Witchery

**Witchery**, also known as **Witchcraft**, is the art of using magic with nature and energy. It has been around for many years and is often practiced by witches. This includes all the female members of the Vanissen family, and even Aster.

## Types of witchery

### Good Witchery

This is witchery used by good witches, including the Vanissen family. This witchery allows the witch to commune with nature, the elements, and even spirits. It can also be used scry, heal, predict the future, and to transport. This witchery also sometimes relies on certain conditions like the phases of the moon or the time of day.

#### Communing with nature

Using good witchery, a witch can have conversation with nature, including vegetation and animals. With vegetation, a witch have it doing whatever they wish for by calling the vegetation by addressing it with its preferred name, this includes growing fruit in little time (like apples or barries) or controlling vines.

#### Elements

Using good witchery, a witch can have power over the elements, such as fire, water, earth, air, and energy. Vervain, Holly, and Aster are shown to do these things.

#### Scrying

Scrying allows a witch to see and find whatever they wish for. The most well known way of scrying is to use silver bowl full of water and stir as you say the name of what is to be found under the sign of the moon. This can also be done with other containers as shown when Aster tried to find his cousin, Sedge, after he was taken by Mikasi, but with disastrous results.

#### Healing

A witch can heal themselves and others, mainly using runes drawn on the wounds and using certain other things like candles and herbs. It can also be used to heal wounds caused by supernatural means as shown when Aster healed Charlie after she was attacked by a Fetch.

#### Potion Making

It is shown that a witch can make potions. In *The Witch Boy*, Juniper was shown making a potion to bind whatever was taking her male cousins (later revealed to be Makasi).

#### Binding

A witch can use good witchery to bind demons, monsters, dark spirits, or whatever other harmful creature or person by putting them in or behind a binding circle of ruins and the captive being or person's name.

#### Fortune Telling

It was mentioned by Iris that a witch can predict the future.

### Dark Witchery

This kind of witchery is used to harm others. The most well known users of dark witchery are Ariel's maternal relatives.

#### Fetch

A Fetch is a living shadow that a witch can use to attack others. But after a while, the Fetch will turn on the witch are harm them as well.

#### Forced Shapeshifting

A witch can use witchery to give themselves shapeshifting abilities, but in twisted form that can corrupts the witch's powers and being. The most well known example of this is Mikasi who used witchery to shift, but was turned into a monster.

## Known users of witchery

* Aster Vanissen
* Holly Vanissen
* Grandmother
* Juniper Vanissen
* Vervain Vanissen
* Jessamine Vanissen
* Iris Vanissen
* Jade Vanissen
* Junpier Vanissen
* Hazel Vanissen
* Persimmon Vanissen
* Ivy Vanissen
* Lyra Vanissen
* Makasi Vanissen (formally, now deceased)
* Ariel Torres
* Ariel's Aunt