| Energy | Rituals and Spells | Witches | Mental Powers |

Energy: A medium or substance by which things act to change other things. In the Buffyverse, there are both physical and mystical forms of energy.

| Mystical influences on physical laws | Mystical forces outside Sunnydale | Rituals and Spells | Non-ritualistic invocation of mystic forces | Compounds with mystical effects | Invoking and thwarting the mystical by physical means | Other examples of mystic forces |

"Things like that are easy when you live on a Hellmouth." --Giles, Nightmares

Examples:

• Time runs too fast while Buffy is taking an exam in Nightmares
• Marcie Ross' invisibility
• Assembling the perfect girl
• Building a robot: Ted, April
• Bezoar neural clamping
• The ghosts of some people (poltergeists) can effect physical objects
• Oz's werewolf condition improves his human senses
• Anya(nka) creates an alternate history in the Wish
• The Mayor heals quickly and is long-lived due to supernatural means
• An eclipse darkens the sky during the Mayor's commencement speech
• Gachnar can distort matter and reality while being summoned
• The Gentlemen steal the voices of the Sunnydale residents and trap them in a box
• Willow's incantation to ionize the air in Giles' apartment is classic control of the physical through mystical means
• Ethros demons take a physical form of their own when they need to regenerate their strength
• Traumatically repressed sexual desires can take on an un-life of their own
• Dracula's shape-shifting skills
• A spell transforms the Summers' memories and the objects in their home
• A spell makes the gang blind to very physical demons
• Magic can have a profound influence on the physical, but magic and medicine don't mix well. Healing spells can apparently make things worse than they were before. Not good news for Joyce.
• A demon fuses the two parts of his body back together in The Trial.
• A troll is physically trapped in a crystal for a millenium
• The Key is a "living energy"
• A Pockla blessing can aid a body part transplant
• dimension-hopping involves a tricky combination of physics and magic.
• The Illuminata diamond gives a mystical boost to quantum-mechanical laws.
• Cedrian crystals act like batteries with a little mystical help
• Gwen-the-thief's electrical powers aren't just physics in action.
• Connor and Cordelia brought Jasmine into the world, only they can take her out of it.

Masquerade's note: If you have a problem with the science of the Buffyverse, remember Joss's axiom: "It's not physics, it's metaphysics!" Magic is always a factor in special powers displayed on the shows, and magic augments the laws of nature. Anyone trying to find a completely scientific explanation anything on the shows is forgetting they're in the Buffyverse.

Mystical: According to Willow's knowledge of magic, magic does not so much break the laws of physics as use them to its advantage: Power cannot come from nowhere, it must be borrowed. Nothing can be created ex nihilo or completely destroyed, merely transformed. Transformation depends on finding catalysts to initiate the change. Despite this, the "laws of the mystical" have a logic all their own, often requiring rituals and spells to invoke them. With sufficient control, these forces can be harnessed. But insufficient precision (e.g., stray words, impure intentions) during the invocation of magic can produce results quite contrary to what was expected.

Buffy's statement, "One day I'm gonna live in a town where evil curses are just generally ruled out without even saying" (IMG) is probably wishful thinking. Things congregate in Sunnydale that you normally wouldn't find anywhere else, but mystical forces work everywhere in the Buffyverse. Examples:

• Priests locked Moloch's spirit in a book in Cortona, Italy in 1418
• Ampata had to be guarded from awakening elsewhere on her tour of the US
• Giles and his friends summoned Eyghon in London
• The Judge once burned the righteous down elsewhere
• der Kindestod killed Celia in L.A.
• The Gypsy curse first took place in Romania
• Ken and his demons' door to hell was in large city outside of Sunnydale (LA?)
• Ovu Mobani is an African demon
• Faith fought vampires in Boston
• Anyanka's power of the Wish has been used all over the world
• Bizarro-world Buffy fought vampires in Cleveland (The Wish).
• Angelus spread his evil in Ireland, England, and Romania; Dru and Spike in Prague and Brazil
• The Hansel-and-Gretel demon played havoc in Omaha, Utah, and Germany
• There were Ascensions in Russia and Hawaii
• Vampires and demons lurk in the alley ways and boardrooms of Los Angeles
• Piasca is a flesh-eating Indian demon who enters a victim's mouth and eviscerates from within. Eww.
• Oz found control of his werewolf condition with monks in Tibet while Vanessa Brewer learned her evil skills from monks in Pajaur
• A sacred spot in the desert near the Hellmouth counterbalances its evil energy

Mystical forces can also sometimes be invoked through certain actions which are not clearly ritualistic. Examples:

• Any invitation to a vampire into a private residence, whether intentional or not
• Releasing a demon spirit from a book
• Undoing the Nightmare world
• The Judge was reanimated by assembling his body parts into their correct anatomical positions
• The invocation of The Wish
• When Willow tells Buffy about a protection spell, it breaks the spell's power
• Glory maintains her sanity by draining mental energy from human beings

Mystical forces are sometimes invoked by physical objects. Examples: Talismans "There's always a talisman." -- Buffy, Lessons

• Catherine Madison used doll surrogates to debilitate her enemies
• Breaking Ampata's seal frees the mummy from her tomb
• The statue of Janus in Ethan's Halloween spell
• The "mark of Eyghon" tattoo attracts... Eyghon
• The orb of Thessela is a temporary container of a human soul
• Scapulas are amulets worn around the neck as protection from evil
• Pulling out the sword in Acathla's chest awakens the demon
• Anyanka's amulet granted her demonic powers
• Balthazar sought his amulet in order to restore his full demonic power
• The Gem of Amara bequeaths invulnerability to the vampire that wears it
• An enchanted sword is needed to skewer and dismember the sewer monster in S&S.
• The Chumash knife makes the vengeance spirit Hus into flesh.
• Certain body parts of the those with supernatural gifts can be used by others to bring forth those powers.
• The Word of Valios is a 15th Century talisman used in a ritual to open the Hellmouth.
• A Doll's-Eye crystal can enhance the power of a spell.
• A Draconian Katra can be used to induce transmigration
• A Latin incantation to call forth a flame might fall flat most of the time, but "Don't speak Latin in front of the [spell] books."
• Don't underestimate the usefulness of a magic gourd.
• The ferula-gemina leaves people beside themselves.
• Kuhl's amulet, a key ingredient in transmorgification rituals.
• The Shroud of Rahmon absorbs a demon's powers
• The idol of Granath in the police chief's ritual
• The Band of Blacknil will get you into hell, assuming you want to go.
• Pylean slave collars and bejeweled consoles: bad combo.
• Jonathan's magic bone enhances the power of his spells.
• Sweet's talisman summons the demon from hell to Earth.
• Diamonds are excellent for cursing.
• Count Kurskov's power center medallion
• The psychic vision orb
• The Orbs of Nezzla'kahn
• A talisman of bone sics manifest spirits on Buffy and Dawn
• The Axis of Pythia can be used to look across dimensions
• An enchanted letterman's jacket is the key to a football player's success
• The bodies of the Ra-tet contain talismans that are the key to the destruction of daylight.
• A container for souls: the muo-ping
• The Prokaryote Stone helps uncover psychological traumas
• The Slayer's Scythe: weapon and talisman
• The crystal amulet uses the power of the sun to cleanse an area of vampires
• The re-corporealization ring
• Techno-mystical hybrids are talismans whose physical components are technological in nature.
• Tezcatcatl's sun-talisman
• A mystical crystal is the key to freeing the "fail-safe" monster in the Wolfram and Hart vault
• A pendant removes Gunn's memory, locking him a fake suburban purgatory
• An Orlon Window allows people to see the past is it really occurred. Usually, one looks into the Window to see the past, but the past will also be revealed if the Window breaks.

Mystical forces are sometimes thwarted by physical means. Examples: Any physical object that kills a vampire The power of Catherine's spell is reflected back at her by a mirror Ampata's seal keeps the mummy from leaving her tomb Breaking the Janus statue disrupts the Halloween spell Buffy disassembles the Judge with a rocket launcher

• der Kindestod is visible to those who were sick and delirious with fever
• Acathla's vortex was stopped up by a sword-skewered Angel
• Ovu Mobani was killed by attacking its eyes
• When Bizarro-world Giles smashes Anyanka's amulet, she is turned into Anya
• Crushing the Gem of Amara releases its mystical power
• Stabbing Hus with the Chumash knife turns him back into inert spirit
• When Riley smashes the Gentlemen's wooden box, it releases the trapped voices back to their owners
• A knife with the mark of Kekfadloren is the only way to kill Kek demons, if there are any
• If you can find an Ethros Box, it will trap an Ethros demon
• Killing a normally incorporeal demon by zapping it with electricity while it is in physical form.
• Warding off an ancient evil with the glowing Dagon Sphere
• Fire can destroy a demonic shroud
• Breaking the idol of Granath disrupts the zombie animation ritual
• A metal glove can kill a Kleynach demon
• Destroying an image of a deceased person used in a raising spell can end the spell.
• Metal can prevent individuals crossing through a dimensional portal together from ending up in different locations.
• Summers' blood closes a mystic portal between dimensions.
• When the urn of Osiris becomes defiled by breaking, it is no longer useful in the ritual to raise the dead.
• Shattering Count Kurskov's medal destrroys the source of his wizard powers
• Buffy slays the sword demon by breaking the sword in two
• You can trap a member of Sahjhan's species in a Resikhian Urn
• Buffy disempowers the Orbs of Nezzla'kahn by smashing them
• Breaking the bone talisman sends the manifest spirits whence they came
• Burning the enchanted letterman's jacket ends its spell on the women of Sunnydale
• Xander ends the First-Evil locator spell by smashing a bowl of essential ingredients.
• You stop a mystical gateway from opening with a lock-spell. You unlock the lock with a "skeleton key".
• Lindsey's memory is restored when a pendant around his neck is removed.

Compounds with mystical effects

• Potions used in spells have mystical properties
• Slayer blood freed the Master from the Hellmouth and cured Angel of the "Killer of the Dead".

The mystical properties of Slayer's Blood.... Some of them may be "old vampire's tales" and so on, but...

• Mr Trick Consequences:"I hear once you've tasted a Slayer, you never wanna go back." (jengod 11/16/00 5:51 pm, 19 Nov 2000 17:36)
• SpicoliVamp, "The Freshman": "Okay, but you gotta share the eatin'. 'Cause I'm thinkin' slayer's blood's gotta be - Whoa! - like Thai Stick."
• Spike, "Fool for Love": "Have you ever heard the saying, 'The blood of a Slayer is a powerful aphrodesiac?"

• Better living through chemistry: Mystical steroids, Pete's super-mas-macho mixture, the slayer-power dampener, Metaphysical PCP
• Absorbing demon blood passes on aspects of the demon to Buffy, and regenerates Angel's human body. Demon blood can also absorb psychic powers from a human who gained those powers from another demon and can pass on violent impulses from demon to human.
• Binding powders: Ethros Demons , Preggothian disabler, Divining powder.
• Virgin blood can help keep a demon from coming back to life.
• The blood of the Key is the key to breaking down dimensional walls. And only blood like Dawn's can bring the walls back up.
• Certain mystical potions (and a heart-echtomy) give a vampire invincibility for six hours. Then, of course, it kills him.
• Fawn blood is a key ingredient in the ritual to raise Buffy from the dead
• When Sorbris root is ground into a powder and blown on a person, it is supposed to make them confused. Unless it mixes with other chemicals, which can counteract its powers.
• The "paranormal prophylactic" prevents women from losing their supernatural gifts during physical intimacy
• What's the cure when you've been infected with demonic Penloxia? Cylenthium powder, a mystical antibiotic.
• The blood of a murder victim activates the Seal of Danthazar. The tears of the murderer deactivate it.
• Calendula can be used to hide dishonesty while getting your aura read.
• Liaison Hamilton's blood is imbued with the power of the Senior Partners.

Other examples of mystical forces

• James' haunting space
• What force caused Angel to return from Hell?
• Supernatural safeguards used to protect objects such as the Box of Gavrok
• Other supernatural "force fields":
  • the "mystic prison" that trapped the Master in the Hellmouth
  • the guard against uninvited vampires entering a house
  • the wall that kept braceleted demons from escaping slavery
  • ComboBuffy's shield against Adam's bullets
  • the barrier that protects the gas station refuge in Spiral
  • the sanctorium spell on Caritas puts up mystical barriers if there is violence.
  • the Furies' protection spell puts a force field around the Hyperion.
  • the mystical barrier that guards the Orbs of Nezzla'kahn will incinerate anything that isn't a Nezzla demon
  • A binding field prevents Willow from using her formidable powers on her friends
  • Willow's defense against the Grimslaw demon
  • the barrier against the Turok-han
  • the "sand of the red palm" can keep a powerful demon like Skip locked up tight, for a while.
  • the gateway to Illyria's temple
  • a mystical barrier invisible to Angel but visible to Connor prevents Angel from helping his son fight a prophecied battle.
• The Ascension is the outcome of several rituals, but is not itself a ritual

Rituals and Spells

The mystical forces in the Buffyverse do not behave in a completely random fashion. They can be controlled by those in the know. What is required is knowledge of a ritual or spell--specific words (the "incantation"),objects, and/or actions which harness specific mystical energies. The terms "ritual"and "spell" are used more or less interchangeably in the Buffyverse. The only apparent differences are that spells often mix incantations with potions, while rituals involve incantations and specific bodily actions. Furthermore, the word "spell" is often associated with witches and witchcraft.

Rituals

Clear examples of the use of rituals in BtVS:

| Creating the Vessel | Possessing and de-possessing the Pack | Binding Moloch | The revivification of the Master from his bones | Feeding Machida | The devotion to Chaos | Getting possessed by Eyghon | Restoring a sick vampire | Revoking the invitation to vampires | Opening the mouth of Acathla | The ritual of the undead (AKA The Gypsy curse) | Feeding Lurconis | Raising the dead | The Dedication ceremony for the Ascension | The ritual of Gavrok for the Ascension | The ritual of Mok'Togar | Summoning Gachnar | Eating of the ex-husband's brains | Summoning the warriors of vengeance | Summoning D'Hoffryn | Opening the Hellmouth | The ritual to keep a demon dead involves burial in virgin soil, and a Latinate incantation (Wesley, IGYUMS) | Traveling to the Nether Realm | The ritual of primeval power | The revivification of Darla | Raising the Thesulac | Forging and defusing the ferula-gemina | Incarnating the Key | A Tirer la Courture | The supplication to Yeska | Transmogrifying a living being | Animating zombies | The ritual sacrifice | Disenchanting the Band of Blacknil | The ritual for slayer guidance | Crossing into Pylea | The raising ritual | Beseeching the Loa | The sacrifice to Avilas | Removing Angel's soul | Returning Buffy from the realm of the Shadowmen | The Bu'shundi locator ritual | Birthing a higher being | The Matis demon's "flesh magic" | De-consecrating holy ground | Crossing dimensions |

The coding of rituals:We have seen several cases in which rituals were kept safe from those who would misuse them by putting the text of the ritual in a secret code, including The Du Lac Cross, for reading his manuscript, and the transliteration annals of the ritual of the undead in B1.

Spells

Clear examples of the use of spells in BtVS:

| Detecting a witch | The transpossession, debilitating enemies, and bloodstone vengeance spells (The Witch) | Reversing witch spells | Catherine's spell to put Buffy in the trophy | Turning children into their costumes | The Cordy love-spell and the rat transformation spell (BBB, Gingerbread) | Exorcising poltergeists | Immolating the Glove of Myhnegon | Lover's walk: the de-lusting spell for Xander and Willow and the love spell for Drusilla and Spike | Summoning Anyanka | Willow's protection spells in Gingerbread and Bad Girls | Lifting the veil of the Hansel-and-Gretel Demon | The Clouding Spell | Binding the Hellmouth | Creating a temporal fold | Returning VampWillow to the alternate history | Reversing the aspect of the demon | The Breath of the Entropics | Destroying the Box of Gavrok | Reversing a soul transfer | The Guiding Spell | Making beer "bad" | Binding a Ghost (RWAV, CWDP) | Willow's vengeance curse (WAH) | The Sensitivity Spell | The "I Will It So" spell | The Truth Spell | Supplication to Thespia (the spell to detect demons) | Ionizing the atmosphere | The augmentation spell | The joining spell | Summoning the elements | The confounding spell |

| The Tinkerbell spell | The Blind-to-demons spell | Weakening an enemy | Creating sunshine | Trapping Olaf in the crystal | Releasing Olaf's hammer | Sending Olaf to the Troll dimension | Disappearing and reappearing the cash register | Turning Olaf into a troll | The early warning spell | Teleporting a Hellgod | The deoculation charm | Raising Joyce | The Tara-protection spell | The spells of Darkest Magick | The supplication to Osiris (raising Buffy) | Incarnating the thaumogenesis demon | The sanctorium spell | Body-switching | Time-looping Buffy | Erasing Tara's memory | The sanctorium spell, pt 2 | The Tabula Rasa spell | De-ratting Amy | Rack's black magic spells | Breaking a force-field | Retrieving a wayward person | The spell to enchant the cerebral dampener | Releasing the sword demon | Locating the orbs | Closing the Quortoth fissure | Locating Warren | The Sumerian protection spell | Reassigning someone's sex | Returning missing memories | Locating potential slayers | Delothrian's Arrow | The Turkish Conjuration | The Memory Mojo | Altering the calling of Slayers | Summoning the dead | Throwing Wolfram and Hart out of whack | Removing Enochian glyphs | Cloaking a television signal | Unlocking a lock spell | The memory/reality altering spell | Angel's Wolfram and Hart glamor |

How do spells work? One fan speculates:

I'd say that the electrical currents set up by the witches brain when reciting a spell create a sort of lens for natural forces to funnel through and effect change. The magic circle, whatever ingredients or actions that accompany the spell are part of the lens, and direct the focus (Dianne, Dec 14 19:30 1998).

Curses: Spells and rituals meant to create long-term trouble for the victim. Examples:

• Sid the ventriloquist's dummy
• Ampata the living mummy
• the soul-restoration ritual turns Angelus into Angel, a demon with a soul
• Spike wanted a "right proper" vengeance curse against Angel for "making him" lose Drusilla
• Anyanka had the power to curse unfaithful men
• Willow almost curses Oz in Wild at Heart
• Ethan Rayne turns Giles into a Fyarl demon
• Indians cursed the burial grounds where a Catholic convent was built
• curses for hire
• witches trap a mean ol' troll in a crystal
• Halfrek's curse was intended to trap Dawn, Buffy, and Buffy's friends in Buffy's house indefinitely.
• Amy casts a hex on her ex-friend, the powerful witch Willow.
• Tezcatcatl's mystical deal

Bad Mojo

Most magic on the show isn't "bad", but some is. Examples of human characters who have harnessed rituals, spells, and witch-powers to serve evil or for selfish reasons:

• Catherine Madison, evil witch
• The Zoo-keeper in the Pack
• Ethan Rayne's mayhem spells
• Gwendolyn Post
• Jack O'Toole
• The Mayor's rituals of power
• Willow flirts with dark forces
• Wolfram and Hart's Sensitivity Spell
• mafioso wizards
• The Sobekites
• The demon Sahjhan
• Rack the black magician
• Magnus Hainsley the necromancer
• Matthias Pavayne
• Lucien Drake

Witches | Witches | Natural witches | Other spell-casters | Good vs. Evil Witches | Sources of magic powers | Witch training | Witchcraft spells | Wicca the religion |

Witches are human beings who habitually harness mystical forces, with and without using spells. Their power has limits, however. For example, Amy in rat form cannot reverse her own spell from Gingerbread.

Sorcerers and other spell-casters

• Technopagans
• Giles has performed spells with Amy, Jenny, and Willow.
• The magic shop owner in Passion seemed to recognize and fear Dru. Perhaps she visited his store before to get supplies.
• A pre-witch Willow organized the Mangus-tripod.
• Angel(us) knows his way around rituals and spells.
• Ethan Rayne is an evil sorcerer
• Dracula is pretty powerful with that showy gypsy stuff of his.
• The 16th-century French sorcerer Cloutier
• Rival wizard firms
• Khul, high priest of the Sobekites
• Doc: demon witch or something more?
• The clerics of the Knights of Byzantium have knowledge of ritual magic.
• Among other things, shaman can treat the sick or pregnant with special magicks.
• The transuding furies
• Rack the black magician
• Mistress Meerna, expert in dimensional magic
• Ma'at, a white magic shaman
• Wo-Pang, dark mystic from the Order of the Kun-Sun-Dai.
• The Svea(r), a family of powerful Nordic priestesses
• Cyvus Vail, warlock subcontractor of Wolfram and Hart

Witch training: Willow's emerging witchhood

• When Willow inherited Ms. Calendar's classroom and computer, she also got her spells. Being a quick study, Willow knew enough within months to help restore Angel's soul.
• During the summer of 1998, Willow did some pagan blessings, a "glamour" (a kind of veil) to hide a zit, and tried to communicate with the spirit world, unsuccessfully--she blew the power on her entire block.
• Other spells: floating feather, fire out of ice.
• In Lover's Walk, Willow tells Spike "I'm not a real witch" (not yet a full-fledged witch). She could become a full-fledged witch by studying magic over the course of many years.
• Although she is a member of Amy's coven by Gingerbread, it is evident that Willow has a ways to go. She can summon 2 out of 4 elements, but she isn't powerful enough to escape the mob as Amy did.
• When Willow gives Buffy a protection spell in Bad Girls (a small black felt pouch, lavender scented), she calls herself a "wicca".
• In Doppelgängland and Choices, Willow floats a pencil by force of will alone (without an incantation).

Willow is ready to move on to the next level--in witchcraft and evil-fighting--in Fear, Itself. In Something Blue, Willow proves capable of reversing Amy's rat spell from Gingerbread, with the right counter-spell. Willow is befriended by Tara a powerful witch: Soda-machine moving, Rose-floating, Doll's-eye crystal, demon-hunt-thwarting, monster-blinding. Willow finally communicates with the spirit world successfully, with Tara's help. Full fledged witch? The spell in Primeval requires an experienced witch. Willow seems to qualify.

• Willow reunites the two Xanders
• Is Willow' being careless with her power?
• Should Willow and Tara "register" as practicing witches? With whom?
• The Glory teleportation spell
• Willow attempts Darkest Magick on Glory.
• Gaining psychic access when you're not a natural psychic requires advanced magicks.
  
  
• Willow successfully brings Buffy back from the dead
• Regaining control of powerful magicks: Get It Done, Orpheus, Chosen
• Philosophies of witchcraaft: Willow vs. Tara

Mental Powers

 

| Mind control | Psychic powers | Telepathy, Telekinesis, and Teleportation | The nature of supernatural talents |

Mind control: Demons and other baddies often use various levels of mind control to get what they want. Some examples:

• Xander and the bad kids in The Pack
• Vamps with mesmeric power: The Master draws Buffy to her death, Dru uses hypnotic powers to subdue Kendra and Giles, Dracula seduces the slayer and her friends with more than just his reputation.
• A spell makes Xander and Buffy forget their identities in Halloween
• Ted's tranquil-izers
• Bezoar "neural clamping"
• The Cordy love spell in BBB
• A spirit's thrall
• When the adults of Sunnydale eat the Band Candy, they are not in control of their behavior, but they remember their adult lives.
• The Hansel-and-Gretel Demon flairs paranoia.
• The sensitivity spell puts the LAPD in touch with their inner children.
• The men of Oden Tal turn their women into obedient zombies by cutting the physical seat of their personalities.
• Dracula's thrall
• Turfog's thrall
• Rahmon's drive-'m-mad thing
• Willow control's Tara's memories with Lethe's bramble
• Willow gets out of a binding field with a little telepathic influence on the demonic Anya
• Non-magical mind control: brainwashing
• The Shiny Happy mojo: everything's beautiful in Jasmine's world. Or is it?

Psychic powers: An awareness of future, or hidden, distant events which does not rely on reasoning from evidence of the five senses. The characters who seem in possession of psychic powers are Buffy, Drusilla, the Caritas Host, and Cordelia via Doyle.

• Some of Buffy's dreams are definite examples of precognition--she is seeing events that are yet to happen. Not all of her psychic dreams are that straightforward. Many are symbolic or vague enough to be interpreted in more than one way. Clear examples of Buffy's psychic dreams: WttH, Nightmares, WSWB, Surprise/Innocence, IOHEFY (day dreams), Amends, G2, Hush, Restless, and Beneath You. Less clear examples: Anne, FH&T, Consequences, Bring on the Night, and Get It Done.

Other psychic experiences: Buffy's "deja vu" feelings about the falling pencil in B1 lead to the discovery of Jenny's disk with the soul-restoration ritual on it, Buffy's knowledge that Whistler is a demon sent down to even the score between good and evil, Buffy's knowledge that the monks made Dawn "from her".

• Drusilla's visions foretell the future or give her information about distant events she could not otherwise sense ("precognition"). They are typically vague. Either that, or she simply chooses to report it in a vague way. For example, in Halloween, Dru has psychic foreknowledge of Buffy's conversion into a helpless 18th-century girl: "Everything's switching. Outside to inside. It makes her weak. Tomorrow. Someone's come to change it all. Someone new." Drusilla has precognitive visions in: School Hard, Halloween, WML (in a tarot card reading), Surprise (a report of a dream), Innocence, Passion, IOHEFY, Becoming, FFL, Reunion, and Redefinition. In flashbacks (B1, Darla), we see that she had these gifts when she was human as well.
  
  
• Cordelia's (via Doyle) visions are short painful images that give her information which guide the Angel Investigations team in their fight against evil. Sometimes they are a little less informative (e.g., the bar in Lonely Hearts, but not what's evil there). Sometimes they are downright misleading (e.g., the Prio Motu and shop owners in TVT are good, not evil). Most of the time they help save the helpless just in the nick of time. The visions are an ancient powerful force that come from the Powers That Be. Despite this, the person who gets them may not be someone whom the Powers would have chosen to get them. Demons are the only ones who can withstand the blinding headaches that come with the visions, yet humans have had the visions more than once.

Unanswered question: is there one set of "visions" passed to Doyle down a line that included the 17th century woman in "Birthday", or can many people have the visions at once? (Or both?) This is unknown.

• The Caritas Host is a spirit-reader whose powers give him knowledge of other people's futures and lives.
• The Master and the Anointed One both sense the "new, powerful, psychic force" above ground that is causing people's dreams to become reality in Nightmares.
• Vanessa Brewer substituted psychic powers for normal sight.
• The Thesulac demon can induce and feed off of paranoia
• Aggie, the Host's psychic friend
• The fez-wearing psychic can tap into the channel that sends Cordelia her visions.
• The Wolfram and Hart psychic core
• Rack the black magician can get into people's heads and control their magical tripping.
• Cassie Newton the Clairvoyant
• The followers of Jasmine may not be psychic, but she certainly is.
• Mediums: psychics of the dead

Less clear cases:

• Does Giles have a psychic vision in The Dark Age?
• Does Angel have a psychic dream in The Prom? What about in Somnambulist?
• VampMarcus seemed to be able to tell a lot about Angel just by touching his chest.
• Sahjhan the demon

Telepathy: The ability to read the minds or enter the minds of others

• Buffy shares Angel's dreams in Amends
• The telepathic demons in Earshot
• There has been no evidence of psychic powers in any slayers other than Buffy. If the dream in G2 was psychic, it was Buffy in Faith's mind, not vice versa.
• Demon Barney was an empath, sensing the emotions of others.
• The Hacksaw Beast's psychic umbilical cord
• Ethros demon telepathy
• The telepathy twins do a sweep at Wolfram and Hart.
• Willow communicates covert plans to Spike in The Gift and to the entire gang in Bargaining.
• Willow, Buffy, and Xander make plans to defeat the Turok-han.
• Group minds created by a psychic connection: The Body Jasmine, the Harbingers of the First Evil.

Telekinesis: The power to move things with one's mind alone. It usually occurs under periods of extreme emotional distress.

• Catherine Madison in The Witch.
• A poltergeist is a ghost so plagued by anger and confusion that it can effect physical objects. Examples: James Stanley, Maude Pearson.
• Balthazar drew vampires towards himself.
• Willow stakes a vamp by telekinesis in Choices.
• Ronald Meltzer's ability to control his body parts when they are detached is a form of telekinesis.
• Willow and Tara join forces to move a soda machine and to float a rose.
• Ethros demon telekinesis
• Bethany Chaulk's got the power
• Willow and Tara together can move minions
• Lindsey shuts the door on Cordelia's escape in YW

Teleportation

 

 

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