The Book Of Shadows

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Monday, 29 January 2007

The Book of Shadows is a large, leatherbound grimoire seen on the television series Charmed, which is owned by the Charmed Ones. It contains spells, potions, and information on their enemies. The Book has been enchanted to protect itself, causing it to move away whenever any evil being attempts to touch it. It has a large triquetra set on its front cover, symbolizing the Power of Three.

The ancestor of the Charmed Ones, Melinda Warren began the Book of Shadows in the late 1600s. When Melinda was burned at the stake for being a witch, her book was passed to her daughter Prudence. The book was then handed down from mother to daughter for more than three hundred years, until it was inherited by Prue, Piper, Phoebe, and Paige upon the death of their grandmother Penny.

The book has grown with each witch who has possessed it, and by the late 1960s, it had about one hundred pages. It continues to grow as the Charmed Ones add more information to it. In the final episode, Piper tells her granddaughter that the book will one day be hers.

First appearance	Something Wicca This Way Comes
Last appearance	Forever Charmed
Created by	Constance M. Burge

Statistics

Full Name

The Warren/Halliwell Book of Shadows

Status

In tact

Species

Magical tome

Affiliation

Good

Notable Family

It was created by Melinda Warren, and protected and enhanced by her descendants since

Notable powers

The Book of Shadows is an enchanted tome, which contains a lot of information and power. Being magical in nature, it can:

		Flip its own pages or act as a means of communicating with the dead
		Protect itself from evil
		Identify evil
		Harm evil
		Try and keep itself within its home
		It seems to get new pages as they are required to write on
		Change according to the status of The Charmed Ones

Due to its link with the Charmed Ones:

		It can lose its entire content if the sisters powers are stripped
		Its spells will become evil counterparts if the sisters turn evil
		If the sisters are under emotional distress, its power to protect itself is diminished

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