A Power Binding Spell is a type of spell that can be used to render a magical being's powers dormant, making them mortal and powerless.
The process can be reversed by an unbinding spell.
List of Binding Spells[]
Marisol's Binding Spell[]
Marisol Vera bound her little daughters' witchy powers when they each were born to protect them. On the night of her death, she did the Power Unbinding Spell to awaken their powers, though it took three months before it happened, as their powers were officially activated once they were all three in the same place.[1]
Charity's Binding Spell[]
In "Memento Mori", Charity Callahan made Macy Vaughn doubt herself and persuaded her to willingly bind her powers temporarily, but the process was never followed through as Macy figured out Charity's betrayal.
Abigael's Binding Spell[]
In "Witchful Thinking", Abigael Jameson-Caine, tired of the suicidal tendencies of her demonic side, decided to bind her powers and become a mortal. She asked Jordan Chase to help her perform this ritual, because it required "a human of benevolent, merciful heart." However, before they could finish the ritual, the Perfecti broke into the apartment and sent them both to the Tomb of Chaos.
The spell requires two people to perform. The witch to relinquish their powers will spill their own blood over a fire.
- The blood begone. And with that, it shall all be forever lost.
Once the incantation was cast, another person would hold the dagger and stick it into the witch's back.
Trivia[]
- Marisol's spell was able to bind only her daughters' witchy powers, but Macy's demonic side was still active and could use pyrokinesis.[2]
- Harry Greenwood claimed that it was dangerous to bind a Charmed One, and it could lead to the loss of the Power of Three forever.[3]
- In the original show, the first Charmed Ones' grandmother bound their powers for their protection. Their powers were not unbound until six months after she died.
- Unlike the original, if a power binding process was done, the powers could become permanently lost if the caster was killed before unbinding those powers.
- Although a binding spell was never cast on her, during the six years when Macy's stem cells were donated to Kaela Danso, which resulted into giving Kaela her own magic, her magic was bound, up until after Macy had died and Kaela met Mel and Maggie Vera.