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To: alt.magick.tyagi,alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer,alt.magick,alt.witchcraft,alt.religion.wicca,alt.paranormal.spells.hexes.magic
From: nagasiva 
Subject: Willow's Magic, Power, and Satanism (was Infinite Power)
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 02:09:50 GMT

50020610 VII (contains plotline information about Buffy the Vamp Slayer)

luckyhoodoo92@aol.com (LuckyHoodoo92):
> dunno.  Faeries i guess.  It wasn't vital to the plot.

unfortunately typical. I'll watch for clues.

>> what did the spell include, exactly? how was it constructed?
>> how was it 'undone'?

> Go Here:  http://lavender.fortunecity.com/rampling/271/index.html
> then go to "Willow's Witchcraft Haven" for a copy of the Spell.  

I found the Haven at:

	http://lavender.fortunecity.com/rampling/271/witchcraft.html

and this was its text (uncopyrighted, reproduced here for archival):

Welcome to Willow's Witchcraft Haven. In this section, you'll be able 
to read up on some of the spells that Willow and other members of the 
cast have chanted. This is all according to buffyverse of course with 
a little relation to real life. All *italicized* [...] words and 
sentences are what you are supposed to say aloud. Please take into 
accord that this is just for FUN.


How To Detect A Witch

     You'll need: 
		some of the witch's hair, 
		a little quicksilver, 
		some aquafortis (mercury & nitric acid) 
	and     eye of newt.

     Instructions: Heat ingredients together and apply to witch's skin.

            Notes: If the witch has cast a spell in the previous 48 
		hours their skin will turn blue.


Blinding Spell
     You'll need: 
		a doll that slightly resembles the person you 
		are casting the spell on, a cauldron of brewing 
		water, a piece of material.

     Instructions: 
		*Give me the power.*
		*Give me the dark.*
		*I call on you, the laughing gods.*
		*Let your blackness crawl beneath my skin.*

          Cover the doll's eyes with the piece of material.

		*Accept thy sacrifice of (name of [target] person...).*
		*Feed on her.*

          Drop the doll into the boiling water.

     Notes: The spell takes 6 hours to work at the very least.

     Variations: If you wish to seal someone's mouth closed 
	         instead, simply cover the doll's mouth instead 
		 of the eyes. The same chant is sufficient.


To Reverse All Spells From A Witch

     You'll need: 
		eye of newt, 
		boiling water in a cauldron or pot, 
		a personal object of the witch's

     Instructions: Mix all the incredients together in the pot 
		and bring to a boil. 

		*The center is dark. Centrum est obscurus.*
		*The darkness breathes. Tenebrae respiratis.*
		*The listerner hears! Hear me!*
			*Unlock the gate.Let the darkness shine.*
		*Cover us with holy fear. Show me! Corsheth and Gilail!*
			*The gate is closed!*
		*Receive the dark! Release the unworthy! 
			*Take of mine energy and be sated!*

	Plunge your hands into the boiling water.

		*Be sated! Release the unworthy!*
			*Release! Release! Release!*

     Notes: The spell works immediately after being chanted. 
		Make sure you say the last release powerfully.


Banishing Someone To An Inanimite Object

     You'll need: your voice

     Instructions:
		*I shall look upon my enemy.*
		*I shall look upon her and the dark place*
			*will have her soul!*
		*Corsheth, take her!*
  

Banishing Moloch the Corruptor to a Book

     You'll need: your voice, large empty book

     Instructions: 
          Open the book.
		*Per potere di questo circolo di Kayless.*
	        *Per potere di questo circolo di Kayless, ti commando.*
		*Vieni! Ti commando! Vieni!*
		*VIENI! Vieni, demonio! Vieni!

        Translation: 
		By the power of the circle of Kayless. 
		By the power of the circle of Kayless, I command you. 
		Come! I command you! Come!
                COME! Come, demon! Come!

     Notes: The form of the demon will become words in your book. 
		If this book is read in any way, shape or form, 
		the demon Moloch will be released again.
  
                        
Summoning Janus

     You'll need: 
		a sharp blade, 
		a statue of Janus 
			(male on one side and female on the other)

     Instructions: 
          The day before you want the curse to work: 
          Cut a small cut in the palm of your hand. 
	  And pray this in front of the statue:
		*The world that denies thee, thou inhabit.* 
		*The peace that ignores thee, thou corrupt.*
       
          Dab your finger in the blood in your hand and smear 
		it tover your eyelid.

		*I remain, as ever, thy faithful degenerate son.*

	  The day of (in front of the statue): 
		*Janus, evoco vestram animam.
                *Exaudi meam causam. Carpe noctem pro consilio vestro. 
		*Veni, appare et nobis monstra quod est infinita potestas.*
		*Persona se corpum et sanguim commutandum est. 
		*Vestra sancta praesentia concrescet viscera. 
		*Janus! Summe noctem!

	   Translation: 
		Janus, I invoke your spirit. Hear my pleas. 
		Seize the night for you own reason. 
		Come, appear and show to us that which is infite power.
		The mask transforms itself into flesh and blood. 
		Your holy presence curdles the heart. 
		Janus! Take the night!

     Notes: The person who did this used the costumes in his shop to
		transform people into the actual costumes. No one is 
		quite sure how else this spell could be used.
  
                        
To Restore A [Sick] Vampire To Full Health

     You'll need: 
		a DuLac cross...,
		an incense censer, 
		the vampire and 
		the vampire's sire 

     Instructions: 
          Tie the hands of the vampire and vampire's sire 
	  together, light the incense in the censer and wave 
	  it around as you chant:
		*Eligor. I name thee. Bringer of war, poisoners,*
			*pariahs, grand obscenity.*
		*Eligor, wretched master of decay, bring your black*
                       *medicine.*

          Pick up the DuLac cross and pull the blade out from it.

		*Come. Restore your most impious, murderous child. 
		*From the blood of the sire, she shall rise again.

          Stab the blade through the clasped hands of the vampire 
		and the vampire's sire.

     Notes: This will kill the vampire's sire. You must wait until 
		the vampire's sire is dead for this to work properly 
		other there will be some serious problems with the 
		vampire, though there has been a legend that one 
		couple did this and the vampire's sire remained alive.
  
                        
To Revoke The Invitation of a Vampire into a Home

     You'll need: 
		a cross, hammer, 
		a nail 

     Instructions:
          Nail the cross to the door through which the vampire 
	  was invited through. Chant this:
         	*Hicce verbis consensus rescissus est.*

          Translation: 
		By these strong unanimous words 
		 [vampire's permission to enter] is rescinded.


To Restore A Vampire's Soul

     You'll need: 
		an Orb of Thesulah, 
		some incense or herbs,
		matches, 
		some stones, 
		four candles 
	    and some animal bones.

     Instructions: 
          Set up a sacred circle in front of you exactly as depicted 
          in the picture on the left [you can find the pic at:

	http://lavender.fortunecity.com/rampling/271/orb1.jpg ]

     Light the herbs or incense as well as the candles and chant the 
     following:
		*Quod perditum est, invenietur.*
		*Not dead nor not of the living.*
		*Spirits of the interregnum I call.*
		*Let him know the pain of humanity, gods.*
		*Reach your wizened hands to me.*
		*Give me the sword. Gods, bind him.*
		*Cast his heart from the evil realm.*
		*I call on you gods.*
		*Te implor, Doamne, nu ignora aceasta rugaminte.*
		*Nici mort, nici de-al fiintei,*
		*Te invoc, spirit al trecerii.*
		*Reda trupului ce separa omul de animal!*
		*Nici mort, nici al fiintei.*
		*Lasa orbita sa fie vasul care-i va transporta,*
			*sufletul la el.*
		*Utrespur aceastui. Asa sa fie! Asa sa fie! Acum!*

          Translation: 
		What is lost, return.
		Not dead nor not of the living.
		Spirits of the interregnum I call.
		Let him know the pain of humanity, gods.
		Reach your wizened hands to me.
		Give me the sword. Gods, bind him.
		Cast his heart from the evil realm.
		I call on you gods.
		I implore you, Lord, do not ignore this request.
		Neither dead, nor of the living, 
		I invoke you, spirit of the passing. 
		Return to the body what distinguishes 
			Man from the beast!
		Neither dead, nor of the living.
		Let this Orb be the vessel that will 
			carry his soul to him.
		Restore this one. So it shall be! So it shall be! Now!
  

To Have Your Will Be Done

     You'll need: 
		22 tall red candles, 
		a bowl, 
		a goblet, 
		incense,
		herbs. (details were sketchy on this one)

     Instructions: 
          Arrange the candles up in a circle and light them. 
          Light the incense and sit in the center of the circle.
          Chant:
		*Harken all ye elements, I summon thee now.*
		*Control the outside, control within.*
		*Land and sea, fire and wind.*
		*Out of my passions, a web be spun.*
		*From this eve forth, my will be done.*
		*So mote it be.*

          Pour the contents of the goblet into the bowl.

The next day, anything you say will happen.
  
 
To Undo The "Will Be Done" Spell

     You'll need: Your voice

     Instructions: 
          Chant:
		*Let the healing power begin.*
		*Let my will be safe again.*
		*As these words of peace are spoken,*
			let this harmful spell be broken.*
  
 
To Invoke the First Slayer (and call upon the power of your friends)

     You'll need: 
		4 white candles, 
		tarot cards (the ones of spirit, heart, mind and hand)

     Instructions: 
          Arrange the candles in a (sorta) circle and light them. 
	  Turn the cards over in front of the appropriate person
          and say the following: 
		*Spirtus...spirits. Animus...heart.
		*Sophus...mind. Manus...hand. 
		*We enjoin that we may inhabit the vessel. 
		*The hand, daughter of Sineya, first of the Ones. 
		*We implore thee. Admit us. 
		*Bring us to the vessel. Take us . . . now! 

text presumed copyright of the author, uncited (script-writers?).

>>> Moral of the story:  With infinite power comes infinite 
>>> responsiblity.
>>
>> we don't need no stinking morals. 
>
> Hey, now! The pre-teen fans sure do!

I was talking about the alt.magick crowd. ;>

> I think they formed a bond after Willow successfuly brought 
> Buffy back from the dead by calling on him with the aid of 
> "the urn of Osiris" wich was conviently destroyed afterwards.  
> I'm sure he left her his card, or at the very least phone # 
> and extension. 

a powerful ally.

re: Willow's power:
>> where did she get this power? did they call them 'black magic
>> books' or was it something particular to power or antagonism?

> 1.  She has displayed telekentic powers for many episodes now.  
> I am not aware of any "origin-mythos" surrounding this but I 
> am sure she is kin to Carrie White.
>
> 2.  Willow asks Anya, after storming in of course and fucking 
> up the lights, where she keeps the Black magic books.  I'm 
> thinking "Right Willow, like this is the first time you been 
> in here"

maybe she kept herself away from 'The Dark Side' for purification.

>> A satanic pentagram 
>>> ends up going to her forhead and turns
>>> her eyes and hair pitch black....
>>
>>point-down pentagram => without morality? 
>>or is the killing 'mere vengeance' and therefore 'satanic'?
>
> It was the point down with goat head and all, variety.

perhaps 'The Baphomet' of CoSatanists. going for power is Satanic.

>> but why can Willow do these things when so many others in the world
>> cannot? 
>
> Because we live in the universe while the scoobies inhabit 
> the buffy-verse.

sounds like an internal descriptor. I'm not familiar with the
term "scoobies" (spin-off from Scooby-Doo?) and can kinda guess
what a buffy-verse is (the arena for the Buffy-v-Slayer stories,
in a cosmic sense; compare comic books or other internally-
coherent Multi-User Dimensions).

> She sort of explains this herself actualy.  She speaks about herself 
> in the third person and talks about how "Willow was a loser" and how 
> she had been the [butt] of jokes and how everyone walked over her and 
> expected her to play the role of the nerdy side kick until she found 
> the one gift that she had a nack for...and then her friends tried to 
> get her to stop practicing magic because they claimed she was 
> becoming "addicted" to it.

this attempted parallel between magic and deleterious psychoactives 
is questionable to put it mildly.
 
> Also, Willow's former Magic-Pimp/Dealer says that she is running 
> on pure fury and grief over the loss of the only person she loved.

did they ever have some kind of instructor-student relationship?
did Willow buy into everything the Pimp/Dealer said?

nagasiva