The Ritual of Restoration is a spell to restore a vampire’s soul. The aim is to force the vampire to live with his evil actions and repent for them, whilst shunning him from other vampires. It was performed on Angelus by gypsies of the Kalderash clan. If the vampire has …

A revivification spell is a ritual to bring a dead vampire back to life. The ritual requires the bones of the vampire (if available) and the blood of the humans nearest to the vampire when it was dusted. The Anointed One instructed his lackeys to perform the ritual in When …

A reliquary is a place used to house items of religious significance such as the fingers of saints. Seen in What’s My Line, Part One, when items were stolen from the Du Lac tomb.

Flight 3982 was the flight that Giles took to London from Sunnydale airport in Bargaining (Part 1). The flight went via Los Angeles.

Xander’s summer road trip (first proposed in Choices) after he graduated from Sunnydale High ended shortly after the engine fell out of his car in Oxnard, California. He ended up doing the washing up at the Fabulous Ladies Nightclub, where he had to fill in for a male stripper who …

Juliet Landau, who played Drusilla, appeared in the 1994 film Ed Wood with her father Martin Landau. The film portrays the life of director Ed Wood (1924-1978), who is famous for making mostly terrible movies, including Plan 69 from Outer Space.
In the episode Gone, Andrew describes the Trio’s invisibility ray …

In Graduation Day (Part 2), Cordelia suggested a novel way of stopping the Mayor’s Ascension, “We’ll get a box with the Ebola virus and… and… Or it doesn’t even have to be real, we can just get a box that says Ebola on it and… um… chase him… with the …

Angel met Giles for the first time in Out of Mind, Out of Sight (”A vampire in love with a Slayer. It’s rather poetic, in a maudlin sort of way.”) and revealed to the Watcher that he could get copies of the Tiberius Manifesto and the Pergamum Codex, which are …

A tracer is an electronic tagging device used by The Initiative. One was used on Spike in The I in Team, but was removed by the Scoobies and flushed down the toilet.

The Transliteration Annuls for the Rituals of the Undead were encrypted texts on how to use the Orb of Thessulah. The translation had been lost for years until Jenny Calendar deciphered it using a computer programme. Angelus murdered Jenny in the episode Passion before she was able to use the …

Willow killed a baby deer in Bargaining (Part 1), in order to use its blood as an ingredient in the spell to resurrect Buffy. She lied to her friends by telling them the deer blood was Vino De Madre (roughly translated as “Wine of the Mother”).

Giles took Buffy on a sacred ‘Vision Quest’ after the death of her mother, in order for the Slayer to find the answers to some of her many questions about herself (Intervention). Giles drove Buffy to the desert, where he performed a traditional dance using a magic gourd to transfer …

The music Buffy and Faith shake their hair to in Bad Girls is ‘Chinese Burn’ by Curve. The lyrics fit Faith quite well, they are as follows:

She burns friends like a piece of wood
And she’s jealous of me because she never could
Hold herself up without a spine
And she’ll look …

Buffy lived in Cleveland, Ohio in the alternative universe in The Wish. In Chosen, Giles reveals that there is another Hellmouth in Cleveland in Chosen.

In one of his many attempts at employment, Xander sells Boost Bars in The I in Team. They are a real American ‘health’ snack. Xander tries to sell three flavours - cherry berry, maple walnut and liquorice. Giles buys a maple walnut flavour bar and immediately says in disgust, “Please …