell erects an invisible barrier to prevent specified targets from leaving or to enable certain ones to enter.*
	+ **Incantation:** *Unknown*
	+ **Freya's Incantation:** *Apné sà mene*
	+ **Used by:** Liv Parker would perform a similar spell, in *While You Were Sleeping* and *The Day I Tried To Live*, so that Elena could not feed on innocents and again so that Damon and Elena could not stop her from taking revenge on Kai, respectively. Nora performed a similar spell within the Salvatore house to prevent Elena from leaving the room they tortured her in. She would later give the spell 'slack' telling Elena that she could *use some space to stretch her legs*, in *Never Let Me Go*. While the previous spells have been used to entrap vampires specifically, it is not exclusive. In *Voodoo Child* Freya, using sage, performed her spell on a room in the Abattoir so that Keelin would be safe from the Hollow. Freya claimed that the spell would only allow her entry into the room. In *The Feast of All Sinners*, Dominic performed this spell within St. Anne's Church, restricting Marcel and Sofya's advances towards him and his master, the Hollow. After they spoke, coming to a truce, he released the spell and allowed them to come forth so that he could bow to the Hollow, who was still possessing Hope.

* **Fire Boundary Spell:** *The spell allows the witch to trap individuals within a circle of fire. They would be unable to escape, and any attempt to do so would cause a surge in the fire's intensity.*
	+ **Incantation:** *Unknown*
	+ **Requirements:** Subjects, Fire
	+ **Used by:** In *The Last Day*, Greta Martin used this spell during the Sacrifice Ritual to keep the intended sacrifices (Jenna Sommers, Elena Gilbert, Alex Gilbert, and Jules) trapped during the blood sacrifice.

* **Fire Boundary Counter Spell:** *The spell allows the witch to undo a fire boundary spell, extinguishing the trap.*
	+ **Incantation:** *Namia Exum Solvos*
	+ **Requirements:** Subjects, Fire
	+ **Used by:** In *The Sun Also Rises*, Greta Martin performed this spell to extinguish one of the fire circles.

* **Sealed Boundary Spell:** *The spell prevents entry of vampires into a specific location, though other supernatural species (i.e. ghosts, werewolves, and witches) or humans can pass through.*
	+ **Incantation:** *Unknown*
	+ **Requirements:** Unknown
	+ **Used by:** In *Ghost World*, it was revealed that a boundary spell had been placed at the entryway of the cave deep under Mystic Falls. Given that Klaus was able to inscribe the events of his Mother's murder upon its walls, an unknown witch cast the spell over the cave sometime after the death of 'The Original Witch', Esther. Later, based on Esther's knowledge of the spell, it can be assumed it was cast by her mentor, Ayana, as she was the only other known witch of her village. Furthermore, Esther's possession spell, a witch possessing her daughter's vampiric body, was able to circumvent the bounds, allowing Esther to pass through, as shown in *Heart of Darkness*.

* **Threshold Spell:** *Seemingly an ancient spell that dates back to the creation of vampires. The spell bars entry to vampires into the boundaries of a property or home that is owned by a living person (including witches, werewolves, Doppelgängers, etc.) without first being invited in by the owner.*
	+ **Incantation:** *Unknown*
	+ **Requirements:** Unknown
	+ **Used by:** Though not much is known about the creation of this spell, so called by Bonnie, it was presumably created by the Spirits of Nature, or by Nature itself, that turned against Esther when she created the first vampires. In *Ordinary People*, Athena and Rebekah recounts the consequences of becoming vampires in which she states *Neighbors who had opened their homes to us could now keep us out.* In *Never Let Me Go*, Bonnie states to Matt that the reason vampires are unable to cross the threshold of owned property (by the living) was due to magic. It is also worthy to note that there is no known magical loophole to this spell. As the only way to remove the spell is for the owner of the property to die, which has been shown on numerous occasions. Bonnie goes on to state that to reenact the spell and to *reseal the house, they'll have to sign over the deed to someone else.* Should a vampire be within the bounds of the property of which the deed is signed over to another, the vampires within will be magically and forcibly pulled/pushed from the house, as seen with Theo and Elena.

* **Blood-Knot Sealing Spell:** *A spell unique to the Bennett bloodline that utilizes the power from two generations of witches to seal an object.*
	+ **Incantation:** *Unknown*
	+ **Requirements:** Blood from a specific bloodline
	+ **Used by:** In *Dangerous Liaisons*, Esther reveals that when she died, her friend and mentor, the Witch Ayana, performed this spell upon Esther's coffin after she preserved her body. It is unknown if two generations of witches are required to seal the object, though the spell lasted for nearly 1000 years before two Bennett witches could open the coffin.

* **Blood-Knot Unsealing Spell:** *An unsealing spell that requires the power of two generations of witches to open a certain object. The two generations of witches have to be directly related descendants, such as a mother and daughter, of the original caster.*
	+ **Incantation:** *Sigalis Intransium, Exalis Exalis, Omnas Quisa Operum, Sigalis Intransium, Exalis Exalis. Omnaben Libras, Sigalis Intransium, Exalis Exalis. Omnas Quisa Operum, Exalis Exalis.*
	+ **Requirements:** 2 generations of witches from the same bloodline (Mother and daughter of the Bennett Bloodline)
	+ **Used by:** In *Bringing Out The Dead*, Abby and Bonnie Bennett performed this spell upon Esther's coffin, freeing her, by breaking Ayana's original spell.

* **Salt Boundary Spell:** *This spell creates a barrier that can selectively trap certain species, typically Vampires, within a boundary drawn with salt. The spells used range in power and size, some small enough to trap singular targets whereas others are powerful enough to surround locations as large as an entire school or sections of a large cemetery.*
	+ **Incantation:** *Unknown*
	+ **Requirements:** A line or circle of salt, which acts as the binding agent, is drawn surrounding the area or target
	+ **Used by:** In *Do Not Go Gentle*, The Original Witch, Esther Mikaelson, used this spell outside of Mystic Falls High School, preventing any vampires from following her and Elena. Humans, however, were able to walk right past it. In *Every Mother's Son*, Esther, now in Lenore's body, used salt or another unknown powder to facilitate a barrier against Klaus to protect herself. In *Ashes to Ashes*, Dahlia created a small, localized boundary around herself and Freya so she could kill her and the Original without any interference from either. However, the recently resurrected Esther was able to cross the boundary with ease, suggesting that the boundary was to keep out vampires. In *For the Next Millennium*, Davina used her magic to draw Alex to Lafayette Cemetery and used a salt boundary spell to contain her until she could shift back into her human form. In *A Ghost Along the Mississippi*, Freya cast a salt boundary spell around Aurora, who was heavily drugged and confined within the spell. However, she escaped via Lucien either aided by another witch of his or by one of the numerous dark objects he stole. In *Dead Angels*, Vincent, as Regent, placed a boundary spell within a portion of Lafayette Cemetery to protect Cami from Klaus. While the spell prevented Klaus (vampires) from entering, the Sister Witches had no issues and were able to cross the salt line. In *A Streetcar Named Desire*, Freya placed a boundary spell over the tomb that Klaus was in the process of sealing Aurora inside to prevent anyone from releasing her. In *No More Heartbreaks*, Davina performed a salt boundary spell within Rousseau's when she confronted Lucien. He, however, was easily able to pass over the salt barrier with the assistance of the Ancestors, who rendered the spell useless. In *Gather Up the Killers*, Vincent, at Marcel's request, crafted a new boundary spell that would allow vampires to enter but unable to leave and strong enough to contain an original, so that Klaus could fight Alistair but not flee the compound. In *Haunter of Ruins*, Freya contained Keelin in a salt circle bound by numerous candles to keep her safe and to prevent her from fleeing again. In *I Hear You Knocking*, Freya bound Marcel in the same prison that held Klaus and cloaked him to prevent those from his sireline from seeing him. In *Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea*, Klaus forces Colette, a witch he kidnapped, to perform a boundary spell around him, herself, Josh, Valentina, and David as he kidnapped them so that they all would be pushed to find Alex. In *There in the Disappearing Light*, an unnamed witch working for Emmett cast a boundary spell, bound in salt, around Marcel so that Emmett could exact his venom. Despite the spell being bound in salt, upon the witch's death at the hands of Josh, the spell broke.

* **Traveler Sealing Spell:** *The spell allows the Travelers to seal off a certain location, entrapping anyone within with an invisible barrier.*
	+ **İncantation:** *Otum adnarvet esnavit atim.*
	+ **Requirements:** Traveler Magic
	+ **Used by:** In *No Exit*, the Travelers, on Wes' request, to seal Enzo and Damon inside a house. They seemed to have control over who could and couldn't leave, however, as they let Enzo out.

* **Sacred Ground Sealing Spell:** *The spell functions by closing off a certain location to all vampires. The only way they could enter was through an invitation by the witch who cast the spell. The spell remained in effect even after Jane-Anne's death, however, after Sophie's death, the spell was lifted, implying that it was bound to Sophie's life.*
	+ **Incantation:** *Unknown*
	+ **Requirements:** Ancestral Magic
	+ **Used by:** In *Sinners and Saints*, it's revealed that Sophie Deveraux cast this spell, shortly following the failed attempt at the Harvest, to seal off Lafayette Cemetery from vampires without an invitation. The spell was seemingly lifted with her death.

* **Confinement Spell:** *The spell is generally used by witches, specializing in Sacrificial Magic, to protect their sources of power (i.e. sacrifices). A binding circle is drawn using a concoction of various ingredients that form a white powder. When it is drawn on the ground, the spell confines a person or object within the marked space, preventing anyone else from entering. It is a convoluted spell that can be broken by powerful binding agents such as rock salt, volcanic ash, eye of newt, or the blood of a more potent witch.*
	+ **Incantation:** *Unknown*
	+ **Requirements:** Sacrificial Magic
	+ **Used by:** In *Dance Back from the Grave*, Papa Tunde performed this spell on a few unnamed vampires before setting his sights on the Original vampire, Rebekah Mikaelson. When complete, Rebekah was completely immobile (desiccated), and the spell prevented entry so that no one could move her while he was channeling her strength and healing abilities. It was later used by Finn (in possession of Vincent) to protect his father and later his mother whom he was channeling in *Gonna Set Your Flag On Fire*.

* **Mary-Alice's Boundary Spell:** *The spell will be bound to an object that is supposed to be pinned down on a gate surrounding the location.*
	+ **Incantation:** *Unknown*
	+ **Requirements:** Ancestral Magic, Object as a binding agent
	+ **Used by:** In *The Map of Moments*, Mary-Alice used this spell to prevent anyone from entering the dowager's house by sticking a doll's head onto the gate.

* **Ancestral Sealing Spell:** *This spell sealed a set location, barring entry to all, other than that of a witch from the ancestral line of the original witch who cast the spell.*
	+ **Incantation:** *Unknown*
	+ **Requirements:** Ancestral Magic, Blood of a Claire (Specific Bloodline) Witch
	+ **Used by:** In *Chasing the Devil's Tail*, Kol reveals to Davina that Mary-Alice Claire used this spell to prevent anyone, especially Kol, from entering their crypt, known as his 'playhouse', where they created dark objects and schemed against Klaus. Mary-Alice confirmed this to Astrid moments before their realization of being sealed in the Dowager's House.

* **Boundary Manipulation Spell:** *The spell allows a witch to manipulate the effects of a boundary spell placed by another witch. It can allow the witch to turn around the boundary's effects, for example, a spell that is supposed to keep people out will keep people trapped inside of a certain location.*
	+ **Incantation:** *Aven safa sa belise, de la mer...*
	+ **Requirements:** Ancestral Magic, Binding agent of the original spell
	+ **Used by:** In *The Map of Moments*, one of Klaus' witch allies used this spell to turn Mary-Alice's spell against her and Astrid by trapping them within the dowager's mansion, as well as to curse the entire place by ensuring that once a person is inside, they can no longer leave.

* **Reinforced Boundary Destruction Spell:** *A spell that utilized raw magical power to break through (reverse) a complex imprisoning spell placed on a building.*
	+ **First Incantation:** *Destruccive glas stav enfala. Destruccive glas stav enfala.*
	+ **Second Incantation:** *Apné en vrata!*
	+ **Third Incantation:** *Repo oma dal most*
	+ **Requirements:** Physical contact with the binding agent
	+ **Used by:** In *Sanctuary*, Freya used the first spell to free herself, and Rebekah, of the Asylum's manipulated boundary spell, that prevented anyone from leaving, with raw magical power. Though not reinforced, it remained a complex spell that persisted over time, to which Rebekah indicated that it would take a powerful source of magic for her and Cassie to channel to break. In *I Hear You Knocking*, Freya performed yet another variation of this spell to break through the Hollow's spell that barred entry to the abandoned house where it first appeared. The spell was too strong to break on her own accord and, with Elijah's arrival, she was able to channel him and successfully broke through the spell. In *Keepers of the House*, Freya attempted the second incantation over a safe in Marcel's penthouse, though the spell failed. Without drawing unwanted attention, by forcing her way into the safe, Keelin said she would use her werewolf instincts and enhanced abilities (from the moonlight ring) to break into the safe.

* **Sacrificial Boundary Spell:** *A powerful spell that can trap dozens of people inside of a building. If touched, the boundary will severely burn the person trying to pass through. The spell has to be bound to an incredibly powerful sacrifice, something long-lived and indestructible, such as an original vampire.*
	+ **Incantation:** *Unknown*
	+ **Requirements:** Powerful sacrifice, used in Sacrificial Magic, as a binding agent
	+ **Used by:** In *Gonna Set Your Flag On Fire*, Finn used this powerful spell to trap the werewolves and the vampires inside of the Abattoir by binding the spell to Mikael, an original vampire.

* **Ancestral Boundary Reversal Spell:** *The spell allows a witch to undo a boundary spell, however, if the boundary spell is bound to a powerful object, reversing it would be impossible without the binding agent. It was later confirmed as the same spell used to disrupt any form of magic.*
	+ **Incantation:** *Singuinata Venet a Superem*
	+ **Requirements:** Ancestral Magic, Two or more witches
	+ **Used by:** In *Gonna Set Your Flag On Fire*, Kol, Henrik, Davina, and Ariana attempted this spell to reverse Finn's boundary spell, however, they were unsuccessful. The most that could be done was to disrupt the spell for a single minute.

* **Finn's Boundary Spell:** *Through a hand gesture towards the target, the witch can trap a certain person inside of an undetermined space.*
	+ **Incantation:** *Kembe po transi*
	+ **Requirements:** Sacrificial Magic
	+ **Used by:** In *The Devil is Damned*, Finn used this spell to prevent Elijah from coming anywhere near him when he came for Jack, Hope, and Artemis.

* **Lunar Boundary Spell:** *The spell will be bound to the moon and will last until the next moonrise.*
	+ **Requirements:** Ancestral Magic, Moon as a binding agent.
	+ **Used by:** In *Le Grand Guignol*, Céleste used this spell to only trap the Originals inside of the City of the Dead. Vampires such as Marcel could leave the confinements of the boundary. In *Moon Over Bourbon Street*, Genevieve later used a similar spell to trap Kieran inside of the attic of St. Anne's so that he would not hurt Cami before his death.

* **Lunar Boundary Counter Spell:** *The direct counterspell to Céleste's lunar boundary spell.*
	+ **Requirements:** Ancestral Magic while Channeling Céleste's magic
	+ **Used by:** In *Farewell to Storyville*, Genevieve channeled Céleste's magic, after she had been consecrated, to break her spell to release the Originals from the cemetery.

* **Expression Lunar Boundary Spell:** *A witch can close off an open space by erecting an invisible barrier simply through focusing, trapping the target inside of the enclosed location. The spell is bound to both the new moon and the casting witch, therefore, it will wear off in three to four days or sooner should something happen to the witch.*
	+ **Requirements:** Expression, New Moon
	+ **Used by:** In *A View to a Kill*, Bonnie used expression to trap Klaus inside the Gilbert's living room after Elena and Jeremy killed his brother, Kol. Bonnie drew on the new moon to bind the spell, thus the spell was temporary and would only last three to four days. In *Down the Rabbit Hole*, it was proven that when Bonnie almost died, the spell was broken and he was freed.

* **Solar Boundary Spell:** *The spell is bound to the sun, therefore, the targets will be trapped inside of a certain location until sundown the same day.*
	+ **Incantation:** *Unknown*
	+ **Requirements:** Sun as a binding agent
	+ **Used by:** In *Handle with Care*, Silas used this spell, whom he learned from Qetsiyah, to trap her and Stefan inside of her cabin so that he could find the Anchor's location before she could.

* **Qetsiyah's Imprisonment Spell:** *The enchanted vines will keep the target in place. The vines can't be broken by anyone until the witch who cast the spell reverses it.*
	+ **Incantation:** *Unknown*
	+ **Requirements:** Vines
	+ **Used by:** In *Original Sin*, Qetsiyah used this spell to subdue Stefan so that she could link him and his doppelgänger, Silas.

* **Expression Tomb Raising Spell:** *The spell unsealing a powerful tomb spell surrounding an Island simply through focusing.*
	+ **Requirements:** Bennett Witch, Expression, Complete Hunter's Mark, Perfectly symmetrical circle
	+ **Used by:** In *Down the Rabbit Hole*, Bonnie Bennett performed this spell, while using Expression and the completed Hunter's Mark from Jeremy, to open, unseal and reveal the tomb to the world's first immortal, Silas. Specifically, it requires a powerful Bennett witch to perform the spell, a descendant to the witch that originally spelled the tomb.

* **Qetsiyah's Tomb Sealing Spell:** *The powerful sealing spell that was cast around The Island to prevent Silas from escaping his eternity of desiccation.*
	+ **Requirements:** Bennett Witch, Expression (presumably), Perfectly symmetrical circle
	+ **Used by:** Qetsiyah performed this spell, with unknown magic, to seal away the world's first immortal, Silas. This spell was carefully crafted with such unique ingredients, that it was one of the most difficult sealing spells to break, lasting since the first century. In *We All Go a Little Mad Sometimes*, Shane reveals the origins of Silas's fate and of the spell that entombed him.

* **Sire-Line Boundary Spell:** *An augmented "invitation" spell that prevents entry of vampires into a certain location, other than vampires of the sire-line whom the spell was cast upon. This particular spell gave sanctuary to a vampire from other vampires like that of Humans owning property.*
	+ **Incantation:** *Unknown*
	+ **Requirements:** Unknown
	+ **Used by:** In *You Hung the Moon*, Lucien's witch, Alexis, presumably cast this spell on his penthouse suite to prevent the entry of all vampires, other than those from the same sire-line.

* **Rebekah's Boundary Spell:** *A spell that creates a boundary bound by a circle of salt around a target that the witch wishes to protect, keeping anyone outside from entering the circle.*
	+ **Incantation:** *Unknown*
	+ **Requirements:** Circle of Salt, Ring of Candles
	+ **Used by:** In *Beautiful Mistake*, Rebekah, in Eva Sinclair's body, performed this spell around her original, vampiric body to keep anyone from coming near it.

* **Semipermeable Boundary Spell:** *A spell that creates a boundary that allows a witch to trap a specific target while allowing anyone else to cross between it. While the bound person cannot leave of their own free will, they can be pulled from the boundary by another.*
	+ **Incantation:** *Unknown*
	+ **Requirements:** Circle of Salt, Runes
	+ **Used by:** In *The Other Girl in New Orleans*, Freya Mikaelson performed this spell on the restrained Tristan de Martel to torture and question him of the whereabouts of their sister, Rebekah. In *A Ghost Along the Mississippi*, Freya later adapted this spell, in the form of a semicircle from wall to wall, to prevent a transitioning Cami from leaving the compound, at Klaus' request. She later broke the spell so Cami could make her own choice.

* **Barrier Spell:** *The spell allows a witch to erect a boundary spell quickly in a small vicinity around them. One variant lack preparation or binding agents and maintained by the will of the caster through hand gestures while other forms of this spell can be utilized with a time limit.*
	+ **Freya's Incantation:** *Non-verbal*
	+ **Penelope's Incantation:** *Unknown*
	+ **Hope and Nina's Incantation:** *Unknown*
	+ **Josie's Incantation:** *Inteo*
	+ **Nina's Incantation:** *Clostrum*
	+ **Emma's Incantation:** *Unknown*
	+ **Hope and Luna's Incantation:** *Expello*
	+ **Requirements:** Focus
	+ **Used by:** In *Behind the Black Horizon*, Freya Mikaelson performed this spell to protect her brothers Finn and Elijah from Lucien. This spell was cast with great focus and a hand pose. In *Mombie Dearest*, Penelope cast the barrier spell on the gymnasium in the Salvatore Boarding School to prevent Rafael, and by extension Hope. Penelope states that the spell will last for one hour and then they will be free. Despite Hope's abilities, she was unable to undo the spell claiming that only Penelope could, or either Alex, Lizzie, Josie, Lily, or Stefanie could have siphoned the spell away. In *There's a World Where Your Dreams Came True*, Hope and Nina prepared a barrier spell to trap the next Malivore creature when it would inevitably come to steal the urn. In *We're Gonna Need A Spotlight*, it's revealed that they tied the spell to a makeshift fence made from sticks and tree limbs. Once the unicorn, carrying the mind-controlling slug past the barrier, it was trapped and, by Hope and Nina's account, harmless. Despite that a barrier was in place, the slug-like creature that the unicorn carried had no issue with passing the boundary spell. After Josie was infected, the slug controlled her to remove Hope and Nina's spell, by siphoning, so she and Penelope could retrieve the urn. In *Since When Do You Speak Japanese?*, Josie performed this spell to prevent anyone from entering, or leaving Alaric's office at Mystic Falls High School, except for herself, to protect Landon and Kurutta from the oni. She later reversed the spell to allow Hope and Lily to enter. In *This Christmas Was Surprisingly Violent*, Nina freed Ryan, whose consciousness was contained in Simulandon, to help them figure out what new Malivore monster was released. However, Ryan claimed that he found another loophole out of his situation and betrayed them. Nina performed this spell to seal him inside one of the rooms at the Salvatore school to find out what he wished for from the Krampus. In *This is Why We Don't Entrust Plans to Muppet Babies*, after the qareen knocks Josie out, Landon states that Emma put up a barrier spell so that the qareen can't escape from the school. In *What Cupid Problem?*, Hope and Luna performed a barrier spell within the school's gymnasium to prevent Pothos from escaping. However, the spell only functioned to prevent him from crossing a wall-to-wall boundary and not encompass the room. This allowed Pothos to fly up and break through the roof. In *You Can't Save Them All*, Hope performed a spell to protect herself from Kai, as her previous attack failed and he rushed her with his vampiric speed. Alyssa also performed a similar spell to protect her while she attempted to sever Kai's connection to the 2018 Prison World. After Wendy and Jade were freed from the Prison World, they and Alyssa were moved from the boarding school to the Old Mill and placed behind a barrier spell by Josie.

* **Reinforced Boundary Spell:** *A powerful and complex spell to imprison a target within a set location, either with salt or within a building.*
	+ **Incantation:** *Unknown*
	+ **Requirements:** Salt and candles; House
	+ **Used by:** In *Gather Up the Killers*, it's revealed that Vincent had placed Klaus behind a powerful boundary spell, to prevent him from leaving or from others from entering, and reinforced it over the five years he was held captive. Its precise function is unclear, as he also mentioned he spelled the chains that restrained him. In *I Hear You Knocking*, the Hollow cast a similar spell on the abandoned house and blocked Freya's advances. This was done so that Marcel and Klaus would fight to the death and prevent Freya's, or another's interruption. On both occasions, these spells were powerful enough to prevent Freya's entry and she needed time and something to channel to break and/or weaken. In *A Spirit Here That Won't Be Broken*, the Hollow cast the boundary spell over a room within the LaForge house, where she held Alex captive and bound it to her protection totem. The spell was impossible for Freya to break and was only released when the protection totem was destroyed by Klaus.

* **Blood Seal Unsealing Spell:** *A spell that utilizes a witch's blood to directly unseal a sealed object or location.*
	+ **Incantation:** *Déblotché par mon sang.*
	+ **Requirements:** The caster's blood
	+ **Used by:** In *No Quarter*, Vincent performed this spell on his hidden and magically locked safe to retrieve his journal that contained information on powerful dark magic.

* **Life-Force Linked Boundary Spell:** *A boundary spell that utilizes a witch's heartbeat to sustain the spell. Should the witch's heart stop, the spell will be broken.*
	+ **Incantation:** *Unknown*
	+ **Requirements:** Casting Witch, Sage, Map, Iron/Sand
	+ **Used by:** In *High Water and a Devil's Daughter*, Freya bound this spell to her heartbeat to protect her brother from Hollow's followers. Dominic later learned of the spell's weakness, commenting that it was "old magic", and temporarily killed Freya. Even though Keelin resuscitated her, the spell was already broken.

* **Dominic's Boundary Counterspell:** *A counterspell to reverse the effects of a boundary spell. However, this spell also was able to release the effects of a glamour spell.*
	+ **Incantation:** *Libérer à vérité à.*
	+ **Requirements:** Trapped Target
	+ **Used by:** In *High Water and a Devil's Daughter*, Dominic performed this spell to free "Marcel", who was Josh who was glamoured, from a boundary spell. The spell's side effect also disrupted the effects of the glamour spell and showed Josh's true form.

* **Bone Boundary Spell:** *An old spell that utilizes bones to enact a powerful barrier keeping all unwanted targets away from the intended sacrifice.*
	+ **Incantation:** *Unknown*
	+ **Requirements:** Sacrificial Magic, Bones; Two candles and an animal skull in the middle, set in each cardinal direction outside a salt circle.
	+ **Used by:** In *Queen Death*, the Hollow placed Elijah behind this boundary to prevent his family from reaching him before her resurrection was completed. In *Phantomesque*, the Hollow placed the recently resurrected, Davina within this boundary spell to prevent Kol from reaching her and to use her as leverage to get to him.

* **Bone-Bound Boundary Counterspell:** *A counterspell to reverse the effects of the Bone-Bound Boundary spell.*
	+ **Incantation:** *Aubsbeaute an pjons pìns*
	+ **Requirements:** Trapped Target
	+ **Used by:** In *Queen Death*, Freya attempted to break the Hollow's boundary spell though it was too strong for her and she lacked enough time to appropriately dismantle the spell.

* **Rock Boundary Spell:** *A spell that is bound to a specific structure of four rocks placed atop one another. Should the placement be disrupted, the spell will be undone.*
	+ **Incantation:** *Unknown*
	+ **Requirements:** Four Rocks in a vertical structure
	+ **Used by:** In *What, Will, I, Have, Left*, the Witch working for Greta performed this spell to prevent others from entering and rescuing Alex from the house known as Shiloh Place.

* **Doorway Unsealing Spell:** *A spell used to unlock an opening of a passage, whether bound with locks or chains.*
	+ **Incantation:** *Dissera portus.*
	+ **Requirements:** None
	+ **Used by:** In *The Sacrifice*, Alex used this spell to force open Slater's doors that have been chained shut from the other side. In *This is the Part Where You Run*, Hope used this spell to force open a church where a priest was attempting to exorcise Rafael Waithe, as he thought he was possessed by a demon. In *This Year Will Be Different*, Nina used this spell to magically open up a janitor's closet as she and Hope hunted from what they believed was a troll.

* **Shield Spell:** *A spell used to shield the casting witch from an oncoming attack, such as from fire or electricity.*
	+ **Incantation:** *Scutum.*
	+ **Requirements:** None
	+ **Used by:** In *Some People Just Want To Watch The World Burn*, Hope and Lily performed this spell to hold back the fire from the unnamed dragon girl while Rafael disengaged her from continuing her fire breath attack. In *Life Was So Much Easier When I Only Cared About Myself*, Hope performed this spell again to shield herself from Josie's attack. The spell worked, initially, however, Josie's magic quickly overwhelmed Hope.

* **Containment Spell:** *A spell used to contain a person or entity within a limited boundary.*
	+ **Incantation:** *Imperium monstrum.*
	+ **Requirements:** None
	+ **Used by:** In *We're Being Punked, Pedro*, after being attacked and chased by a Gargoyle, Nina cast this spell to prevent the creature from escaping from the Salvatore Boarding School and out into the world.

* **Basic Boundary Spell:** *A basic level boundary spell used to contain a person in a small room.*
	+ **Incantation:** *Unknown*
	+ **Requirements:** Unknown
	+ **Used by:** In *Mombie Dearest*, Alex performed this spell twice to contain the recently resurrected Josette Laughlin. Alaric and Dorian wanted to question Josette, as they believed it was a new creature disguised as Alaric's dead fiancée to steal the supernatural knife. In *The Boy Who Still Has a Lot of Good to Do*, Alex mentions that she would seal Rafael in his room to protect the wing of vampires should he shift back into his werewolf form after suffering from lunar psychosis.

* **Bubble Boundary Spell:** *A bubble-like boundary spell used in a localized area to protect the casting witch(es) and those around them.*
	+ **Incantation:** *Bulla*
	+ **Requirements:** none
	+ **Used by:** In *There's a Mummy on Main Street*, Hope, Lizzie, Josie, and Luna confronted the mummy in Maple Hollows. blocking its path on the main street, the mummy attacked first by creating a plague of hornets. The witches countered the mummy's 'curse' with the bubble boundary spell to protect themselves. The mummy retaliated with another attack to cause Hope, Lizzie, and Luna 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. Knowing the mummy would reform and resurrect due to the cursed bound by the scarab that empowered the monster, Alaric devised a plan to steal the urn from Triad Industries. With the mummy on another rampage, Alaric instructed Kaleb to confront the mummy directly, to vamp speed up to it, and steal the scarab. He tossed the pendent to Josie and Lizzie where they began to siphon the curse. The mummy stalked forward and confronted Hope and the others, creating another plague of hornets. Hope performed this spell for a second time to buy more time for Josie and Lizzie to finish siphoning the curse from the scarab; however, the hornets dissipated before reaching Hope. The curse had been lifted and the mummy was dead.

* **Unlocking Spell:** *A spell to undo a physical lock.*
	+ **Incantation:** *Dissero*
	+ **Requirements:** Lock
	+ **Used by:** In *There's A Place Where The Lost Things Go*, Emma performed this spell on a locked locker. Removing the lock and opening the locker, she found Rupert Vardemus, who's mind had been stored within his device, trapped by Ryan Clarke.

* **Subconscious Containment Spell:** *A spell used to bind a person's consciousness within their mind.*
	+ **Incantation:** *Finitus.*
	+ **Requirements:** None
	+ **Used by:** In *Facing Darkness is Kinda My Thing*, dark Lily used this spell on her "weaker" self to prevent her from leaving and taking back control of her consciousness. Lily, however, changed her own story and the spell failed.

* **Burning Barrier Spell:** *A barrier spell that burns anyone that attempts to create physical contact with the the object that the spell is cast upon.*
	+ **Incantation:** *Unknown*
	+ **Requirements:** Object
	+ **Used by:** In *Long Time, No See*, Alaric asked Lily to cast this spell over the 2030 prison world ascendant to prevent Hope, or anyone else, from taking or using the ascendant without his approval. MG attempted to take the ascendant and was burned within a couple inches of grabbing it. Lily also suggests that if MG continues to try and take it, he would burn his hand off. Lily, however, was able to siphon the spell and make physical contact with the ascendant as she sided with MG to prevent Hope from using the ascendant without proper preparation.

* **Nature-Bound Boundary Spell:** *A spell that binds a boundary spell to freshly cut tree branches to prevent the target trapped within from leaving.*
	+ **Incantation:** *Unknown.*
	+ **Requirements:** Tree branches
	+ **Used by:** In *All's Well That Ends Well*, Cleo or Hope presumably performed the spell in order to contain the banshee within the Salvatore School's gymnasium. Alaric was able to break the spell and enter the boundary by moving away some of the tree branches.

* **Room Isolation Reversal Spell:** *A reversal spell to unseal a room's boundary spell.*
	+ **Incantation:** *Consilium*
	+ **Used by:** In *I Was Made To Love You*, Hope cast this spell to remove the barrier that sealed "Landon" within the Old Mill when he began to react to droplets of her blood.

* **Artifact-Sealing Spell:** *A spell to seal oneself into an artifact that shielded her from Malivore.*
	+ **Incantation:** *Unknown*
	+ **Used by:** In *One Day You Will Understand*, Cleo shares her past memories with Alaric and explains how she inspired Leonardo DaVinci to create the artifact that she imbued with magic that could shield her from Malivore. The seal could only be broken by the one capable of killing Malivore; Hope. The spell sealed Cleo within the artifact for centuries, seemingly keeping her from aging and experiencing pain.

* **Vessel-Sealing Spell:** *A spell to seal golem to a structure.*
	+ **Incantation:** *Ówô ba a se èdìdì.*
	+ **Used by:** In *One Day You Will Understand*, Cleo shares her past memories with Josie and showed her how she became Malivore's prisoner and was forced to create monsters for him to consume. After many years, she was inspired to create a vessel that freed him from the confines of the spell that spawned him. However, she had complete control over the vessel and bound him to two stalactites. Despite Cleo's claiming the vessel was perfect, Malivore claimed that he could already feel it's weak points and that he would eventually break free to find her. In modern day Mystic Falls, the vessel, the Vitruvian Man, did eventually escape though at the expense of two of his four arms.

## Cloaking and Illusion Spells

Cloaking spells allow witches to either render a being, location or object physically undetectable to the senses or magically undetectable by locator spells, making it so that magic cannot track them.

Illusion spells are an advanced form of Cloaking spells that allow witches to project into the mind of a target and affect the senses to perceive a false reality of a being, location or object which they can then manipulate.

* **Illusionary Cloaking Spell:** *More commonly known as an invisibility spell, this spell allows a witch to cloak themselves and their targets — be it a person, object or certain locations completely based on one's perception. However, magic can be disrupted by magical objects. The distance in which a witch can cloak their target is directly proportionate to their level of skill.*
	+ **Gemini Incantation:** *Invisique*
	+ **Liv's Incantation:** *Phasmatos radium calaraa, Phasmato... (Alternative)*
	+ **Emma's Incantation:** *Nullum visa laris*
	+ **Used by:** When Bonnie could not cloak the four coffins, the Spirits of the Witch Burial Ground cloaked the Mikaelson family coffins whenever they sensed allies of Niklaus, in *The New Deal* and in *Our Town*. In *The Ties That Bind*, the Spirits later reversed the spell when Klaus threatened their living descendants, including Bonnie and Abby. In *Down The Rabbit Hole*, Ariana uses a non-verbal cloaking spell on her and Katherine to keep their presence unknown the the Gang. In *Fade Into You*, Joshua Parker used this spell to cloak his house and later to render himself invisible. In *I Alone*, Kai interrupts Damon, Theo, and Elena's attempt to rescue Bonnie from the prison world. After siphoning some of Liv's magic, he performs this spell to disappear. However, Damon was still able to get the upper-hand against him when he manages to knock him into the anti-magic border with a tree branch. In *Woke Up With a Monster*, Kai, having siphoned the entirety of the anti-magic spell that covered Mystic Falls, kidnapped Elena to practice and get his magic under control. Before Elena, he practiced on the manager at Mystic Grill, where he was finally able to perform a cloaking spell on him. Once he figured it out, he explains, it's easy to do and to undo. Which he promptly undoes the spell to show Elena the managed body of the manager. Wanting to rescue Elena, Theo wanted to have Liv cloak him so he could sneak into Mystic Falls High School, without Kai noticing. Liv agrees to do the spell, but she's not going into the school. If Kai sees her, she's dead. Instead, she tells him that she's strong enough to do the spell from outside while he goes in. Despite their plan, as Liv begins the spell, she disappears. Instead, Luke appears before Theo, having been cloaked himself, and tells him that Liv doesn't have the time for this. Luke then promptly disappears with the *Invisique* spell. Luke's magic was stronger than her own and she couldn't fight it. With his plan disrupted, Damon opts for plan B. Josette will perform the cloaking spell to help Theo rescue Elena, however, given that she's out of practice with her magic, she'll have to remain by his side for the spell to work, meaning she'll have to go inside the school, potentially facing Kai. With plan B working, Jo and Theo can rescue Elena, though now cloaking three people, including herself, the spell was becoming too taxing for her and she eventually reached her limit. She collapsed and, with her, the spell too, which revealed them. Kai finds them and cloaks himself and Elena. When "Kai" reappears, Theo attempts to impale him with a mop handle, but Kai appears next to the 'fake' Kai, revealing that he also glamored Elena with an illusion spell to make her look like him. In *Age of Innocence*, Valerie recounts to Elena when she first met Theo, in 1863 at the Mystic Falls County Fair. Julian however is there too and attempts to find her, but she siphons a bit of magic from her amulet to hide herself and Theo, revealing that she's a witch. Present-day, however, Valerie finds and sits next to Theo at Mystic Falls Hospital. She reveals that she was with child before Julian beat her within inches of her life, though the baby doesn't make it. Despite recounting the story to Theo, she was cloaked the entire time and Theo remained unaware of her presence. In *Live Through This*, Valerie seeks out to destroy Julian's body to prevent Lily and the others from resurrecting him from the Phoenix Stone. After Valerie finds him, she attempts to destroy his body with a fire spell, though the flames immediately go out. Valerie's confused, but Nora and Mary Louise appear, having been cloaked, and stopped her attempts. In *Mommie Dearest*, Valerie casts the *Invisique* spell over herself, Elena, and Caroline to protect themselves from Beau, still loyal to Lily and Julian. Having done so, she made the realization that the Progeny Locator spell worked when it pointed to Caroline, despite the media tests failing. Josette's babies were also cloaked when they were transferred to Caroline via the Gemini's Surrogacy Spell. In *Postcards from the Edge*, Valerie helped Theo and Stefan rescue Damon from his and Julian's boxing match. Valeria cloaked Theo and Stefan and performed a non-verbal pain infliction spell on Julian. Overwhelmed with pain, Theo and Stefan appears and Theo punches Julian and helps Damon out of the boxing ring. Later that night, Valerie and Theo return to find Julian. Valerie has cloaked herself, Theo and Julian, so none of his friends can see his death. Valerie incapacitates him with another pain infliction spell and Theo stakes him dead. In *Days of Future Past*, Nora cloaked herself and attempted to attack Enzo. She pulls him from the police car, but he recovers enough to punch her to the ground. Distracted, she loses the spell and she appears and attempts to throw him back with a *Motus* spell and a pain infliction spell, but Enzo eventually gains the upper hand over her. In *I Went to the Woods*, Valerie cloaked herself after fighting with Damon and, per his suggestion, when to find Rayna. In *We're Being Punked, Pedro*, to protect the lower class grade students from the gargoyle, Emma cast this spell in the grand hall and made it seem as if the room was empty. In *I'll Never Give Up Hope*, Hope and Nina performed this spell on herself to hide from the Shadow creatures that roamed Malivore. Ryan, however, could still see them, while the creatures couldn't. In *That's Nothing I Had to Remember*, Lizzie used the *Invisique* spell on her and Landon. Landon hoped that if they were invisible then they could pit the reanimated zombie jogger against the croatoan. This doesn't work so they lure it into a cell and lock it in. Despite being cloaked, the croatoan could still hear Lizzie and Landon speak, wherein other instances, users of this spell were completely cloaked in all forms. In *It Will All Be Painfully Clear Soon Enough*, Hope, Nina, Lizzie, and Josie performed this cloaking spell on themselves and the magically restrained sphinx to conceal their activities from the general public. In *Long Time, No See*, Lizzie telekinetically took Josie's coin with her stored siphon power from Hope. To prevent Hope from taking and giving it back to Josie, she cast the *invisique* spell on the coin and tossed it into the cemetery grounds. In *All's Well That Ends Well*, Lizzie used the *invisique* spell to hide herself from MG while at Mystic Falls High School. Still cloaked, she took the opportunity to help Josie reconnect with Finch by knocking her books from her arms so she would be prompted to help pick them up with her. After a successful reintroduction, Lizzie dragged her to the side of the locker and continued to guide her. Later that night, Lizzie performed the spell again to follow Finch back into the Salvatore School to see who she was seeing after she rejected Josie. Lizzie, however, learned that Finch was a werewolf and was using the school's basement to shift under the full moon. In *Fate's A Bitch, Isn't It?*, Josie performed this spell over herself and Finch so they could hide from Ethan, who Nina was given an impromptu tour of the Salvatore School. Josie and Finch were attempting to hide everything supernatural. In *You Have to Pick One This Time‎‎*, Hope performed this spell over her, Jack, and MG so they could sneak into Malivore's cage to infiltrate his subconscious mind to find Cleo.

* **Illusion Spell:** *The spell allows a witch to alter the perception of the immediate vicinity creating illusions of objects and other people. Such spells range from creating manifestations that appear real to altering the physical form of another or themselves. At more advanced levels they can become physical manifestations.*
	+ **Incantation:** *Unknown*
	+ **Professor Vardemus' Incantation:** *Phantamogriphia Decorum*
	+ **Used by:** In *Wheel Inside the Wheel*, as Klaus was attempting to desecrate Esther's corpse by setting it on fire, the latter used an illusion of Elijah to intervene. Through the illusion, Esther sought to persuade Klaus to talk to Esther and to hear her out about her "deal" (to take the body of a mortal). However, Klaus deduced that *this* Elijah was an illusion and Esther came forth. In *Woke Up With a Monster*, Kai performed an illusion spell over Elena, which made Theo perceive that Elena was himself. Theo attacked the illusion of Kai, nearly staking Elena in the heart. Kai, who was cloaked, revealed himself moments later after Theo rushed to Elena's side. In *Dead Angels*, Madison utilized an illusion spell to taunt Klaus, while she was safely behind Vincent's boundary spell to keep out vampires. Once the illusion was broken, she attacked Klaus by combining telekinesis and pain infliction before she snapped his neck. In *I Hear You Knocking*, the Hollow created illusions, via a dark magic "infection" upon Klaus and Marcel, appearing to them as people that they feared or hated to torment them to eventually get them to fight each other to the death. In *A Spirit Here That Won't Be Broken*, the Hollow used the illusions of Stefan and Keelin to appear to Alex and Freya, respectively, as they attempted to kill her. Having the spell bound to her Protection totem, that also augmented her power, Stefan became a physical manifestation, able to physically harm Alex. The illusion was broken when the protection totem, which bound the spell, was destroyed by Klaus. In *This Year Will Be Different*, Professor Vardemus performed this spell, which seemed to have initiated from his ornate ring, on the Salvatore Boarding School for the Young & Gifted headmaster's office to change the appearance from that of the former headmaster, Alaric. Though the spell was "simple", he believed that appearances can be important. In *What Cupid Problem?*, Hope reveals that Alyssa performed an illusion spell on the ascendant to prevent anyone from bringing Alaric, Josie, Lily, and Lia back from the 2018 prison world. In *Kai Parker Screwed Us*, Josie performed an illusion spell on a small bottle of Vodka, making it appear to be a vial of Bennett blood, ultimately to trick Kai when he double-crossed her.

* **Disillusionment Spell:** *The spell allows a witch to counter illusion or cloaking spells, revealing magically hidden objects or people.*
	+ **Kai's Incantation:** *Phasmatos Oculacs*
	+ **Hope and Lizzie's Incantation:** *Invisque saeclum*
	+ **Lizzie's Second Incantation:** *Videt*
	+ **Used by:** In *Woke Up With a Monster*, Malachai Parker used this spell to reveal a bloody corpse to Elena, whom he had taken hostage. In *What Cupid Problem?*, Alyssa performed this spell to reveal the cloaked ascendant. Before giving it to MG, she dropped it on the floor, causing it to break into numerous pieces. In *Long Time, No See*, Hope dreamed of entering the prison world to save Landon. Reaching the gates of the Salvatore School, a Croatoan blocked her path, but her cloaking spell prevented the creature from seeing her. Once the monster left, she performed the spell to reveal herself and eventually found Landon before she awoke. In *All's Well That Ends Well*, Lizzie performed this spell to remove the *invisique* spell after Finch found her and grabbed her by the throat as she began to turn into a werewolf. Lizzie opted to stay and help finish chaining her up, but Finch told her to run as it was too late. In *You Can't Run From Who You Are*, Lizzie performed this spell to reveal herself to MG who had lied about compelling Ethan's memories of the supernatural. In *Fate's A Bitch, Isn't It?*, Josie reverses the cloaking spell as Ethan and Lizzie continue their tour of the school. In *You Have to Pick One This Time‎‎*, Hope performed this spell to uncloak her and MG after sneaking into the cage that held Malivore to secretly infiltrate Malivore's subconscious. In *There's No I In Team, or Whatever*, Lizzie cast this spell to show Josie her checklist about Ethan and their romance. Once cast the list appeared on her mirror.

* **Gemini Cloaking Spell:** *A spell used to shield oneself from a locator spell and disrupts visions trying to pinpoint their location. It can also be used on a group of people so long as they stay in a reasonably close approximation to the witch casting it.*
	+ **Incantation:** *Unknown*
	+ **Requirements:** A ring of candles, Salt and Iron powder
	+ **Direction:** An intricate pattern is drawn within the ring using the salt and iron powder. After this, the witch steps into the center of the circle and enters a trance state.
	+ **Used by:** In *Rescue Me*, Hazel had been performing this spell for 4 months to hide Stefan's last Doppelgänger, Tom Avery, from the Travelers. Luke Parker later used the same spell to hide Elena and Stefan from Markos and the Travelers in *What Lies Beneath*.

* **Silencing Spell:** *The spell works by throwing a handful of salt into a lighted candle. As long as the candle is lit, no one, including vampires and hybrids will be able to hear anything. Instead, all they will hear is a sizzling sound. Variations of the spell can cause audible noise, such as car alarms, to become completely silenced.*
	+ **Olivia's Incantation:** *None*
	+ **Cleo's Incantation:** *Edacay*
	+ **Requirements:** A lit candle, Salt
	+ **Used by:** In *Rescue Me*, Olivai used this spell to keep Tyler from listening in on her and Jeremy's conversation. In *Yup, It's a Leprechaun, All Right*, Cleo performed this spell on a number of cars that had been ransacked by the leprechaun which caused their car alarms to sound. The spell only removed the sound while the flashing lights continued.

* **Privacy Spell:** *A spell that is cast over burning sage. Aas long as the sage burns, no one will be able to overhear anything from the room in which it burns.*
	+ **Requirements:** Burning sage
	+ **Used by:** Esther used this spell in *Dangerous Liaisons*, to keep her children from overhearing her and Elena's conversation. Bonnie later tried the same spell but was unable to perform it in *All My Children*. In *Dead Angels*, the Strix witch, Madison, used this spell to keep Vincent and Camille from hearing Klaus. She coupled the spell, by waving over the sage, to disrupt Klaus' cell reception. It was also used by Freya so that she and Hayley could torture Aurora without disruption in *Out of the Easy*.

* **Cloaking Spell:** *A spell developed and used to hide specifically from locator spells. Various witches employ different means and magics that range in power to stay effectively hidden from other witches.*
	+ **Requirements:** Sandalwood
	+ **Used by:** Esther has used this spell on at least two occasions. Once in *Do Not Go Gentle* to successfully hide from Bonnie's locator spell and then again in *Wheel Inside the Wheel*, while possessing the witch Lenore, to keep Elijah hidden from Klaus and his allies. In *From a Cradle to a Grave*, Klaus instructs Rebekah to find a trustworthy witch to cast a cloaking spell on Hope. Later, Rebekah finds and has an unnamed witch to cast the spell. It is mentioned later, in *The Devil is Damned*, that it was so powerful, that it would take a hundred witches to break. This was notable as Esther searched for Rebekah since her possession of Cassie and later as Lenore though could not find her directly and utilized her Starlings to find Rebekah. Finn, possessing Vincent, used numerous and varying types of locator spells, to no avail, to find Hope and ultimately took Freya's knowledge and power to find her. Davina, since *Rebirth*, established a rather powerful cloaking spell, while utilizing Esther's grimoires, to effectively hide from Esther in both of her vessels. In *Brotherhood of the Damned*, Finn (possessing Vincent) effectively blocked Davina's locator spell, presumably with an equally powerful cloaking spell. However, in *The Devil is Damned*, Freya hints that even as powerful as he was, she was still able to find him. In *Exquisite Corpse*, it's revealed that Eva would cast cloaking spells on her victims that she would kidnap and that it was powerful enough to keep witches from the nine covens from finding the witch prodigies. In *Heart Shaped Box*, it is revealed that, before her death, Madison cast a powerful cloaking spell, fueled by dark magic, on Aurora so that neither Freya nor the Sisters could locate her. In *Where Nothing Stays Buried*, Freya mentions that she cloaked her siblings to keep them hidden from Lucien, though she comments that with the Ancestors, it would only be a matter of time before the spell would be undone. In *Haunter of Ruins*, Klaus mentions that Hayley's safe house they were staying at was cloaked. As far as who cloaked the house remains elusive, meaning Hayley could have had a witch to cloak it to protect Hope or that Freya could have cloaked it upon her awakening. In *I Hear You Knocking*, after Freya bound Marcel to the same prison that held Klaus, she cloaked him to hide his presence. Additionally, in *Bag of Cobras*, Klaus mentions that Freya's spell also renders Marcel invisible to anyone outside of their bloodline. In *Queen Death*, the Hollow cloaked Elijah while she prepared his death, as a sacrifice for her resurrection spell. In *Where You Left Your Heart* and *One Wrong Turn On Bourbon*, Hope performed a cloaking spell, that she combined with a sleeping spell, on Hayley to keep her safe so that she could bring Klaus back to New Orleans. In *Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea*, Hope attempts to undo her cloaking spell on Hayley though Freya reveals that to do so, you have to be in the same room as her and that lifting a cloaking spell remotely has never been done in the history of witchcraft. In *What, Will, I, Have, Left*, Hope cloaked herself and Roman to hide from her aunt Freya, or anyone else, while she attempted to have the Hybrid Curse placed upon herself. She also states that the cloaking spell she placed on Hayley was specific to her as a hybrid. In *There's Always a Loophole*, when Triad Industries used a dark object created by the Travelers to block out magic at the Salvatore boarding school, the cloaking spell that Alaric had placed on his bookshelf was neutralized. Hope, Lizzie, and Josie found in its place a locked box which they'd later open to reveal the 2018 ascendant to Kai's prison world. It remains unknown who performed the cloaking spell, whether it was Bonnie, Emma, or another witch, and for how long the cloaking spell had been in place in Alaric's office.

* **Traveler Cloaking Spell:** *A powerful cloaking spell developed to hide a target even from the all-seeing Spirits of the Other Side.*
	+ **Requirements:** Traveler Magic
	+ **Used by:** Markos, or presumably his travelers, cast this spell to hide Markos so that his plans to undo the curse could be kept a secret from the Witches on the Other Side. Sheila mentions in *Resident Evil* that whoever came through the Anchor was hiding and that whatever was happening to the Other Side had the Witches scared.

* **Essence Reveal Spell:** *The spell allows a witch to unveil and detect concealed mystical essences within talismans or relics.*
	+ **Incantation:** *Unknown*
	+ **Requirements:** Target Object
	+ **Used by:** In *Never Let Me Go*, Bonnie performed this spell on the Phoenix Stone when she could not sense any magic emanating from it.

* **Ancestral Illusory Spell:** *The spell allows ancestral witches to project an illusion over an entire location, transforming it such that unwanted intruders perceive it to be an infinite maze and will walk in circles. However, it is seemingly not powerful enough to deceive the sire-bond as such, sired hybrids are still able to sense the location of their sires.*
	+ **Requirements:** Place of power (e.g. Lafayette Cemetery), The Ancestors
	+ **Used by:** In *From a Cradle to a Grave*, Monique, Abigail, and Genevieve in collaboration with the Ancestors performed a massive illusory spell to hide from Klaus and Elijah while they attempted to sacrifice Hope. The spell created a never-ending maze of Lafayette Cemetery that would confuse and disorient those trapped within.

* **Ancestral Cloaking Spell:** *The spell will cloak several people so that the location seems empty to anyone outside as long as the witches continue chanting.*
	+ **Incantations:**
		- **Davina's Incantation:** *...keschede sede ni canun keschede senu ni...*
		- **Kaleb's Incantation:** *...excede canun infenun da ba nunc ca nun,senon canu ni...*
	+ **Requirements:** Ancestral Magic, Two or more witches are required, lit candles.
	+ **Used by:** In *Live and Let Die*, Davina and Kol (possessing the witch Kaleb) used this spell to cloak themselves and Mikael from Klaus, though when Davina was knocked out, the spell ended.

* **Decoy Spell:** *A spell that uses the practice of representational magic to allow a witch to craft the illusion of the target's presence onto a clay doll, replicating its power source. However, the illusion only lasts for as long as the witch focuses on the spell.*
	+ **Incantation:** *Sin eh-tey ex avan-ha vin tan-took koh.*
	+ **Requirements:** Golem, Beating heart, Blood of target, Crushed herbs, A lit candle
	+ **Used by:** In *Fire with Fire*, Rebekah Mikaelson performed this spell to aid her sister, Freya, and brother, Elijah, in their plan to defeat Dahlia, by luring her to the Compound through the use of a Golem which represented Hope.

* **Moroccan Cloaking Spell:** *A powerful spell that completely cloaks a target and prevents locator spells from finding them. The spell is strong enough to obscure locations from cities to even that of continents.*
	+ **Incantation:** *Unknown*
	+ **Requirements:** Target
	+ **Used by:** In *Beautiful Mistake*, the Moroccan Witch performed this spell upon Rebekah's Original body for the Strix to use her as leverage on Klaus and Elijah, though Aurora dispatched the Strix that was transporting her body and dumped it into the ocean.

* **Glamour Spell:** *A powerful spell that can grant a person the appearance of another. The spell is performed by obtaining the hair of the target and using it as a conduit on a poppet which serves as the anchor of the spell. The spell is activated once the poppet is dipped into blood (presumably of the person whose appearance the target is taking). Should the witch wish to remove the glamour, the poppet needs to be burned.*
	+ **Incantation:** *Kache l'nan san. Jen chèch je yo.*
	+ **Requirements:** Dozens of Candles, Bowl of Blood, Target's Hair, Voodoo Poppet, Animal Bones
	+ **Used by:** In *A Ghost Along the Mississippi*, Freya Mikaelson and Vincent Griffith performed this spell by channeling one another to grant Camille the appearance of Aurora, Tristan's sister, so she could lead Tristan into a trap, the activated Serratura.

* **Regent Cloaking Spell:** *A powerful spell that Regent witches of New Orleans can use to completely hide the whereabouts of individual people.*
	+ **Incantation:** *Cœur là vous votre tai ma say tou...*
	+ **Requirements:** Dozens of Candles, Animal Bones, Stones, Power of Regent
	+ **Used by:** In *You Hung the Moon*, Davina first performed this spell as Regent to conceal Hayley's presence. In *Dead Angels*, Vincent Griffith later performed this spell by channeling the power as Regent to conceal Camille's location even from an equally powerful witch (Freya).

* **Diversion Spell:** *A spell to prevent witches from finding the true location of a target by deviating their presence to a set location. Therefore any witch performing a locator spell will be drawn to said false location.*
	+ **Incantation:** *Unknown*
	+ **Requirements:** Target's Blood, Burning sage, Oleander, Spotted Owl Feather, Candles
	+ **Used by:** In *An Old Friend Calls*, Kol designed the spell for Freya to perform to divert Klaus' true location, and make it appear that she was in New Orleans.

* **Bennett Illusionary Manifestation Spell:** *A powerful spell to conjure an illusionary wall that prevents its target(s) from discerning what is real and what is fake.*
	+ **Incantation:** *Averte oculos tuos a quo exitus. Hunc exitus ab auribos.*
	+ **Requirements:** Bennett Witch
	+ **Used by:** In *What Are You?*, Beatrice Bennett performed this spell to entrap the Siren sisters within the Armory's vault preventing them from escaping. The spell acts upon one's sight and hearing to alter the perception of the target's senses (of touch) into believing the manifestation is real. The loophole to this ingenious spell is that should one be without their vision or hearing, they would be able to walk right through the spell. The spell held the siren(s) for two centuries. In *It's Been a Hell of a Ride*, the spell that had lasted 228 years was siphoned away by Kai.

* **Freya's Glamour Spell:** *A spell that can grant a person (i.e. vampire) the appearance of another.*
	+ **Incantation:** *Mutare seu rosto*
	+ **Requirements:** Target
	+ **Used by:** In *High Water and a Devil's Daughter*, Freya performed this spell upon Josh, to glamour his appearance into Marcel, to lure Dominic into a trap.

* **Translucence Spell:** *A spell that causes objects or walls to become see-through as if looking through glass.*
	+ **Incantation:** *Preitori Speculo*
	+ **Requirements:** Ceiling
	+ **Used by:** In *This is the Part Where You Run*, Hope performed this spell to let Landon see the night sky while he stayed in the werewolf transition space.

* **Hope's Glamour Spell:** *A spell that can alter the appearance of another.*
	+ **Incantation:** *Unknown*
	+ **Requirements:** Illusion Ring
	+ **Used by:** In *This Christmas Was Surprisingly Violent*, Hope performed this spell, seemingly with Ryan's illusion ring, to alter the appearance of Simulandon while it housed Ryan's consciousness. Hope told him that she turned him into the vilest thing she could imagine, but that was just Ryan's true appearance.