Is that a “perfect moment of happiness” in your pocket, or are you just pleased to see me? The vampire Angelus tortured and killed a gypsy girl, and was cursed by Kalderash gypsies. They restored his soul and gave him a conscience, so that he must live with the guilt …

An augmentation spell is a spell which allows someone to change the world for their own good. In Superstar, Jonathan created an augmentation spell, providing him with the ability to make an alternative universe in which he seemed to be everyones ideal. The downside of the spell is that it …

Along with the handy ‘Locator spell’ the ‘Binding spell’ is one of the most commonly used plot devices spells in the Buffyverse. It is used in I Robot - You Jane (on Moloch the Corrupter), Faith, Hope and Trick (Giles pretends he needs to do one on Acathla), The Zeppo …

The bewitched beer sold in the college pub in Beer Bad was called Black Frost. The beer was enchanted the barman Jack’s brother-in-law, who just happened to be a warlock. Black Frost turned the students who drank it into really annoying Neanderthal-types who feared fire, as revenge for being snotty …

In Two to Go, Willow’s eyes and hair went black from the dark power she had gained. She also gets weird veiny skin. The first time we saw a witch draw on dark powers was in The Witch when Catherine Madison’s eyes also went black. Catherine’s daughter Amy introduced Willow …

In The Witch, Catherine Madison performed a Bloodstone Vengeance spell on Buffy. Giles explained that the effects of the spell hits the body like a “quart of alcohol”, then eradicates the immune system. It kills within hours. Buffy was saved when Giles reversed Catherine’s spell.

The ritual the Scoobies would have used to destroy the Mayor’s box of Gavrok in Choices is called the Breath of Entropics. The spell includes the ingredients essence of toad and twice-blessed sage.

In Conversations with Dead People, Dawn is confronted by an evil spirit in her house, which seems to be trying to stop her mother from contacting her. The spirit is most probably the First attempting to torment her. She performs a casting spell to get rid of the spirit, and …

In the Italian town of Cortona in 1418, Moloch the Corrupter was bound to a book using a binding spell and the The Circle of Kayless (in I Robot, You Jane). Giles and Jenny formed a virtual Circle of Kayless to create the same spell when Moloch was unleashed on …

A coven is a group of witches. Jenny Calendar belonged to an online coven of Technopagans. In season seven we learn that Willow has been reintegrated back into society by an unnamed coven, a group of powerful British witches. They were the ones who helped Giles to combat Evil Willow …

Darkest Magick was a book from which Willow got the magical power to attack Glory in Tough Love.

Doll’s eye crystals are extremely rare and used for magical purposes. Tara inherited one from her grandmother. She tried to give it to Willow in The I in Team, but Willow felt uncomfortable accepting a family heirloom as a gift. Later in that episode, though, we see her with the …

The Draconian Katra spell enables two people to switch bodies a-la-Freaky-Friday. Faith and Buffy’s bodies were swapped in the two parter This Year’s Girl and Who Are You?. Tara and Willow were able to conjure a similar spell to put the girls back in their rightful bodies. Tara said of …

An ‘Energy barrier’ is an invisible force field to keep enemies at bay. Willow created one around the Scoobies’ hideout to keep the Knights of Byzantium away in Spiral, and one in Showtime to defend the Scoobies from the Turok-Han.

Willow, Giles, Buffy and Xander used an enjoining spell to enable Buffy to defeat Adam in Primeval. They combined their essences of Giles (Surfus or The Mind), Willow (Spiritus or The Spirit), Xander (Animus or The Heart), and Buffy (Manus or The Hand). Buffy became indestructible, and was able to …