List of Spells

A compiled list of spells used in Carry On, Wayward Son, and Any Way the Wind Blows. In most editions of the text, spells are shown in bold when they are being spoken about in either prose or dialogue but not cast, and bold-italics when they are being cast, e.g

* **Candle in the wind** is a dangerous spell. (chapter 3)
* "***Make a wish!***" he shouts, and his voice is like thunder. (chapter 61)

A

* **A horse of a different color**: Presumably changes the color of something, (only attempt failed when Penny used it on Simon in AWTWB)
* **A little bird told me**: Sends someone a message through a bird
* **A penny for your thoughts**: Used to pay for almost anything online (Penny believes it works so well because of her name)
* **A penny saved is a penny earned**: Duplicates money (American spell)
* **A pig in mud**: Makes someone happy (mentioned by Baz in Chapter 14 of WS)
* **A Place for Everything and Everything in Its Place**: Puts items back in their spots.
* **An Englishman's word is his bond**: Oath spell
* **And we all fall down!**: Can reverse the *up, up, and away* spell. Originates from the nursery rhyme "Ring a Ring o' Roses", also known as "Ring Around the Rosie".
* **April showers**: Brings wilting flowers back to life
* **Amazing Grace**: Used to summon lost things. Originates from a Christian hymn of the same name.
* **Ashes to ashes, dust to dust**: Dissolves objects into soot. Originates from a phrase from the Anglican Book of Common Prayer burial service.
* **As You Were**: Causes things or people to change back into what they were previously

B

* **Back to start**: Dangerous reversal spell
* **Back off**: Makes attackers back off
* **Belt up**: Makes someone sit down, shut up, and buckle their seat belt (possibly some combination as appropriate)
* **Be our guest**: Makes someone their guest to their home and protects them from the host harming them. Originates from the song of the same name from the Disney animated film *Beauty and the Beasy*.
* **Bend over backwards**: Causes the victim to bend backwards to the floor
* **Bugger off**: Pushes the victim back a few feet
* **Burn, baby, burn**: Causes fire
* **Buzz off**: Pushes the victim back a few feet (effective in America)

C

* **Candle in the wind**: Gives more sexual stamina, but if pronounced wrong can create an inextinguishable fire
* **Cat Got Your Tongue**: Makes a person lose ability to speak.
* **Clean as a Whistle**: Makes visible dirt/grime disappear. Applied to a person, it can make them feel metallic like a whistle
* **Clear the air**: Erases the words in the air created by the *see what I mean* spell
* **Come out, come out, wherever you are**: Revealing spell. Originates from a phrase commonly spoken in children's hiding games such as Hide-and-Seek.
* **Come home to roost**: Attracts birds
* **Cushion the blow**: Causes something to become soft
* **Crash and burn**: Causes fire to shoot towards something
* **Cross your heart, and hope to die**: Causes the victim to keep their promises or they'll drop dead (assuming Baz isn't lying to Shepard). Originates from a Christian ritual that gave rise to the phrase.

D

* **Dead in the Air**: Stops things that are flying, may kill them
* **Death by chocolate**: Causes a giant chocolate bar to appear above the caster’s head
* **Doe, a deer**: Summons a deer to the caster. Originates from the song "Do-Re-Mi" from the musical film *The Sound of Music*.
* **Don’t worry, be happy**: A spell used to calm down the target (used by Ebb to calm down Nicodemus when the two would fight, along with *hush little baby*). Originates from the song of the same name by Bobby McFerrin.
* **Down, boy**: Once used by Niamh on a hellhound, the dog hopped down from a table
* **Dust up**: Presumably dust something off
* **Dutch courage**: Can fill an empty glass with an alcoholic drink

E

* **Early to Bed and Early to Rise**: Healing spell.
* **Easy come, easy go. Little high, little low. Carry on, carry on**: Possibly used to revive someone
* **Et tu, Brute**: Effect unclear, used on betrayers. Originates from the play *Julius Caesar* by William Shakespeare.
* **Every time a bell rings an angel gets its wings**: Unclear effect. Possibly could be used to give someone wings. Paired with *I put my thing down, flip it and reverse it* (possible generic reversal spell). Invented by Penelope Bunce. Originates from a phrase spoken by Zuzu Bailey in the film *It's a Wonderful Life*.

F

* **Fair enough**: Pays for a cab, or perhaps any kind of, fare
* **Find your way home**: When cast on an object belonging to someone, it leads the caster to them
* **Fine-tooth Comb**: Used to search through text for a specific word or phrase in mind
* **Fire burn and cauldron bubble!**: Creates fire (Agatha uses it to light a cigarette. It's one of the few spells she can cast without a wand). Originates from a line spoken by the Three Witches in William Shakespeare's *Macbeth*.
* **Float like a butterfly**: Causes the user to float
* **Free at last**: Presumably frees the user from one's constraints (mentioned only in Chapter 42 of WS)
* **Freeze**: Causes the victim to stop (effect unclear, unsuccessful spell)
* **Fuck off**: Possibly pushes the victim back a few feet, but "the magickal effect of swear words in unpredictable; it depends entirely on the audience"
	+ **Fuck off and die**: Causes the victim to (presumably) go away and die

G

* **Gentlemen start your engines**: Starts a car without the keys
* **Get lost**: Causes the victim to leave
* **Get Well Soon**: Healing spell
* **Get your goat**: Exact uses unknown, but it presumably draws goats towards the caster (Niamh used it on a Watford goat to no avail)
* **A glass and a half**: Fills a bottle with milk, a child's spell
* **Good as new**: Healing spell
* **Guts for garters**: Unclear effect, a fighting spell

H

* **Hair of the dog**: Hangover cure, but when cast incorrectly can cause the target to grow hair across their body
* **Have a Break, Have a Kit-Kat**: Causes things to break and crumble, possibly invented by Nicodemus Petty. Originates from the advertisement slogan of the Kit Kat chocolate bar.
* **Head Over Heels**: Possible tripping spell, used by Ebb against the Mage along with *hit the floor*
* **Hear ye, hear ye**: Causes the caster’s voice to carry over longer distances
* **Heel**: Used on a dog, can force the dog to follow the caster
* **Hell hath no fury**: Creates fire from the user's chosen weapon. Originates from an interpretation of a differently worded line from *The Mourning Bride* by William Congreve.
* **Helter Skelter**: Makes the room go mad
* **Here, kitty-kitty**: Attracts cats
* **Hey, you've got to hide your love away**: Presumably a protective spell to use on someone you love (used by Lady Ruth to protect Lucy). Originates from the song of the same name by The Beatles.
* **Hit the Floor**: Possible tripping spell, used by Ebb against the Mage along with *head over heels*
* **Hold fast**: Possibly used to calm victim down or keep them in the same emotional state
* **Hurry up**: Used to make things go faster
* **Hush little baby**: Used to calm the target down (used by Ebb to calm down Nicodemus when the two would fight, along with *Don’t Worry, Be Happy*). Originates from a lullaby of the same name.

I

* **If you love someone, set them free**: Exact incantation unknown, it presumably frees someone you love from being trapped (Fiona used it to free Baz's shoelace from an escalator when he was six)
* **Into Thin Air**: Causes something to disappear
* **I put my thing down, flip it and reverse it**: Possible generic reversal spell when paired with another phrase, invented by Penelope Bunce. Originates from the song "Work It" by Missy Elliott.
* **Is this a dagger which I see before me?**: Physically reveals weapons held by the target. Originates from a phrase spoken in William Shakespeare's *Macbeth*.
* **It's show time**: Revealing spell
* **Ix-nay on the atford-Way**: Used to prevent a person from talking about the World of Mages to Normals. Based on Pig Latin.

J

* **Just a tick**: Used by Niamh on a hellhound, presumably to take care of a tick
* **Join the club**: Convinces outsiders to join the crowd (Agatha used it to get one of the Watford goats to join the herd)

K

* **Keep it together**: Similar to *hold fast*
* **Keep it secret, keep it safe**: Presumably a protective spell to use on someone (Lady Ruth used it to try and protect Lucy from The Mage). Originates from a phrase spoken by Gandalf in the film *The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring.*
* **Keep schutum**: Makes something quiet
* **Kindred spirits**: Contacting spirits to help with a seance
* **Kiss it better**: A healing spell used in families, requires the caster to kiss the person they're healing
* **K.O.**: Knocks a person unconscious

L

* **Ladybird, Ladybird, Fly Away Home**: A common spell to drive off household pests, used as a full nursery rhyme by Baz to drive off a dragon. Originates from a nursery rhyme.
* **Light of day**: Creates light from the casters magical object
* **Let bygones be bygones**: Presumably used to erase someone's memory of something or someone (Mitali Bunce used it on Shepard to no avail as he had become resistant to memory spells because of his curse in AWTWB)
* **Let it all out**: Brings all a magician’s magic in an easily accessible place. Used on weaker magicians, they briefly experience great power before using up all of their magic.
* **Let there be light**: Lights the room. Originates from the English translation of a phrase in the Torah.
* **Let me, let me, let me**: Used with *Please! Please! Please!* by the Mage, presumably to amplify a previous spell
* **Liar, liar, pants on fire**: Causes a liar’s pants to burn
* **Light as a feather**: Makes the object or person the caster used the spell on light as a feather
* **Light of day**: Causes light
* **Like a glove**: Makes clothes fit perfectly
* **Lost and found**: Summons objects to the caster by way of flight (referenced by Penny in Chapter 32 of WS)

M

* **Make a Wish!**: Extinguishes fire.
* **Make Way (For the King)**: Causes objects or people in front of user to move out of their way
* **Mary had a little lamb**: Causes animals to follow caster when the entire song is sung. Originates from a nursery rhyme.
* **Mum's the word, mum's the word**: Exact use known, presumably a protective spell (used by Lady Ruth to protect Lucy)

N

* **Naff off**: Pushes the victim back a few feet
* **Nonsense**: Can be used to reverse something magickal
* **No trespassing**: Used to remove something from where it should not belong. Presumably could make a person leave an area (Mitali Bunce used it to remove a splinter from her son Pip's hand)
* **Now you see it, now you don’t**: Used to make something invisible

O

* **Off with your head**: Decapitates victim. Originates from the Queen of Heart's catchphrase in Lewis Carroll's *Alice's Adventures in Wonderland*.
* **Olly olly oxen free**: Revealing spell. Originates from a truce term in various children's games.
* **On love's light wings**: Makes the user float. Only works if the user understands the Great Vowel Shift of the Sixteenth Century and is stupidly in love.
* **Open Sesame**: Opens doors
* **Out, Out, damned spot**: Cleaning spell, used to remove blood - also used unsuccessfully to try and remove Shepard's curse markings. Originates from a line spoken by Lady Macbeth in the sleepwalking scene of William Shakespeare's *Macbeth*.

P

* **Paper Beats Rock**: Stops numpties if they are covered with newspaper (possibly invented by Nicodemus Petty). Originates from the rules of the game rock paper scissors.
* **Push off**: Pushes the victim back a few feet
* **Put it out of your head**: Memory erasing spell (dangerous to use because it can potentially affect the person's brain, Penny describes it as "shaking up an Etch A Sketch inside someone's brain")

R

* **Resistance is futile**: Possibly makes victim stop resisting. Originates from a phrase spoken by the Borg in the television series *Star Trek*.
* **Rise and shine**: Wakes someone up from sleeping, even a magickally induced sleep from the spell "Rock-a-bye, baby".
* **Rock-a-bye, baby**: Causes a person to fall asleep. Originates from a nursery rhyme.
* **Rosie Lee**: Brews/creates tea without a kettle
* **Roses are red**: Turns objects pink. Originates from a love poem and children's rhyme.
* **Run for your life**: Makes the victim run away

S

* **Safe as houses**: used to keep objects from breaking, protection spell
* **Scooby-Dooby-Doo, where are you**: Revealing spell. Originates from the theme song of the cartoon *Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!*, sung by Austin Roberts.
* **See what I mean**: Causes the castor to write in the air with their finger
* **Sent to Coventry**: Used to move objects (once used by Penny to move a moving car)
* **Shipshape and Bristol fashion**: Puts a vehicle back in good and seamen like order
* **Simon says!**: Used by Penny to give Simon magick (?) after he gave his to the Humdrum. Originates from the children's game of the same name.
* **Sod off**: Pushes the victim back a few feet
* **Some Like it Hot!**: Heats up objects
* **Sparks fly**: Creates sparks from the casters magickal object.
* **Stand your ground**: Causes the victim to be glued to the ground
* **Stay**: Causes someone or something to stay put
* **Stay Cool**: Causes the victim to calm down/remain calm
* **Stay the Course**: Causes the victim to drive/move straight
* **Steady on!**: Similar to *Hold fast*, used to calm down the victim
* **Steel yourself**: Creates/summons a sword
* **Sticking Point**: Causes something to stick to something else
* **Sticks and stones**: Unknown effect (mentioned only in Chapter 41 of WS)
* **Suck it up!**: Another spell to calm down the victim
* **Swords into ploughshares**: Turns weapons into 'ploughshares' (scythes). Originates from a phrase in the Book of Isaiah in the Hebrew Bible.

T

* **Take it away:** Not specified, but assumed to make things disappear. Simon attempts to use this spell to clean up after killing a goblin, but it doesn't work.
* **Test the waters**: Causes a stream of water to appear
* **That doesn't ring a bell**: Causes the victim to forget a specific incident
* **The beat goes on**: Used to strengthen a weak heart and keep a living thing from dying
* **The Lady's not for Turning**: Combat spell, useful especially for women, prevents the victim from betraying the caster, invented by Mitali Bunce. Originates from a phrase said by Margaret Thatcher in a speech to the Conservative Party Conference.
* **The Truth, The Whole Truth, and Nothing But the Truth**: A truth-telling spell. Originates from sworn testimonies in courts of law.
* **These aren't the droids you're looking for**: Makes the object invisible. Originates from the film *Star Wars: A New Hope*.
* **These go to eleven**: Makes something such as music sound louder than was previously possible. Originates from a phrase the film *This is Spinal Tap*.
* **There's Nothing to See Here**: Diverts nearby people's attentions away from user.
* **There’s safety in numbers**: Presumably used to keep animals (or people) together in a group (the one time this spell is used it is unsuccessful)
* **There will be blood**: Draws blood from the victim
* **Through a glass, darkly**: Makes an object harder to see (on cameras?). Originates from a phrase in the New Testament of The Bible.
* **Tickled pink**: Can turn things pink
* **Tidy up!**: Tidies up appearance (Baz casts it on himself, unclear if it would work on a messy room)
* **Time Flies**: Causes time to pass, but only works if users are having fun.
* **True colours**: Reveals the victim's true intentions by causing them to glow different colours. Blue is safe, red is danger, but purple is the most common outcome - "almost everyone wants something from you."
* **Tyger, tyger burning bright**: Immolating spell, makes the user and their attacker go up in flames. Originates from the poem "The Tyger" by William Blake.

U

* **U Can't Touch This!**: Barrier spell, won't work unless the victim knows the song. Originates from the song of the same name by MC Hammer.
* **Unnamed Possession Spell:** Allows caster to possess another living creature and speak through them. Penelope uses this spell twice: once to speak to Simon through "the old man down at the shop" and once to speak to Baz through a dog
* **Up, Up, and Away!**: Causes objects or people to hover, not intended for use on humans. Seemingly originates from early radio shows based on the comic book character Superman.

V

* **Violets are blue**: Turns objects blue

W

* **What a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive!**: Causes a web to come out a victim, presumably only works if victim has been lying. Originates from the epic poem *Marmion* by Sir Walter Scott.
* **Winter, spring, summer or fall** (insert person's name): When said with the caster's magickal object over a picture of the person they are looking for (or presumably something belonging to them), the magickal object will lead the caster to the person. Originates from the song "You've Got a Friend" by James Taylor.
* **Without a trace**: Cast on mobile/cell phones to prevent a call from being tracked

Y

* **Yeet**: Used to bring down a classroom wall
* **Your Attention Please!**: Focuses the attention of people close to the user to the user.
* **You're getting warmer**: Warming spell, similar to *some like it hot*

## Unofficial Spells

* Simon Snow would occasionally have magic spill into normal phrases and have them work like spells.
	+ Twinkle Twinkle Little Star - Basil Pitch says the words of this nursery rhyme and stars appear, but he doesn't know whether it's a spell or not. It could be another use of Simon's power.
* Penelope Bunce tries unsuccessfully to make "The Game is Afoot" (originating from both the works of William Shakespeare and Arthur Conan Doyle) into a spell for her eighth year project. Simon's attempt is "It is What it is".

## Helper Words

Spells can be given extra power ("extra zing") by adding adverbs or other helper words to a normal spell.

* **Kindly**: *Kindly buzz off*
* **Please**: Add to another spell to make it stronger

## References

1. ↑ *Carry On* (hardcover), Chapter 3, Page 24
2. ↑ *Carry On* (hardcover), Chapter 2, Page 14