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P3: The brainchild of Piper Halliwell, but owned by all the sisters, P3 is a San Franciscan nightclub. Its name is a nod to the power of three.
Painting, The: Able to trap people within its picture, the Witch Nell created this magickal piece of art in the 1920's to capture and hold the Warlock Malcolm. A curse, written in Latin, was the only way to activate the paintings vortex and trap a being in its pocket dimension:
Absolvo amitto amplus brevis: Semper mea
"To free what is lost say these words: mine forever"
An intelligent and powerful Witch, Nell wrote the curse in lead underneath the surface of the paint, providing an irresistible challenge to Malcolm's power of x-ray vision while also ensuring no innocents would accidentally recite the curse and become trapped. What she did not anticipate was the creation of x-ray machines years later providing others access to the curse, though she did create a spell to escape the painting as a failsafe:
Verva
omnes liberant
"Words free us all"
After tricking The Charmed Ones into rescuing her lover after seventy years of imprisonment the Warlock Jane sought to burn the painting with the sisters inside, but instead succeeded only in dooming Malcolm and herself.
Parallel Planes:
Dimensions that run parallel to the mortal plane. Prue Halliwell and the
Horseman War were banished to one of these.
While on this plane Prue and War were able to communicate with the mortal world
by appearing as pools of light, were able to move some objects and make themselves
recognised. Prue was even able to move the Halliwell spirit board, and War was
able to project his voice through a television.
Paralysis Potion:
Dantalion created this potion to paralyze Prue Halliwell. Anyone affected by the
potion becomes incapable of physical movement, and soon after slips into
unconsciousness for half a day. The key ingredient of the potion is any item
that has touched the intended victims lips. In Prue Halliwell’s case this was
a lipstick. The item is then combined with white flowers and the blood of a
dying scorpion to yield the potion.
The Warlock Zion placed the potion on his lips and kissed Prue to place her
under its effects. It is most likely that the potion can be ingested in other
ways, while still retaining the same outcome.
Particle Manipulation:
Traditionally thought to be the ability to stop time in a localised area this
power, held by Warren Witches through the ages, is actually the manipulation of
the speed of particles within molecules and energy into a state of suspension,
causing them to freeze, or hyper-excitement, making objects explode.
The power can be used to cause an explosion within an object, for example
causing a glass to shatter, or to blast apart all particle bonds in an object,
disintegrating it.
Melinda Warren first possessed the stasis aspect of this power, called
‘freezing’, but Patty Halliwell and various other Witches in the Warren line
have also held it, though Piper Halliwell is the first Witch to use this power
in an explosive way. The range of the power is limited at first, usually to the
room the Witch is in, but grows with use. A Witch needs to activate this power
with a gesture of the hands.
Witches are immune to the effects of this ability, as are some stronger demons.
Past Spell: A spell that was created by Grams to send the Charmed Ones back to their time after they were stranded in the past. Grams and Patty both tried to cast the spell but it required more power, the power of the Charmed Ones. The spell was:
A
time for everything,
And
to everything its place,
Return
what has been moved,
Through
time and space
Past Life Spell: A spell that let’s the caster view the events of a past life. The person that journeys into their past life can only observe, and cannot control events in any way. When in the past one is in the body of their past self, but is able only to observe. They cannot control their body or alter events in any way. To cast the Past Life spell one needs only say these words:
Remove
the chains of time and space,
And
make my spirit soar,
Let
these mortal arms embrace,
The
life that haunts before
Phoebe Halliwell was able to alter this spell slightly to allow her to journey into her past life, yet have control of her past body. The spell involved the exchange of life forces between the caster and their past self: The person casting the spell went back to their past life and their past self was brought forward into caster’s body. The altered words to this Past Life spell were:
In
this time and in this place,
Take
the spirit I displace,
Bring
it forth while I go back,
To
inhabit a soul so black
Phoebe also wrote a companion spell capable of returning both souls to their rightful bodies and times:
In
this time and in this place,
Take the spirit I displace,
Bring me forth while she goes back,
To her soul so black
Past Lives: See Reincarnation.
Paul:
A Warlock and member of the Rogue Coven. He possessed the ability to create
force fields. These force fields were even capable of blocking the effects of
the freezing power. The ability appeared to be channeled through his hand.
Paul
died protecting his half brother Brendon. He was killed with a knife to the
heart, thrown by his brother Greg.
Pentagram: A magickal symbol. It can be used by good, or evil, depending on its presentation. For evil uses the Pentagram is inverted.
Peters, Tom:
Ex-footballer and college flame of Prue’s. After blowing out his knee in his
rookie year he was recruited by the demonic Training Academy, sacrificing his
humanity and becoming a demon in exchange for the settling of his gambling
debts.
As a trainee demon Tom possessed the power to cast fire balls.
Pier Eighty-Six: The wharf location of the Rat Demons business on the mortal plane.
Poppet: A charm in the shape of a human form that Witches and magickal beings sometimes use in spells. Prue and Phoebe Halliwell used a ninja doll as a substitute for a poppet when casting the awakening spell on Piper Halliwell.
Possession:
The ability to control living beings
actions by entering their body. Andras is able to possess a host if they become
angry enough, The Source is able to perform the act at will and certain ghosts
can escape the void and possess the living. Life essences are also able to
possess a host, but they do so quite differently. For more information on this
see: Life Essences.
When The Source possesses a person they retain no memory of their actions while
possessed, but do retain a general sense of uneasiness. In contrast those
possessed by Ghosts retain the memories of acts committed, as do Andras'
victims.
A life essence can be driven out of a host by a dispossessing spell and Andras
was able to be forcibly removed from Belthazor’s body by the strike of an
energy ball. Ghosts and The Source must voluntarily relinquish their possession.
Power
Of Three, The:
The combined magickal might of three Halliwell sisters, the Power Of
Three is far greater than the sum of its parts, and almost nothing can stand
against it. The Power Of Three makes possible feats that could not be
accomplished by lesser Witches, with many spells and vanquishes requiring the
power of three to work.
The Power Of Three is rooted in the Halliwell’s familial bond and if ever they
use their powers against each other in anger the triquetra on the Book Of
Shadows separates and their magick ceases to be until that bond is repaired.
Similarly a sister’s death will also break the Power Of Three, but does not
strip the remaining sisters of their abilities as Witches, leaving the charmed
circle open to reformation by another sibling.
Power Stripping
Potion: Phoebe Halliwell created this potion to strip Cole Turner of his
abilities as Belthazor. Though the object of the potion was to strip Cole’s
powers, it appeared that it would also strip him completely of his demonic
heritage, taking him off the demonic radar.
The potion required several ingredients, including billings root, or ginger,
chickweed, and dandelion. Once the ingredients were mixed with water the potion
needed to be shaken thoroughly for 200 heartbeats. After cooling and turning
blood red the potion was completed.
Phoebe created the potion to be ingested, but it was equally effective when a
demon was hit with it. Belthazor was consumed in flame and destroyed after being
struck with the potion, but Cole Turner remained unscathed.
Power Switching Spell: A spell that enables people to interchange their powers. First cast by Piper to obtain Leo’s powers and save him from death. To cast the spell you must say these words:
What’s
mine is yours,
What’s
yours is mine,
Let
our powers cross the line,
I
offer up this gift to share,
Switch
our powers through the air
To reverse the power swap the spell must be cast again.
Power Tripling Potion: Given to P. Russell by the Warlock Anton, this potion is capable of tripling the strength of a Witch’s power.
Premonition:
The psychic ability to see visions of the future first held in the Warren
line by Melinda and later by Phoebe Halliwell. The ability is psychometric,
requiring contact with a person or object for a Witch to receive a premonitory
flash, but is wild and unpredictable, striking without warning.
Premonition grows with use, as other Witches abilities do. Phoebe’s
premonition grew to enable her to see flashes of the past as well as of the
future, and at times she has demonstrated the power to purposefully call a
vision if the psychic energy left on an item is strong enough.
A
Witch’s premonitions are predominantly soundless and black and white, but
sometimes will contain an important sound or a coloured object.
Premonition was considered one of the more desirable powers to receive among the
Warren Witches, despite its passive nature.
Prince, The:
Ruler of a twelfth century kingdom and the object of the Evil Enchantress’
twisted plans. After falling sway to her love spell he was ripped to the present
by Paige Matthews and aided by The Charmed Ones.
With the Enchantress’s powers bound the Prince was freed to love his Lady
Julia once again.
Promote Compromise, To: A spell capable of influencing someone to make a reasonable agreement.
These words will travel,
Through the minds,
Of stubborn parties,
And unbind,
Thoughts too rigid to be kind,
A compromise they’ll disentwine
Protected Circle:
Created with old magick as a safe place for Charlotte to give birth to Melinda
Warren, this circle created a force field that prevented anyone from passing. A
circle is created using apples, laurel leaves, and lavender and rosemary; herbs
of protection.
Though powerful the protection of the circle did not extend to blocking bullets.
Provisolli, Angela: Former wife of Stan Provisolli, she was murdered by Andrew Wyke to ensure she didn’t reveal his money laundering scheme.
Provisolli, Stan: Possessed of the power of premonition, but terrified of the gift, Stan repressed his real magick as a Witch in favour of becoming a parlor magician. After an encounter with The Charmed Ones he became more accepting of his magick
Psychokinesis: Similar to telekinesis, this ability allows the bearer to move things they cannot see with the power of their mind. Psychokinetics are even able to affect complex machinery whose inner workings are foreign to them, such as alarms. When using this power the wielder goes into a trance like state. The young Witch Max and his mother both possessed psychokinesis.
Pyrokinesis: Generation of flame with the power of thought. A being with pyrokinetic power needs only concentrate on an object to set it alight.
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