Elemental Spells

Elemental spells allow witches to affect their surroundings by manipulation of the natural elements. The four elements fire, water, earth, and air are the most basic and can be called forth for their specific properties. Higher controls of the environment such as the weather or plant-life may require channeling Nature's energy or massive amounts of power.

Fire Spell: A spell that can create fires or ignite flammable objects such as alcohol. It is similar to the passive, non-verbal pyrokinetic power used by most witches.

Incantation: Incendia / Phasmatos Incendia (Alternative)

Vincent's First Incantation: Irascitur detruire

Vincent's Second Incantation: Crée le feu

Josie's Incantation: Ignis absumet

Warlock's Incantation: Ignarious. Ignarious!

Josie's Second Incantation: Ignarious

Josie's Third Incantation: Ignalusa

Cleo's Incantation: Seda...

Cleo's Grandmother's Incantation: Da Ina.

Cleo's Second Incantation: Íjóná

Used by: In History Repeating, Emily Bennett, while possessing her descendent Bonnie, performed this spell to ignite a pentagram that she drew on the ground. After the ritual began she threw her her talisman into the air and caused it to explode. With the talisman destroyed it was believed that Damon couldn't enter the tomb that supposedly held Katherine. In Yellow Ledbetter, Bonnie attempts the variant spell, though she is unsuccessful as she has still not been able to regain her magic. In Welcome to Paradise, Bonnie finally regained her magic; by concentrating she lit a single candle and then proceeded to turn her attention towards Kai. Using the variant incantation, she was able to create two large barriers of fire by igniting alcohol to stop Kai from hurting and killing Damon. In I Alone, after Kai freed himself from the 1994 prison world, he smashed the 1994 Ascendant into numerous pieces. After Elena had collected each of the pieces, he used the alternate spell to fully destroy the 1994 Ascendant making it impossible for them to banish him again or to rescue Bonnie. In Let Her Go, after crossing into the 1903 prison world, she trekked through the snow to the Salvatore house and used the original incantation to set candles and the fireplace ablaze to warm herself. In Because, Bonnie used the incendia spell to ignite a circle of candles as she prepared to destroy the 1903 Ascendant. In Christmas Through Your Eyes, Kai mused with Josette about what the spell was for fire in an attempt to burn Liv alive but stopped after Josette freed herself from her chains. In I'll Wed You in the Golden Summertime, Bonnie has a dream where she's attacked by Kai and Lily. She attempts to burn Lily alive with the alternate spell, however nothing happens. After running, she's attacked by Kai where he tells her he siphoned her magic, making her unable to use it. However, she's awakened by Elena before Lily attacks her from behind. In Day One of Twenty-Two Thousand, Give or Take, Valerie performed this spell to cause chaos during the graduation of new Mystic Falls deputies. In Live Through This, Valerie performed the incendia spell in her attempt to destroy Julian's preserved body. However, after casting the spell, the fire suddenly went out. After she performed the spell again, the fire dissipated a second time. Unknown to her, Mary Louise and Nora were cloaked and stopped her spell. In Coming Home Was a Mistake, Seline, a siren, had Lizzie and Josie siphon magic from her and taught them the Incendia spell. They performed it on a pile of wood and, unknowingly, to burn Georgie's corpse as a tribute to Arcadius. In Detoured On Some Random Backwoods Path to Hell, Seline had the twins siphon her and use the Incendia spell again as part of her ritual to summon Arcadius. In The Lies Will Catch Up To You, Josie attempted, though without siphoning magic, the incantation against her sister Lizzie though both Caroline and Alaric grabbed the children before the spell was finished. In Haunter of Ruins, Vincent used his spell in an attempt to destroy a book related to sacrificial magic, though it was protected against destruction. In One Wrong Turn On Bourbon, Vincent performed his second spell while Ivy performed a Tarot Card reading, to reveal the cards that would show them what the future would hold. Initially, it was the Sun, Temperance, and Chariot cards, all signs of good things to come; however, those cards soon ignited as well, revealing more sinister cards, the Hangman, Devil, and Tower cards. In This is the Part Where You Run, Josie, overcome with rage and revenge due to Penelope Parks breaking her heart, attacked and set her right arm on fire. Other students near her helped to smother the flame before they could spread. In We're Being Punked, Pedro, in 14th century, France, the Brave and Nervous Warlocks came across the supernatural knife. Upon seeing the Gargoyle, known as the guardian, the nervous warlock attempted to flee but was attacked and killed by the knife's protector. Witnessing his friend's death, the Brave Warlock attempted to incinerate the creature with fire, but it had no effect on him and the warlock perished. In Hope is Not the Goal, Josie used this spell, after siphoning from Rafael, to attack the Arachne and set it on fire. The spell, however, did little to harm it and only angered it. In There's a Mummy on Main Street, with Hope and Lizzie incapacitated by the effects of the mummy, Josie protected herself from his 'curse' and cast another fire spell. The spell formed a fireball in the palms of her hands and 'blew' the fire, creating a flamethrower-like effect, towards the monster. The spell was strong enough to incinerate the mummy to complete ash but left the Egyptian scarab and the anubian urn undamaged. In There's Always a Loophole, Hope used the Incendia spell against the Headless Horseman, though the spell did not affect him. Hope would use the Incendia spell once again in This Year Will Be Different while fighting against a "troll". Hope directed the spell against the troll and it ignited the creature's hair, which revealed that the creature was not a troll, but a cyclops. In You Remind Me of Someone I Used to Know, Hope used the Incendia spell again while fighting the shunka, a creature that hunts werewolves. Unlike other instances of when the spell has been performed, Hope channeled the spell with her hand and expanded it towards the shunka in an outward radius. The spell engulfed the shunka, evening pushing the creature back several feet, though it remained unharmed by the fire. In That's Nothing I Had to Remember, Lizzie, siphoning from Kaleb, uses the Incendia spell on the reanimated jogger in an attempt to destroy the next Malivore monster. MG tells her that they need to trap it so that Malivore can't send another monster and that incinerating it defeats the purpose. Lizzie then uses another spell to put the flames out. In This is Why We Don't Entrust Plans to Muppet Babies, Alyssa used the Incendia spell directly attacking Hope and Josie as the qareen caused discord among the witches during Coven Day. Hope stopped the spell and Lizzie siphoned from Hope to retaliate. In Life Was So Much Easier When I Only Cared About Myself, Josie used this spell to create a fireball to launch at Hope. Hope dodged the spell, and the fireball engulfed a wooden pillar, splintering it into a large wooden stake. In We're Not Worthy, Lizzie performs the incendia spell against the Green Knight. The spell engulfed the knight in a fury of flames, but left the monster unaffected. Josie surmises that he's immune to fire. In I Was Made To Love You, Cleo attempted to force Hope into fulfilling her potential - to die and become full tribred. After her attempt at stabbing her with an axe failed, she attempted to cast a fire spell but was knocked unconscious before she could complete the spell. In Fate's A Bitch, Isn't It?, Hope performs the incendia spell directly on Ryan Clarke after he was attacked by Malivore, within his vessel. Malivore had cut his throat and was profusely bleeding out. Unwilling to take Hope's blood, fearing he would die because of his Malivore DNA, Hope decided the only other option was to cauterize the wound. In There's No I In Team, or Whatever, Cleo's grandmother performed a fire spell to light various candles in preparation of her transfusion ritual circa 1464. Present day, Josie cast the incendia spell in a similar fashion to light numerous candles. In I Thought You'd Be Happier To See Me, Lizzie and Josie travel through Alaric's memories. On their eleventh birthday, Josie remembers that Hope, who wasn't invited, turned their cake filling into worms and Lizzie retaliated with a Motus spell. Hope tried to Incendia Lizzie's dress though Josie put up a shield spell and it deflected her spell and set their presents on fire. In You're A Long Way From Home, Cleo, MG, Jed, Kaleb, Ethan and Josie use the Therapy Box to figure out how to handle Hope. In the simulation, with Cleo still immobilized and the last one remaining casts the incendia spell, burning Cleo alive where she stood. In You Will Remember Me, Hope confronts Agatha St. Clair. Using a black candle, Hope nullified their magic, though Agatha was unaware of the object's effects and attempted to burn Hope with the incendia spell. Cleo also performed her second incantation where she burned the Red Oak wood log to protect Hope, as its wood was deadly to her. While the spell rendered the pile of logs into ash, two small logs survived. In I Can't Be the One to Stop You, Aurora performed the incendia spell while in Hope's body. Her first attempt at the spell, however, was without precision, demonstrating to Lizzie that she wasn't Hope, but Aurora. Later, as she felt her connection to magic grow stronger, she managed to light torches in the basement of her estate. Hope also performed this spell to destroy Lizzie's Red Oak stake. In The Story of My Life, after Hope escaped Professor Vardemus' chambre de chasse, she used the motus spell to take Lizzie's Red Oak stake. Hope intended to use it against Lizzie, but Lizzie performed the incendia spell to destroy it instead, as she was a vampire now and it would have killed her, too. In I Wouldn't Be Standing Here If It Weren't For You, Hope cast the incendia spell to speed up the destruction of the transformed butterfly from her Fear Release spell. In This Can Only End in Blood, Hope mocked Aurora for bringing a spear to a magic fight. In an attempt to destroy her weapon, Hope cast incendia, however, her magic was ineffective. Aurora confessed that her spear was forged with god magic, rendering her witchcraft useless. Later, after Aurora saved Hope in her battle with Ken which resulted in her death, Hope and Lizzie gave Aurora a Viking funeral at the lake at the Salvatore School. They set her body on fire with the incendia spell.

Fire Manipulation Spell: A spell that can decrease and/or increase the intensity of localized small to medium-sized fires. At a more advanced scale for powerful witches, it can be used to control explosions and that of large spanning fires.

First Incantation: Ex Spiritum In Tacullum, En Terrum Incendium, Phasmatos Salves A Distum.

Second Incantation: Phasmatos motus incendiamos!

Used By: In Founder's Day, Bonnie Bennett used this spell to diminish the flames in the basement of the Old Gilbert Building so that Stefan could save Damon. Once sensing that they got out, she brought the flames back up so that all the other vampires within could perish. In We're Planning a June Wedding, Bonnie used the second incantation by adapting her ancestor's Hellfire Manipulation Spell. She taught the spell to Lizzie and Josie and, together, they performed this spell to protect themselves from a huge, fiery explosion. The spell worked to prevent fire, smoke, and heat from coming near them as if they were within a magical bubble. Bonnie then directed the entire explosion and residual flames up and out of the building through the fireplace chimney.

Fire Extinguishing Spell: A minor spell used to extinguish small fires in a localized area.

Bonnie's Incantation: Suctus Incendia

Hope's Incantation: Adiuuatur

Used By: In Disturbing Behavior, Bonnie used this spell to quench the fires set by the darkness that engulfed her grimoires on her and Jeremy's laps. In Into the Wild, the witch Massak performed a similar spell to neutralize Bonnie's expression locator spell that utilized a path of fire to her located target. It is presumed that Nora and Mary Louise performed a similar spell, in Live Through This, as Valerie's fire spell was extinguished before Julian's body could be destroyed. In Some People Just Want To Watch The World Burn, Hope performed this spell to prevent the spread of fire from what was initially believed to be from a fire-breathing witch, a pyromancer; however, it was revealed to be a dragon. Hope mentions that the spell was a "quick fix" and would not last long. In The Boy Who Still Has a Lot of Good to Do, Hope attempted her spell for a second time when they found Landon's corpse which began to smoke and catch on fire. The spell had no effect and Landon's body burned to ash, though his body was restored similar to that of Rayna Cruz; Alaric likened it to the legend of the phoenix.

Ember Spell: A minor spell used to teach new witches to ignite objects on fire, like a line of salt.

Incantation: Phasmatus Ignitium Dos Ex Salvo, Phasmatis Ignitium Dos On Salvo, Phasmatis Ignitium Dos On Salvo

Requirements: Line of Salt

Used By: In While You Were Sleeping, Bonnie 'taught' this simple fire spell to Liv while she was under the ruse of being a newbie witch, in which she purposely failed.

Nature Spell: A spell that channels Nature to enhance and accelerate the growth of flowers, plants or entire gardens.

Bonnie's Incantation: Phasmatos Tribum, Melan Veras. Phasmatos Tribum, Melan Veras

Hope's First Incantation: Crescere arbor.

Hope's Second Incantation: Corrupan vinea.

Hope, Lizzie and Josie's Incantation: Phasmatos Tribum, Veras Regenera.

Used by: In Break On Through, Bonnie Bennett performs this spell to accelerate the growth of a plant, explaining to Caroline that witches have a connection to the Earth, that they can literally feel nature and by extension life, after Abby's transition into a vampire. In Original Sin, Qetsiyah mentions that 2,000 years ago she created an entire garden (wedding flowers, the garden trellis, their harvest) for her wedding, though it started to die when she realized that Silas had betrayed her. In When the Levee Breaks and again in Ashes to Ashes, Dahlia used a similar spell to create and rapidly accelerate the growth of many dahlia vines at St. James Infirmary and at the Abattoir, respectively. Furthermore, in the former, she accelerated the growth of Aiden's rose bouquet to the point where they withered and died. In That's Nothing I Had to Remember, Hope used this spell to entrap the Croatoan in vines that rapidly grew from the earth. The vines ensnared him momentarily until it freed itself. In All's Well That Ends Well, Hope performed the second incantation to ensnare the newest Malivore monster, a women possessed by a banshee. The spell caused a number of vines and roots to sprout from the ground and wrap around the banshee's waist, preventing her from moving from where she stood. In We All Knew This Day Was Coming, Lizzie and Josie performed this spell on the day she decided to fully become a tribrid. The spell caused the surrounding cherry blossoms to bloom while creating a small sapling sprout from the ground. The spell was a promise of a new life and a new life full of promise.

Plant Revival Spell: A spell used to channel Nature to revive dead vegetation.

Incantation: Phasmatos Tribum, Plantus Vivifey, Plantus Herbus.

Used by: In Prayer For the Dying, Josette Parker unsuccessfully attempted to revive a dead plant at the hospital.

Flower Revival Spell: A spell that channels Nature and the Ancestors to revive dead flowers.

Incantation: Belle la vie a cette fleur, maintentant.

Requirements: Ancestral Magic

Used by: In Moon Over Bourbon Street, Monique, Abigail, and Davina used this spell to revive roses at the Lycée. Initially, Davina was unable to perform the spell, though after gaining her confidence back, was able to outperform the other two Harvest girls. In Give 'Em Hell Kid, Kol mentions that when he first saw Davina, she was leaving St. Anne's Church and brushed up against some dead flowers. At that moment, she looked around and brought those flowers back to life with her magic.

Plant Decomposition Spell: A spell used to contaminate plant life along with any mystical properties it may possess thus, rendering it useless as a magical ingredient.

Incantation: Unknown

Used by: In Red Door, Kol used this spell to contaminate the root to prevent Davina from completing her Sire-line Unlinking Spell. As the spell progressed, the root decayed and blackened.

Tempest Spell: A powerful spell performed using potent sage to summon a storm from afar. The witch then proceeds to blow into the bowl, intensifying the storm. The spell can also quell the storm, should the witch so desire.

Requirements: Bowl of serpent's blood, Sage, Stones, Candles

Used by: In City Beneath The Sea, Dahlia performed this spell to invoke a storm over the Bayou, as a means of keeping Hayley, Jackson and their pack from fleeing New Orleans. In Fire with Fire, Dahlia dismissed her spell, causing the storm to pass.

Water Flow Spell: A minor spell used to find and control nearby sources of water.

Incantation: Confuso fatina, ignos et ignos mortifina.

Requirements: None

Used By: In Day One of Twenty-Two Thousand, Give or Take, Valerie, Mary Louise, and Nora used this spell to set off the sprinkler system in Mystic Falls Time Square during the induction of the new police academy recruits. The focus of the spell was ultimately used as a distraction and then as an accelerant for Valerie's fire spell that followed, causing mass panic and chaos.

Hellfire Manipulation Spell: A powerful spell that utilized a large coven of Bennett witches to contain, control and prevent the unleashing of hellfire.

First Incantation: Phasmatos motus incendiarios!

Second Incantation: Phasmatos incendia movet, phasmatos incendia moventur, ego ex vos, vos ex unos, phasmatos incendia entrare! Phasmatos incendia movet, phasmatos incendia moveo!

Requirements: Bennett Coven of 100 witches

Used By: Beatrice Bennett, along with her coven, chanted as one to pull their magic to prevent the destruction of Mystic Falls when Ethan Maxwell rang the corrupted Founders Bell twelve times. Though Beatrice and the community were spared, the rest of her coven wasn't as fortunate as the fires consumed them. In I Was Feeling Epic, Bonnie, alongside the spirits of Sheila, Beatrice, Lucy, Ayana, the Witch of the Five, and other Bennett witches used the second variant spell to save Mystic Falls from destruction as well as to redirect the hellfire back to hell, destroying the dimension in the process.

Combustion Spell: A violent fire spell that ignites an object and rapidly spread in it's immediate, localized vicinity, causing it to explode.

Incantation: Bruciare supe terram, faciendo ignis ga praemium.

Requirements: None

Used By: In God's Gonna Trouble the Water, Hope performed this spell twice to attack a group of vampires that crashed Hayley Marshall's Funeral. The first use of the spell was successful, as she caused a van to instantaneously combust. When she attempted the spell for a second time, however, she was interrupted by Josh who saved her from being attacked by gunfire.

Flower Petal Shower Spell: A simple, yet showy, spell that causes flower petals to erupt from a flower and to fly into the air.

Incantation: Tomar lento. Na paz, amor.

Requirements: Flowers

Used By: In Til the Day I Die, Hope performed this spell after Keelin and Freya were married and asked to kiss the bride. The spell was used for nothing more than show as the wedding ceremony came to a close.

Water Freeze Spell: A spell used to rapidly freeze flowing water on a solid surface or a source of water. Such a spell is capable of killing targets when beings are physically frozen.

Hope's Incantation: Glace, solidatur. Glace, solidatur…

Lizzie's Incantation: Glae Solidature.

Requirements: Flowing water

Used By: In The Tale of Two Wolves, Hope performed this spell on Connor's car while he was at Mystic Falls High School's car wash. Once the water has completely frozen over the front, driver, and passenger's side windows, Hope telekinetically causes the glass to shatter outward. In Do All Malivore Monsters Provide This Level of Emotional Insight?, Lizzie suggested to use this spell to freeze the gremlin right in his tracks, but Hope disagrees. They want to interrogate the monster, and not kill it.

Spark Spell: A spell used to generate a spark of electricity. Variations of this spell can create stronger effects.

Emma and Hope's Incantation: Lecutio.

Josie's Incantation: Lecutio maxima.

Requirements: None

Used By: In We're Gonna Need A Spotlight, Emma performed and augmented the spell with Aximander Dust. She explained that the dust conducts electricity through anything it touches and, with its spread across the auditorium by Landon, a small spark would ripple through the students like chain lightning. With the spark traveling from student to student, the mind-controlling slugs from Malivore were forced from their victims' prefrontal cortex allowing the students to squish them. In Life Was So Much Easier When I Only Cared About Myself, Josie performed a stronger version of this spell while fighting Hope since Lizzie skipped out on her premature Merge Ritual. Hope, however, blocked the majority of the spell with her shield spell but was eventually overpowered by Josie's dark magic. In Someplace Far Away From All This Violence, Hope performed this to attack Dark Josie. The spell was strong enough to create an arc discharge of electricity from Hope's hand, however, Dark Josie responded by directly siphoning the spell as it came into contact with her nullifying any harmful effects.

Luminescence Spell: A spell that conjures a ball of light in the casting witch's hand.

Incantation: Post tenebras spero lucem.

Requirements: None

Used By: In I'll Never Give Up Hope, Hope performed this spell while trapped in Malivore — complete darkness. The spell was lost when a vortex appeared before her, breaking her concentration, and nearly swallowed her whole, though Ryan saved her. In Facing Darkness is Kinda My Thing, Hope, while in Josie's subconsciousness, performed this spell while looking for Josie; however she met "Pig". In You Can't Run From Who You Are, Lizzie performed this spell to demonstrate her abilities to Finch, who was unaware of other supernatural beings. In Follow the Sound of My Voice, Lizzie performs this spell to create a pall of light while searching for Valentina at a carnival of vampires. However, after she finds her corpse, several vampires find and drug her, causing her to fall unconscious.

Freeze Spell: A spell used to rapidly cool down a burning body or object.

Incantation: Glacies corporis

Requirements: Target

Used By: In That's Nothing I Had to Remember, Lizzie siphoned Kaleb to use the Incendia spell to destroy the reanimated jogger. MG reasons with her that they need to trap it so that Malivore cannot send another monster through the portal and that incinerating it defeats the purpose. Lizzie then casts this spell to put the flames out which causes the "zombie" jogger to fall to the floor. In This is Why We Don't Entrust Plans to Muppet Babies, Lizzie attempted to freeze the mora miserium to keep it from breaking, but the spell unfortunately failed. Alaric however, believed that the spell seemed to speed up the process and that despite trying twelve different spells, this is a problem that magic can't fix.

Wind Torrent Spell: A spell used to create a torrent of wind.

Incantation: Ventus

Requirements: None

Used By: In That's Nothing I Had to Remember, Hope used this spell to attack the Croatoan after it escaped from the vines that temporarily ensnared it. In Long Time, No See, Hope had dreamed of entering the prison world to save Landon. However, after her plan fails and Landon begins to choke up black blood upon Malivore's approach, she takes to the offensive. She performed this spell against Malivore, and though she was still dreaming, performed this spell within her bedroom, scaring Cleo awake. In You Can't Run From Who You Are, Josie, coming to terms with her supernatural birthright, reclaimed her magic and performed this spell against Hope to pin her up against the fireplace. Hope had been bitten, infected, and was transforming into a berbalang.

Water Torrent Spell: A spell used to create a torrent of water.

Incantation: Aquam alia.

Requirements: None

Used By: In We All Knew This Day Was Coming, Hope performed this spell to attack the Cherufe. Initially, the water caused the magma veins to extinguish, it proved otherwise ineffective as the monster reignited.

Lightning Spell: A spell to create localized lightning strikes.

Incantation: Fiate fulguris.

Requirements: None

Used By: In You're A Long Way From Home, MG and Josie watch over the training course as Kaleb, Jed, Wade and Ethan attempt to work together to take out the training dummy Hope. Josie casts this spell to create small bursts of lightning, striking randomly. This magically created lightning, however, is much weaker than natural lighting as when it struck Wade and Jed, they were relatively unfazed while other random strikes hit the ground and hay bales.