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==Bio==

Witches are practitioners of the religion of witchcraft, an ancient pagan art dating back to Ancient Greece utilizing the act of casting spells and hexes through a medium, such as a potion, brew or even a physical object. Contrary to other forms of magic, like wizardry, witches use potions to direct the precision of their spells into specific effects rather than a wand. Brooms and crystal balls are also random objects utilized in witchcraft.

Witches (and warlocks, their male counterparts) usually tend to socialize with each other, possibly due to some dissension and animosity with ordinary human beings dating back to the Middle Ages, a period of time in humanity between the end of the pagan worship of gods and the age of enlightenment. Witches prefer to date and inter-marry with their own kind, often producing children with mystical potential and proclivity to the mystical arts. Witches often use magic to extend their longevity and preserve their youth into a form of functional immortality. Witches are not immortal; nor are they immune to death since there is a point where they cannot come back. Due to their long live spans, witches tend to clandestinely refer to normal human beings as "mortals." Some witches do tend to date and inter-marry with normal people, producing what they refer to as "half-mortal children," like Sabrina.

Witches preside in an other-dimensional realm, which they refer to as the Other Realm; the physical dimensions and actual properties of this reality are unknown. Accessed by naturally-occurring and artificial access points on Earth, this realm has properties similar to Earth, such as an environment and seasonal interludes, but it is governed and maintained by mystical energies and often resembles an often abstract and exaggerated version of it. It is also possible it is mystically altered and transfigured by witches to fit their whims and desires.

Contents

1 Powers & Abilities

2 Limitations

3 Witch Items

4 Notes

5 Comments

==Powers & Abilities==

Witches can use spells to access magic to alter the world and reality on fundamental levels. Spells and incantations or often words in an alliteration used to invoke magic in specific means. Amongst the many supernatural skills are:

* Transfiguration: The magical act of transforming things and people into other things and people.

* Conjuration: The magical act of bringing objects from nowhere.

* Molecular Transference: The act of disappearing in a place and appearing in another.

* Hexes and Jinxes: Spells that call magical energy for malevolent intent.

* Memory Manipulation: Erase memories of a being, mostly used on mortals.

* Levitation: The ability to hover in the air.

* Potions : Brews enhanced by magic energy that cause the same effects as spells when ingested or sprayed.

==Limitations==

* No matter how powerful a witch might be they are not invincible and there are many limitations to their mystical art. Some of these limitations are imposed by The Witches Council while others are natural limitations of magical energy. Some spells cannot be used until a witch achieves a Witch's License.

* Some of a witch's magical limitations can be overcome by paying for the assistance of outside beings who specialize in such matters; for example: witches are forbidden to cast spells affecting free will. There are not allowed to perform love spells, but they are allowed to summon beings with greater powers than their own, such as Cupid, the Olympian god of love, to cast spells affecting the emotions of mortal man.

==Witch Items==

There are several items that a witch may possess/buy in order to get the most out of their witchcraft. Some of these items are passed down through a witch's family line, while others are purchased from The Other Realm.

These items could include:

* Brooms - In ancient times, witches used rods, shovels and similar objects as a balance to enable them to levitate and fly through the air. However, according to Sabrina's aunts, modern witches have updated to a mystically-enchanted flying vacuum cleaner as a modern day witch's most popular mode of transportation, but with their own power of teleportation, they rarely use it..

* Lab-top - Resembling a miniaturized chemist lab, the lab-top is a portable potion brewing system containing the most popular mystical ingredients in creating brews and potions, usually arranged in the Mystical Periodical Table Of Ingredients. Zelda considers it an expensive but valuable investment.

* Cauldron - Witches often use cauldrons in various sizes in order to brew powerful potions and elixirs to magnify or elicit the precision of their spells or incantations. Witches may also surround a cauldron for group spell casting.

* Crystal Ball - Witches often use crystal balls in order to focus or assist in developing their psychic senses, usually for clairvoyant visions or precognitive glimpses into the probable future. Sabrina could also use a crystal ball to call Other Realm acquaintances, as well as spy on others.

* Magic Book(s) - Witches often own small libraries of books, parchments and tomes detailing magic, lists of spells, potions and incantations or familial histories. Most of these books were written by one specific ancestor and given to specific family members over time. In the Spellman family, Sabrina had one Spellman Family Magic Book in her possession.

* Toaster - Over the years, witches have converted or enchanted typical household devices to have one or more purposes. Among these, Hilda and Zelda utilized a mystically enchanted toaster to send and receive mail from the magic community to their home.

==Notes==

* Sabrina continues the tradition started by 1960s-70s witch sitcom, "Bewitched," where most of the witches in the show have names that end in "a."

* Unlike the comics and some animated adaptations, male witches are not referred to as 'warlocks' in the series. The word 'witch' is gender neutral in the sitcom universe.