"Bunch of wanna-blessed-bes. Nowadays every girl with a henna tattoo and a spice rack thinks she's a sister to the dark ones." -- Willow Rosenberg

"There was supposed to be an earth-shattering KABOOM!" -- Marvin the Martian

BOOKS OF MAGIC...

1. What word opens doors?
   Alohomora

2. What word casts light?
   Lumos

3. What does the Imperius Curse do?
   Gives the cast-er total control over the cast-ee.

4. What spell makes something grow larger?
   Engorgio

5. What's the technical name for the Killing Curse?
   Avada Kedavra

6. What counterspell blocks the Killing Curse?
   Trick question: none. Only Harry has ever survived it.

7. What are the "Unforgivable Curses"? Just name them, no need to explain the names.
   Avada Kedavra, Cruciatus, and Imperius.

8. What's the name of the Truth Serum Snape threatens to use on Harry?
   Veritaserum

Tolkien

9. Translate for us the words written over the doors to Moria, and tell us why Gandalf and the Company of the Ring had such a hard time opening them?
   "Speak Friend and Enter." Gandalf et al thought they had to say a password, ie, "Speak, Friend, and Enter" - but what it really meant was, "say the word for Friend, and Enter."

10. What word finally opened those doors?
    Mellon

Assorted Other Literary Spells

11. What three spells are used to bind the Greenwitch?
    The spells of Manna, Rec and Lir.

12. According to Diana Wynn Jones, what does the spell-word 'Crestomanci' do?
    It summons Crestomanci, the head wizard and arbitrator of magical justice in several of Jones' books.

13. In the Wizard of Earthsea, what spell did the wizard Ged first perform as a boy?
    A device which measures truth.

14. What spell was his nemesis, in the first book?
    a spell that summoned the dead

15. What does this incantation do, according to George MacDonald? "Light of spirit, by my charms/ Light of body, every part,/ Never weary human arms/ only crush thy parents' heart!"
    curses The Light Princess, who has no gravity of any kind.

16. What famous literary witches make use, in a spell, of "pilot's thumb, wracked as homeward he did come?"
    The witches in MacBeth, of course

Books of Magic (Not the category. The comic.)

17. If you had a child of heart and spirit, a child with the potential for power, and you sought to ensure that his potential would remain potential only, like an unlit candle locked in a darkened room; if you wished to confine him to a prison where his heart's fire would be slaked, and his spirit's wings would shrivel, where would you leave him?
    London

18. If Zatara or Zatanna wanted to make a rabbit appear, what spell would they say?
    raeppa tibbar

SPELLS ON FILM...

You had to know that a team called "Neutered Vampires Who Cheat at Kitten Poker" would ask some Buffy questions. For each of these spells, answer the brief questions which follow:

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

19. Janus, evoco vestram animam. Exaudi meam causam. Carpe noctem pro consilio vestro. Veni, appare et nobis monstra quod est infinita potestas. Persona se corpum et sanguium commutandum est. Vestra sancta praesentia concrescet viscera. Janus! Sume noctem!
    Purpose of spell: To turn false forms into true ones
    Victim/Object of spell: Sunnydale trick-or-treaters
    Who casts it? Ethan Rayne
    What happens next? Kids become their costumes
    

20. Quod perditum est, invenietur. Not dead... nor not of the living. Spirits of the interregnum, I call. Gods, bind him. Cast his heart from the... evil... realm. Return. Te implor, Doamne, nu ignora aceasta rugaminte. Nici mort, nici al fiintei... Lasa orbita sa fie vasul care-i va transporta, sufletul la el. Asa sa fie! Asa sa fie! Acum! Acum!
    Purpose of spell: To ensoul a vampire
    Victim/Object of spell: Angel
    Who casts it? Willow, Xander, Oz, Cordelia, and a dead gypsy
    What happens next? Angel gets his soul back; Buffy stabs him anyway
    

21. Goddess Hecate, work thy will. Before thee let the unclean thing crawl!
    Purpose of spell: To turn a human into a rat
    Victim/Object of spell: Amy
    Who casts it? Amy
    What happens next? She turns into a rat. For three seasons.
    

22. Oh... Anyanka... I-I beseech thee... Um... In the name of all women scorned... Come before me.
    Purpose of spell: To summon the demon Anyanka (Anya)
    Victim/Object of spell: Anya
    Who casts it? Giles -- in an alternate universe
    What happens next? He destroys her power center (her necklace)/Anya attacks him
    

23. The power of the Slayer and all who wield it. Last to ancient first, we invoke thee. Grant us thy domain and primal strength. Accept us in the power we possess. Make us mind and heart and spirit joy. Let the hand encompass us. Do thy will. Spiritus, Animus, Sophus, Malus ... We enjoin that we may inhabit the vessel--the hand, the daughter of Sineya, first of the ones. Kur.
    Purpose of spell: To summon the first Slayer
    Victim/Object of spell: Buffy
    Who casts it? Giles, Willow, and Xander
    What happens next? Buffy gains all of their abilities and the power of the first Slayer/Buffy kills Adam
    

24. Let the spell be ended.
    Purpose of spell: To rejoin both halves of Xander into one person
    Victim/Object of spell: Xander (both Xanders)
    Who casts it? Willow
    What happens next? Xander is whole again
    

25. Blind Cadria, desolate queen, work my will upon them all. Your curse upon them, my obeisance to you.
    Purpose of spell: To hide demons (i.e., Tara) from vision
    Victim/Object of spell: The Scoobs
    Who casts it? Tara
    What happens next? demons start attacking -- and they're invisible!
    

26. Osiris, giver of darkness, taker of life, god of gods: accept my offering. Bone, flesh, breath ... Yours, eternally. Bone, flesh, breath, I beg of you... return to me.
    Purpose of spell: To bring a woman back from the dead
    Victim/Object of spell: Joyce
    Who casts it? Dawn
    What happens next? A reasonably creepy retread of "The Monkey's Paw"/Joyce comes limping home/Dawn takes back the spell
    

27. Osiris, Keeper of the gate, master of all fate, hear us; Before time and after, before knowing and nothing; Accept our offering, know our prayer: Osiris! Here lies _______ ! Let her cross over! Let her cross over!
    Purpose of spell: To bring a woman back from the dead
    Victim/Object of spell: Buffy
    Who casts it? Willow, with Xander, Anya, and Tara
    What happens next? Buffy is resurrected inside her own coffin/Bikers attack
    

28. For ______, this I char. Let Lethe's Bramble do its chore. Purge their mind of memories grim, of pains from recent slights and sins. When the fire goes out, when the crystal turns black, the spell will be cast. Tabula rasa, tabula rasa, tabula rasa.
    Purpose of spell: To erase the memory
    Victim/Object of spell: Tara and Buffy
    Who casts it? Willow
    What happens next? It goes awry and all of the Scoobs lose their memory
    

Bits of Disney

29. In Disney's "The Sword in the Stone," what incantation turns Arthur into a fish?
    aquarius, aqualitus, aquaticus

30. The song which ends " higgitus biggitus miggitus mum, prestidigitonium!" does what?
    Shrinks all of Merlin's worldly goods into one valise

Babylon 5

31. What is the key to accessing the systems in the ring given to Galen by his father, which Galen, in turn, eventually gave to Fa? No need to give us the Ancient Greek; an English translation will do.
    said in ancient Greek: "Do not try the patience of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger."

32. What language did Isabelle use to cast her spells?
    Weaving

ASSORTED SPELL ID'S...

Tell us who spoke each of these spells:

33. I give you coin I made from a stone
    I give you a song I stole from the dirt
    I give you a knife from under the hills
    and a stick that I stuck through a dead man's eye
    I give you a claw I ripped from a rat
    I give you a name, and the name is lost
    I give you the blood from out of my vein,
    and a feather I pulled from an angel's wing
    I call you with names, oh my Lord, oh my Lord
    I summon with poison and summon with pain
    I open the way and I open the gates
    Come. Come. Come. Come. Come.
    Claw and name, blood and feather.
    Here in the darkness, we summon you, together.
    

    What was this spell-caster trying to do? What did s/he actually do, instead?
    Magus. Trying to summon Death; actually summoned Dream, instead. "Preludes and Nocturnes," Sandman

34. "Paluga, Savruga, come winds of the Caspian Sea. Larynxus, glassitis and max laryngitis, la voce to me."
    Ursula, from "Little Mermaid"

35. "Salacadula, mitchicabula, Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo."
    fairies, from "Cinderella

36. "Careful the tale you tell. That is the spell."
    Witch, from "Into the Woods"

37. "Ooh ee ooh ah ah, ting tang, walla walla bing bang"
    "Witch Doctor" by David Seville

38. "Abracadabra, let 'er rip!"
    Genie, from "Aladdin"

39. "Poppies. Poppies. Sleep!"
    The Wicked Witch of the West, from "The Wizard of Oz"

40. "Henwyn, from you I do beseech knowledge that lies beyond my reach. Huddled thoughts beyond your heart, pray you now those thoughts impart."
    Dorbin, from "The Black Cauldron" -- NOTE: the first sentence of thiswas also successfully invoked by Tauron.

41. "Arise my messengers of death, our time has arrived."
    The Horned King, >from "The Black Cauldron"

42. "Bubble, bubble... pour it in. For that rabbit's Mickey Finn..."
    Witch Hazel, from "Bewitched Bunny"

43. "Abracahocus pocuscadabra Walla Walla Washington."
    Bugs Bunny from "Bugs Bunny vs. the Vampire"

MISCELLANEOUS...

44. What famed song by Screaming Jay Hawkins fits into the theme of this bonus?
    "She Put A Spell On Me"