Sorcerer Cloutier was a sixteenth century French sorcerer, who excelled at trances. In No Place Like Home, Anya mentions “Pull the curtain back”, a trances which enables a person to see a spell, via it’s trace signature. Buffy performed the trance to see what was harming her mother.

The Sadie Hawkins Dance was an annual dance at Sunnydale High School (though only mentioned in I Only Have Eyes For You) where the girls had to ask the boys for a date, and pay for the evening. Cordelia did not approve.

A scapula is a smelly pouch of herbs, worn around the neck as protection against evil spirits. Willow made them for the Scoobies in I Only Have Eyes For You, using sulphur.

Giles kept the book The Marenschadt Text hidden on the top shelf of his filing cabinet. In Enemies, Willow said it contained a section on genocide that dealt with Ascension. It also had a reference to the last entry of the journal of Desmond Kane, pastor of Sharpsville. The town …

Giles mentions the book Malleus Maleficarum in The Pack, saying it deals with demonic possession. The book is real. It was written by Heinrich Kramer and James Sprenger, in the late 15th century and acted as a kind of manual for witch hunters. It contained information on how to recognise …

Giles gave Buffy Lucious Temple’s diary to research the First Evil in Amends. Lucious Temple was an acolyte of Acathla and an expert on demons. He was also a keen gardener.

In Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered, Xander asked Amy Madison to put a love spell on Cordelia after she broke up with him. Amy needed something personal of Cordelia’s and lots of candles. In Lover’s Walk, Spike returned to Sunnydale and kidnapped Willow to make her perform a love spell to …

In Fool For Love, Spike says the night he killed his first Slayer was the best night of his life. In End of Days he tells Buffy that the night they spent together was the best in his life - a bit of a change from killing a Slayer!

In Chosen, the Scoobies talk about the shopping mall before the big fight. Willow says, “There’s an Agnes B in the new mall.” Agnes B is a French designer with shops all over the world.

Xander says to Buffy in End of Days, “If you die, I’ll bring you back. It’s what I do.” He’s referring to Buffy’s previous two deaths: when he revived her in Prophecy Girl, and when he helped with the spell to bring her back to life in Bargaining (Part 1).

In End of Days, Anya says to Andrew that she fled an apocalypse before (”Well, there was this other apocalypse this one time and… well, I took off”). She’s referring to Graduation Day (Part 1), when she left Sunnydale and tried to take Xander with her, to escape the Mayor’s …

Rebecca Rand Kirshner was an executive story editor and writer on Buffy. She wrote the episodes Out of My Mind, Listening to Fear, Tough Love, Tabula Rasa, Hell’s Bells, Help, Potential and Touched. Rebecca was also a writer on Gilmore Girls, Las Vegas and Freaks and Geeks, and wrote (with …

In her letter to Dawn in End of Days, Buffy says, “I promised once to show you this beautiful world and I’m going to do everything I can to make that happen.” She made this promise in Grave.

We find out in End of Days that Giles has a thing for Jaffa Cakes. They’re made by Jacobs and consist a spongey base, covered in chocolate and filled with a kind of orange jelly.

David Boreanaz returns to Sunnydale in End of Days for the first time since season five’s Forever. The season finale of Angel aired the week previously, which left David free to return to Sunnydale.