This is a list of all known spells seen in The Magicians series.
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
A[]
Age Suspension Spell[]
- Description: A spell used to halt the aging of its target. The spell was used by Martin Chatwin on Christopher Plover in order to torture Plover everyday for the next 60 years.[1] A similar spell was cast on Cancer Puppy, keeping him a puppy for a hundred and fifty years.[2]
Al-Elseewi's Heat Reduction[]
- Description: A spell used to reduce heat taught to First Year students at Brakebills University.[3]
Alonso's Reverse Thermogenesis[]
- Description: A spell used by Julia Wicker to freeze and preserve Marina Andrieski's body.[4]
Anasazi Vision Spell[]
- Description: A spell used by the Anasazi people to reveal something invisible. It is similar to the Mann Reveal.[5]
Anti-Traveling Spell[]
A Prayer to Xiuhtecuhtli[]
- Description: A Second-year fire spell taught at Brakebills University.[7] The spell was performed by Sophie Carlson in the Proving Ground, but Carlson lost control and was burned to death by the fire.[3]
Arm-Reattachment Spell[]
- Description: A spell used to reattach a severed limb. Kady Orloff-Diaz used the spell to reattach the arm of Lee, a Hedge Witch, after an unsuccessful attempt to remove his Reed's Mark caused his arm to be blown off.[6]
Atsuko's Spectral Refraction[]
- Description: A spell taught to second-year students at Brakebills University. The spell was performed by Julia Wicker in an alternate timeline while being tested for her Discipline by Henry Fogg, causing the examination room to illuminate with a bright white glow when connected to another spell.[8]
B[]
Bjorn's Electromagnetic[]
- Description: A spell used by Alice Quinn to combine the separate forms of Harriet Schiff after her time in the Mirror Realm caused her to become refracted into three different individuals.[9]
Bujold's Sorcerous Nail Extraction[]
- Description: This is the opposite to the Hammer Charm of Legrand. Instead of hammering a nail through a surface this spell extracts it.[10]
C[]
Cavaleri Animation[]
- Description: A spell that gifts small inanimate objects with a facsimile of life.[11]
Chkhartishvili's Enveloping Warmth[]
- Description: This spell generates internal warmth within the body to ensure survival in extremely cold environments.
Cholmondeley's Stealth[]
- Description: A spell used by Penny to sneak past the doorman at the penthouse apartment owned by Quentin Coldwater, Eliot Waugh, Janet Pluchinsky, and Alice Quinn.[11]
Coptic Illusion Spell[]
- Type: Illusions
- Description: Emily Greenstreet used this spell on both herself and Quentin Coldwater to manifest the illusion of Alice Quinn and Mayakovsky, respectively. Though she noted it a 'party trick', the illusion spell only works while the skin is wet, and can be used to take the appearance of whomever the other person longs to see the most, or presumably, anyone they wish.[12]
Czechoslovakian Unlocking Charm[]
- Description: A spell Marina Andrieski taught to Julia Wicker at her Hedge Witch safehouse. The spell is comprised of an unlocking gesture with the fingers and is accompanied by the incantation "Odemknout", forcing any iron or mechanical lock open.[13]
D[]
Daniel Quinn's Purge Protocol[]
- Type: Ward
- Description: A ward designed by Daniel Quinn to protect his family and seal his house from outside threats.[14]
Declan's Accuracy Spell[]
- Type: Enchantment
- Description: A spell used to enchant an arrow to fly straight when fired.
Dempsey's Silent Thermogenesis[]
- Description: This is a spell that enforces a phase change in a matter by heating molecules past their boiling point.[11]
Dixon's Charm[]
- Description: A freezing charm used by Eliot Waugh on an assassin in Castle Whitespire.[5]
E[]
Emotion-Suppression Spell[]
- Description: A spell that suppressed the emotions of a caster by holding them in a small container. This spell was used by Quentin and his friends to bypass the discipline required of casting Battle Magic in their preparation for their journey to Fillory.
Estonian Filigree[]
- Description: An Estonian Filigree is a spell taught to First Year students at Brakebills University.[3]
F[]
Fergus' Spectral Armory[]
- Description: A spell that summons a silvery, phantasmal armor to protect the caster from harm.[11]
Fergus' A Whole Lot of Other Really Useful Combat Spells[]
- Description: The name given to an assortment of Fergus spells used by Eliot Waugh in his duel against Vile Father. Together, they increase the caster's strength, reflexes, and perception of time several times over.
First Flash[]
- Description: A level one Hedge Witch spell that causes a quick burst of light to appear between the caster's fingers. Its command is Işik. [5][15]
Force Push[]
- Description: A Battle Magic spell used by Kady Orloff-Diaz against The Beast during the Attack on Brakebills University.[16] The spell was later used by Quentin Coldwater against Penny Adiyodi, but its effect was rebounded against Coldwater due to Adiyodi's use of the Emerson's Alloy Repellant.[17]
G[]
Golem Creation Spell[]
- Description: A spell used by Lasaro, a jealous ex-boyfriend of Margo Hanson. Using a rare substance called 'Living Clay', a magician can create an exact flesh-replica of a person, known as their Golem. The process is complicated, and if done inefficiently, can cause the actual person whom the Golem resembles to become weak and unstable, as the spell draws from the subject's life force to shape the clay.
H[]
Hammer Charm of Legrand[]
- Description: The Hammer Charm of Legrand is a standard teaching charm that ensures a nail is hammered into a surface in a single smooth strike.
Harris' Transmogrification[]
- Description: A powerful charm created by a student in Original Spell-Crafting at Brakebills University.[18]
Harper's Fire Shaping[]
- Description: A spell considered to be useless, as its only purpose is to shape flames into patterns in the air with an aspen twig.[11]
I[]
Incorporate Bond[]
- Description: A spell that locks an object with a four-dimensional point rendering it almost impossible to move.
Indian Night Vision Charm[]
- Description: A Hindi charm used to enhance the caster's vision in the dark.
Invisible Fire Spell[]
- Description: A Hedge Witch spell found online by Julia Wicker intended to conjure an invisible flame along the caster's fingertips. The spell uses oils, herbs, granulated rock, and ash as a material element, followed by casting over a circle to produce the effect. When Wicker attempted the spell, she accidentally burned her hands before calling Pete to help her with the injury.[2]
L[]
Love Charm[]
- Description: A powerful spell cast by Eleanor Lipson on an entire city park, causing everyone in it and anyone who entered it to become overwhelmed with strong sexual desires and engage in a mass orgy.
Lucier's Cleaning Charm[]
- Description: A charm used to clean a room or a place. As mentioned by Henry Fogg, rose water is used in that charm. Julia cast that charm in a dining room of Brakebills after the Massacre of the McAllistair Family.
M[]
Magic Missile[]
- Description: A battle magic spell created during World War II which takes the form of a small pointed dagger of light beaming out from between the casters enclosed hands.[11] Quentin Coldwater and his friends studied the spell in preparation for their ambush on The Beast in Fillory.[19]
Mann Reveal[]
- Description: A spell used to reveal something invisible. The spell is performed by the caster making a small window with the thumb and index finger of their hands.[5]
Mansell's Primary Invisibility[]
- Description: A cloaking spell taught to First Year students at Brakebills University.[3]
Matarese Summoning Spell[]
- Description: Used to summon the Matarese, a bug spirit from the Underworld. Typically, the Matarese is summoned to reverse the effects of the Scarlotti's Web hex.[20]
McNaughton's Unstealable[]
- Description: A powerful charm that enchants an item so that it is unable to be stolen. This spell is applied to the Alumni Keys of Brakebills graduates.[17]
Miller Flare[]
- Description: A spell that, to an onlooker, causes the caster to glow with intense pink-white light. Alice Quinn used the spell during her 500-kilometer race to the South Pole in Antarctica, adjusting the Quaternary Circumstances to make the spell give off heat.[11]
Mirror Bridge[]
- Description: A spell that allows Magicians to travel through Mirrors between locations. The bridge was created as an alternative to traveling through the Mirror Realm.[15]
Modus Hex[]
- Description: A hex used to gain control of another person's body. Harriet Schiff cast the spell on the slip in The Principles of Conjuring Elementals in an attempt to force a Librarian to access the Poison Room.[8]
Musical Spell[]
- Description: A spell to influence spontaneous music, song, and dance in all those nearby.[21]
N[]
Necromantic Resurrection Spell[]
- Description: A Necromancy spell found in the Brakebills Library that allows the caster to raise the dead. Julia Wicker used the spell to temporarily resurrect Marina Andrieski after she was killed by Reynard the Fox.[4]
O[]
Osseous Confervium[]
- Description: The Osseous Confervium is the first step in building a new body with magic, called 'bone-knitting' The process was started by Alice Quinn for Penny Adiyodi, who was trapped in the Astral Plane after his body died while he was astral projecting.[22]
P[]
Martin Chatwin's Paralysis Spell[]
- Description: A spell created by Martin Chatwin that is powerful enough to briefly incapacitate a god.[16][23]
Permafrost Spell[]
- Description: A massive ice spell. Zelda Schiff used to shut down all the Neitherlands' Fountains.[24]
Persian Fainting Charm[]
- Description: A charm that causes the target to lose consciousness.[5]
Polaski's Mending[]
Portal Creation Spell[]
- Description: A basic, though still somewhat advanced, utility spell used throughout the magical community. Mischa Mayakovsky creates portals for students at the end of every semester to return them to Brakebills' main campus. With a momentary flash of light, the wall became a door to the location of every member of Free Trader Beowulf, no matter their distance from each other globally. A Shadeless Julia Wicker used this to ambush Reynard the Fox at a park.[25]
Probability Spell[]
- Description: A spell that allows its caster to review the outcome of a possible situation.
R[]
Reed's Mark[]
- Description: An anti-magic spell that, when tattooed on someone, prevents them from casting magic. The spell was used by Everett Rowe to magically castrate Hedge Witches during the Serpent attacks.[9]
Revelation Charm[]
- Description: A charm used to detect the presence of magic. The caster makes a circle with their index finger and thumb and looks through the hole. Its variants include the Mann Reveal and Anasazi Vision Spell.[5]
Rhinemann Ultra[]
- Description: Presumably, the most powerful battle magic spell known in existence and can only be successfully executed by a Master Magician. Anything caught in the blast will be obliterated.[26]
Romanian Flying Spell[]
- Description: A spell used to enchant an object to fly. The spell was used as part of a drinking game in the Physical Kids' Cottage, with the student who failed to perform the spell properly having to take a shot.[13]
S[]
Scarlatti Web[]
- Description: A powerful hex that traps the caster's target inside of a dark prison within their own mind that shapes itself to psychologically destroy the target.[20] The spell was used by Julia Wicker and Marina Andrieski to trap Quentin Coldwater so they could access the campus of Brakebills University, and later by Wicker and Richard Corrigan to access the mind of Kira, a catatonic Magician.[27]
Silver's Polling Spell[]
- Description: Originally created by Nate Silver, an Earth magician, Eliot Waugh uses an adjusted version of it to find out how popular he is in Fillory as High King.[8]
Singh's Advanced Skin Hardening[]
- Type: Shield
- Description: A shield spell used by Margo Hanson during the Tournament of the Centurion Guard to made her skin resilient to physical attacks.[28]
Strand's Vitrum[]
- Description: A spell used by Alice Quinn to repair a broken prism needed to perform Bjorn's Electromagnetic.[9]
Sumerian Shield Charm[]
- Description: A spell taught to First Year students at Brakebills University to protect against small projectiles. The spell was used by Quentin Coldwater, Margo Hanson, and Eliot Waugh to trap The Beast long enough for Alice Quinn to cast the Rhinemann Ultra.[23]
T[]
Teukolsky's Locator Spell[]
- Description: A spell to find the spirits of the deceased.[16]
Thibadeau's Planar Compression[]
- Description: A spell that manipulates dimensions to allow a large space to fit inside a much smaller space. The spell is used on Alice Quinn's parents' house, a moderately-sized home, but its interior is much larger than would normally be possible given the house's actual dimensions.[29]
Turkish Binding Spell[]
- Description: The spell magicians use to seal a rogue Niffin into a Niffin Box, a small, coffin-shaped wooden box etched with special sigils. A magician must recite the spell to permanently seal the Niffin within. The rite will not work on a greater skilled Niffin, such as Joseph, as they have learned to escape the box's binding and are no longer affected by the enchantment.[13]
U[]
Ugarte's Prismatic Spray[]
- Description: A spell that creates a trail of rainbow light in the air from the caster’s fingers.[11] This spell was found by Julia Wicker on the Internet and is the first spell she cast successfully.[5]
Une Chaleur Temporaire[]
- Description: A spell used by Julia Wicker and Marina Andrieski while locked in the meat locker of a safe house. This spell enabled them to withstand the cold temperatures long enough to escape. The spell, written in a mixture of Latin and French, requires the preparation of a concoction, along with alchemical symbols, the ingredients including crushed rocks and animal fat. Once the mixture is burned, it must be applied to the skin.[17]
V[]
Viking Raid Spell[]
- Description: An old Battle Magic spell designed for raiding a party. The spell was a ridiculously elaborate piece of collaborative magic, a five-person spell that would sharpen the Magicians' vision and hearing and increase their physical strength for a couple of hours.[11]
Vortex Spell[]
- Description: A spell used by Quentin Coldwater to win the 198th Welters Games for the Physical Kids.[2]
Voltaic Transfer[]
- Description: A spell designed to transfer the magical energy from one subject to another.[22]
W[]
Weizenheim's Third[]
- Description: A minor weather suspension spell that allows the caster to manipulate smoke. It can be performed by enchanting one's lips, allowing them to manipulate the movements and shapes smoke takes from cigarettes.[12]
Word as Bond[]
- Description: A magical contract used to bind two parties to an agreement. Julia Wicker created a bond with The Beast, and later by Quentin Coldwater on Niffin Alice, to magically seal the terms of a pact between the two. Accompanied by a sigil drawn onto a piece of paper, the intended parties then place the base of their thumbs onto the sigil, branding the spell onto themselves. It is stated to be impossible to break the Bond, though one can find loopholes if the terms aren't worded properly.
World Creation Spell[]
- Description: Described as primordial, with a feel of 'old magic' to it, this spell is an ancient Fillorian work of magic designed to create a pocket world — small enough to fit in the crack of a sidewalk, but "full of life and stars and physics".[30]
Woven Strength[]
- Description: A spell used by Janet Pluchinsky to defeat the Foremost during her time in the Wandering Desert. The spell grants the caster amazing strength, as Janet was able to send Foremost flying into a wall with a punch, despite her being physically worn out from her time in the desert.[5]
References[]
- ↑ The Magicians: 1.13: Have You Brought Me Little Cakes?
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 The Magicians: 1.05: Mendings, Major and Minor
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 The Magicians: New Class Vol 1
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 The Magicians: 2.04: The Flying Forest
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 5.7 The Magician King
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 The Magicians: 5.01: Do Something Crazy
- ↑ The Magicians: New Class Vol 2
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 The Magicians: 2.10: The Girl Who Told Time
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 The Magicians: 4.09: The Serpent
- ↑ The Magicians: 1.07: The Mayakovsky Circumstance
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 11.4 11.5 11.6 11.7 11.8 11.9 The Magicians
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 The Magicians: 2.05: Cheat Day
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 The Magicians: 1.03: Consequences of Advanced Spellcasting
- ↑ The Magicians: 4.08: Home Improvement
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 The Magicians: 4.07: The Side Effect
- ↑ 16.0 16.1 16.2 The Magicians: 1.01: Unauthorized Magic
- ↑ 17.0 17.1 17.2 The Magicians: 1.02: The Source of Magic
- ↑ Neeny Bigby, A Dedicated Professor, 1973 - Image
- ↑ The Magicians: 1.11: Remedial Battle Magic
- ↑ 20.0 20.1 The Magicians: 1.04: The World in the Walls
- ↑ The Magicians: 2.09: Lesser Evils
- ↑ 22.0 22.1 The Magicians: 3.06: Do You Like Teeth?
- ↑ 23.0 23.1 The Magicians: 2.03: Divine Elimination
- ↑ The Magicians: 5.13: Fillory and Further
- ↑ The Magicians: 2.09: Lesser Evils
- ↑ The Magicians: 2.02: Hotel Spa Potions
- ↑ The Magicians: 1.09: The Writing Room
- ↑ The Magicians: 5.03: The Mountain of Ghosts
- ↑ The Magicians: 1.10: Homecoming
- ↑ The Magician's Land
