Witch

Witches are supernatural beings who are born with the power to affect change by magical means (Witchcraft). Although the term "warlock" is commonly used to differentiate male witches from female witches, it appears that "witch" is a gender-neutral term that does apply to both men and women. While many witches are the devote worshipers of the "Dark Lord," other witches have been known to work against the Devil and use their power for benevolent purposes.

Witches tend to belong to covens, often referred to as churches, and are led by a single hierarchy, a High Priest. Each church consists of specific laws and traditions that all are expected to abide by. If a witch goes against their church's sanctioned rules, they may be excommunicated.

History
The origin of witchcraft remains unknown, however, it is known that witches have existed for many centuries passing down their knowledge and skills through generations of family lines. Consistent with popular belief, witches do receive their powers from darker forces, and most do worship the Devil.

The Feast of Feasts
Centuries ago, the fourteen women belonging to the earliest incarnation of the Church of Night were chased out of the township of Greendale into the hills, the forest. To avoid starvation that winter, Freya, the youngest, strongest witch sacrificed herself and offered up her body as sustenance to her fellow witches. To commemorate this event, witches hold a yearly feast, similar to a mortal Thanksgiving.

The Greendale Thirteen
After the Salem witch trials, the witches of Greendale were terrified by the ongoing witch hunt. Mortals were identifying and arresting witches, including the original Thirteen. To appease the mortal's blood lust and quell the rising witch hysteria, the other witches willingly allowed these thirteen women to be sacrificed and chose not to rescue them. In 1692, these thirteen witches were hung in the forest.

Powers and Abilities
Depending on their level of skill, witches possess a number of magical abilities. By joining together, witches can increase their magical strength. Among their many supernatural talents are:
 * Spell Casting: The power to change and control events through the use of incantations and/or ritualistic gestures.
 * Telekinesis: The power to move things with the power of the mind.
 * Elemental Control: The power to control and manipulate the elements of air, earth, fire, and water. This is inclusive of hellfire and the weather.
 * Mind Control: The power to control another person's mind, actions, thoughts and feelings.
 * Memory Manipulation: The power to scan and take away memories from people, and/or add false ones.
 * Illusion: The power to alter the senses of others to perceive a false reality.
 * Dream Walking: The power to enter another person's dreams.
 * Astral Projection: The power to separate from one's body and project the spirit to another location.
 * Conjuration: The power to conjure demons and other beings.
 * Summoning: The power to summon and teleport another witch from one location to another.
 * Warding: The power to place protection spells and wards on places and people, shielding them from harm.
 * Familiar Communication: The power to converse with their familiars.
 * Necromancy: The power to control, manipulate, and revive the dead.
 * Resurrection: The power to bring someone or one's self back from the dead.
 * Potion Making: The power to brew and concoct potions, remedies and elixirs that have supernatural properties.
 * Mediumship: The ability to see and communicate with the spirits of the dead.
 * Longevity: Witches are extremely long-lived, aging at an especially slow rate; while Zelda and Hilda Spellman appear to be middle-aged women, it has been confirmed they're actually much older. According to Ambrose, once a half-witch undergoes their Dark Baptism and is fully a witch, they stay younger longer.

Weaknesses

 * Mortality: Despite their mystical attributes, witches are still human and share many of the same weaknesses as non-supernatural beings (e.g. blood loss, immolation, snapped neck, etc.). However, witches can get around this weakness through the use of resurrection spells.
 * Witchcraft: Witches themselves are susceptible to the powers of witchcraft.

Spells and Rituals

 * Binding Spell: A spell to bind a person to a specific location and prevent them from leaving.
 * Incantation: Unknown
 * Requirements: Unknown
 * Used by: The Witch Council used this spell on Ambrose Spellman to the Spellman Mortuary for 75 years as punishment. Luke Chalfant used this spell on Ambrose to bind him to the Academy of Unseen Arts to protect him and keep him safe.


 * Familiar Summoning Spell: A spell found in the Demonomicon that is used to call upon any familiar.
 * Incantation Spirits of the forest, I pronounce my intentions to thee. Come forth and seek me, and equal we will be. Not master and servant, but familiar to familiar, to share our knowledge, our spirit, and our traits. And now, spirits, we will wait.
 * Requirements: A bell, wooden stick
 * Used by: Sabrina used this spell to call out anyone willing to volunteer to be her familiar instead of picking one from the Council's registry.


 * Blood Curse Spell: A spell that eats away at its victim's health, will, and sanity.
 * Incantation TBA
 * Requirements: None
 * Used by: The Weird Sisters used this curse on Sabrina for simply being a Half-Witch.


 * Blood Curse Removal Spell: A counter-spell to the Blood Curse.
 * Incantation If truly I am cursed today, let water wash the hex away. If truly I am cursed today, let water wash the hex away.
 * Requirements: Water
 * Used by: Sabrina attempted to remove the Weird Sisters' curse with water, though the spell did not work. Hilda noted that it lingered and a regimen of salt water baths and reversing candles over the course of a couple weeks would do the trick.


 * Memory Removal Spell: A spell that is used to remove the recent memories of others.
 * Incantation:  Bless your mind, bless your heart, let these painful thoughts depart.
 * Requirements: None
 * Used by: Sabrina used this spell to erase Harvey's memory after she reveled to him she was a witch.


 * Spider Spell: A spell used to make spiders appear in a specific place or target's location.
 * Incantation: Spider, O Spider, pray why do you spin your pretty white web so fine and so thin? To catch fat flies and make them into pies. Spider, O spider, pray, do you not see? Here comes a big, buzzing, blundering bee. He'll spoil your fine net while you fume and you fret, but no mercy you grant, and no mercy you'll get.
 * Requirements: A picture of the target, spiders
 * Used by: Sabrina and Ambrose used this spell to traumatize, using his fear of spiders, Principal Hawthorne into taking a few days off so that Sabrina could have her club, WICCA, approved by their assistant principal, Ms. Glover.


 * Navigation Spell: A spell used to navigate the twists and turns through a hay-bell maze to make it out the other side.
 * Incantation: Hickery Pickery, Hickery Pickery, where shall this girl go? She'll go east, she'll go west, she'll go to the crow's nest. Hickery Pickery, Hickery Pickery.
 * Requirements: None
 * Used by: Sabrina performed this spell to help her through a hay-bell maze so she could make it to the oldest apple tree in the orchard.


 * Witch Summoning Spell: A spell used to summon a witch from one location to another.
 * Sabrina's First Incantation: The weird sisters, hand in hand, travelers of the sea and land. Thrice to thine and thrice to mine, and thrice again, to make up nine. Peace! The charm's wound up.
 * Sabrina's Second Incantation: Hic ante circulum appareatis prudentiae, Prudence. In pulchra figura humana, and tortuasitate aliqua.
 * Requirements: A three pointed stick, twine
 * Used by: Sabrina used the first spell to summon the Weird Sisters to the Greendale Wood to strike a deal. Sabrina used another incantation to summon Prudence to speak about her sisters. Both Father Blackwood and Luke Chalfant used a similar spell to summon Zelda and Ambrose, respectively, to the Academy of Unseen Arts.


 * Illusion Spell: A spell to cause the intended targets to hallucinate.
 * Incantation: None
 * Requirements: None
 * Used by: Sabrina and the Weird Sisters used this spell on the mortal boys who hurt Sabrina's friend, Susie Putnam. The illusion made it seem like they were kissing the girls, when in actuality, they were kissing one another.


 * Impotence Spell: A spell to cause the impotence in men.
 * Incantation: Unknown
 * Requirements: None
 * Used by: The Weird Sisters used this spell on the mortal boys who hurt Sabrina's friend, believing that a few weeks of impotence would teach them better manners. Their 'boyhoods' were then represented as birds in a cage, thus preventing them from rising to any occasion.


 * Circle of Protection Spell: A spell that encloses a location in a ring of protection and that should a witch, save the Spellmans, cross its bounds will be engulfed in fire.
 * Incantation: Unknown
 * Requirements: None
 * Used by: Ambrose stated to Father Blackwood and the other members of the Church of Night that he cast this spell to protect Sabrina. Merely mentioning such a spell caused their ambition to reclaim Sabrina after she fled her Dark Baptism to falter. When prompted when he cast the spell, he told Sabrina that he hadn't but after the witches turn to leave, he should probably start.


 * Astral Projection Spell: A spell used to travel outside one's physical body through spirit form.
 * Incantation: Vola anima per aeterna. (repeated several times)
 * Requirements: Candles lit around the body, the precise location one wishes to project to, and a map
 * Used by: Ambrose used this spell to astral-project his form to Cerberus Books where he had a date with Luke. However, before he began the spell, Hilda warned him that only the dead are allowed to travel the astral plane and a witch can only astral-project for so long before the psychocpomps either carry his spirit to the afterlife or report him to the Dweller in the Abyss. Sabrina used this spell to astral-project her form to Jesse's room to see if Jesse is possessed by a demon. Hilda used this spell to astral-project her form to Baxter High to inform Sabrina about Father Blackwood's emergency meeting.


 * House Sealing Spell: A spell to seal a house to keep a threat from escaping into the world.
 * Incantation: Ex spiritibus enim sie te aeris. Qui Ompotentiam Tuam parcendo clavem ad. Ostium ligate Diabolum hunc!
 * Requirements: None
 * Used by: Zelda, Hilda, Sabrina, and Ambrose used this spell to seal their house and keep Batibat from escaping into the world.


 * Demon Trapping Spell: A spell to trap and contain a demon.
 * Zelda's Incantation: Turpis et infernis in terris pariunt. Adiuro vos tamen hoc graecas munus.
 * Sabrina's Incantation: Turpis et infernis in terris pariunt. Et furantur verba haec locutus sum vobis Laetitia. Punctum baculus parit malediction. Adiuro vos tamen hoc graecas munus.
 * Requirements: Object to trap demon inside of (e.g. jar, urn, etc.)
 * Used by: Zelda and Sabrina used this spell to trap the sleep demon Batibat.


 * Glamour Spell: A spell to that allows the witch to create an illusion, concealing the true form of something.
 * Incantation: Unknown
 * Requirements: None
 * Used by: Sabrina used this spell to Glamour, her familiar Salem in order to distract the Demon Batibat.


 * Astral Liberation Spell: A spell to free someone from an Astral attack.
 * Incantation: Liberate tuteme ex fuga.
 * Requirements: Person's name.
 * Used by: Ambrose used this spell to free Sabrina from almost dying in her Astral Form


 * Exorcism Ritual: A rite that can be used by a witch to free a person from possession by a demon.
 * Incantation: We call forth the witches from the shade. Those who came before us, and died, so that we might live. Visit us, Sisters. Intercede on our behalf. I call forth the powers of Lilith of Aradia, of Morgan le Fay. Visit us, Sisters. Intercede on our behalf. I call on Black Annis, I call on Anne Boleyn. I call on the Witch of Endor. Visit us, Sisters. Intercede on our behalf. I call on Hecate, on Artemis, on Luna to expel this demon. Expel Apophis. Return him to the Dark Lord. Visit us, Sisters. Intercede on our behalf. I call on Hildegard of Bingen, I call Marie Laveau. I call Tituba, I call Mary Bradbury. Visit us, Sisters. Intercede on our behalf. I call Nehman, Badb, Macha. Visit us, Sisters. Intercede on our behalf. I call Circe, I call Moll Dyer. Visit us, Sisters. Intercede on our behalf. I call on Juventas, the virgin, on Juno, the mother. Lend us your power. Expel the demon. Visit us, Sisters. Intercede on our behalf. I call upon Cybil Leak. I call upon Priscilla Spellman. I call upon Francis Spellman. I call upon Evanora and Locasta Spellman. Come forth, Kindly Ones. Come forth, Mother of Darkness. Lend us your power. Expel the demon Apophis. Visit us, Sisters. Intercede on our behalf. Visit us, Sisters. Intercede on our behalf. Visit us, Sisters. Intercede on our behalf.
 * Requirements: Salt
 * Used by: Sabrina exorcised the demon, Apophis, with the help of her aunts and Mary Wardwell.


 * Protection Spell: A spell used for someone's protection.
 * Incantation: Qui affecto protego, mixtisque iubas serpentibus et posteris meis stirpiqui. (Repeated several times)
 * Requirements: None
 * Used by: Sabrina used this spell to protect Harvey in fear that the Weird Sisters may harm him after the Kinkles shot the familiar in Moon Valley. Sabrina, Hilda, Zelda and Ambrose also used this spell to protect Baxter High from the Greendale Thirteen's wrath upon the townsfolk of Greendale. The majority of the coven of the Church of Night also used this spell to fortify the Academy of Unseen Arts against the same threat and Nicholas Scratch did the same for the Kinkle's home.


 * Rite of Resurrection: A spell to resurrect the dead.
 * Incantation: Hounds of Heaven, Hounds of Hell, Hounds of Earth, Guardians of the Door, we summon thee to help us resurrect the fallen son. No si vocare te. (repeat several times) We bow before the Door that divides the World of the Living from the World of the Dead. With humble gratitude, we ask that it be opened. Aperi ianuam. (Repeat a couple times)
 * Requirements: Pentagram, target's corpse, living person
 * Used by: Sabrina, Prudence Night, Dorcas, and Nicholas Scratch used this spell to resurrect Tommy Kinkle by sacrificing Agatha. The spell, however, only resurrected the body and not the soul.


 * Catching Spell: A spell to root a witch to a specific spot by driving a spike through that witch's footprint. The victim will remain rooted to the spot until the spike is removed from the footprint.
 * Incantation: None
 * Requirements: Spike, target witch's footprint
 * Used by: Nicholas used this spell to trap Prudence and Dorcas.


 * Tornado Summoning Spell: A spell used to make a tornado appear in a specific location.
 * Incantation: Boreas, North Wind, I summon you. Euros, East Wind, I summon you. Notos, South Wind, I summon you. Zephuros, West Wind, I summon you.
 * Requirements: A map of the target area, a bowl of water, four lidded glass jars
 * Used by: Sabrina, Hilda, Zelda and Ambrose used this spell to create a twister in order to encourage the mortals of Greendale into taking shelter in the bowels of Baxter High.


 * Hellfire Summoning Spell: A spell used to call forth fire from the pits of Hell.
 * Incantation: Ater ignus, fusce fume. Te evoco ut potentium tuam monstres. Cupidibus flammis hic veni. Caelo sub isto, harc arborem consumo. Lucem tenebrasque tuas monstra. Impetuum tuum evoco ad devorandum. Hanc arborem ac omnes hospitas devora.
 * Requirements: A powerful witch
 * Used by: In order to eliminate the Greendale Thirteen, Sabrina performed this spell to call forth the fires from the Pit of Hell. The searing inferno consumed their souls and, despite being ghosts, their charred bodies fell from the sky like ash. Prior to Sabrina, only three others in all of witch history have performed such a feat.

Tools

 * Book of the Beast: The most ancient tome in existence and unholy grimoire that is property of the Dark Lord. This book is notably used in a witch's Dark Baptism.
 * Demonomicon: An ancient grimoire filled with spells, such as to summon a familiar.
 * Candles: Candles are used in certain spells and rituals.
 * Poppet: A poppet is a human figurine used by witches to represent their victims and establish a magical connection with them.

Types of Magics

 * Conjuration: A form of magic that associates with summoning demons and other beings.
 * Herbalism: A form of magic that associates with the study of botany and use of plants intended for medicinal purposes.
 * Necromancy: A form of magic that associates with controlling and manipulating with the dead.

Witch Laws

 * No witch shall marry a mortal.
 * Novitiates must be virginal for their Dark Baptism.
 * The Path of Night or the Path of Light must be chosen.
 * Guilty until proven innocent.
 * Blood demands blood.

Notable Witches

 * Sabrina Spellman (Half-Human/Half-Witch)
 * Hilda Spellman
 * Zelda Spellman
 * Ambrose Spellman
 * Edward Spellman †
 * Father Blackwood
 * Prudence Night
 * Agatha
 * Dorcas
 * Nicholas Scratch
 * Lady Blackwood †


 * Connor Kemper †
 * Luke Chalfant
 * Infernal Three
 * Quentin †
 * Cyrus Mercy †
 * Lilith of Aradia †
 * Morgan le Fay †
 * Black Annis †
 * Anne Boleyn †
 * Witch of Endor †
 * Hecate †
 * Artemis †
 * Luna †
 * Hildegard of Bingen †
 * Marie Laveau †
 * Tituba †
 * Mary Bradbury †
 * Nehman †
 * Badb †


 * Macha †
 * Circe †
 * Moll Dyer †
 * Juventas, the virgin †
 * Juno, the mother †
 * Cybil Leek †
 * Priscilla Spellman †
 * Francis Spellman †
 * Evanora Spellman †
 * Locasta Spellman †
 * Freya †
 * Dezmelda
 * Mildred †
 * The Greendale Thirteen †
 * Judas Blackwood

Covens

 * Church of Night
 * Church of Shadows

Trivia

 * Witches bare a distinctive mark on their body, known as the "witch's mark", identifying them as such.
 * Half-witches may not bare such a mark.
 * Father Blackwood claims that in exchange for serving the Dark Lord, witches are exempt from Hell.
 * Witches are forbidden to perform exorcisms.
 * However, they are fully capable of performing exorcisms.
 * Midnight is referred to as the 'witching hour'.