Spell Circle is a magic glowing circle that is practiced by witches in the Disney Channel animated series The Owl House.
Background[]
Spell circles are how witches on The Boiling Isles cast spells, which is drawing a circle in the air using either their fingers or a staff. The intensity of the spell depends on the size of the circle. The bigger it is the more powerful the spell.
The circle can be drawn with a fingertip, a sweeping gesture of the hands, a tracing motion with the feet, a training wand, or the end of a witch's staff. Two, and possibly more, witches can cooperatively draw a single spell circle. Witches can cast multiple iterations of a spell by creating a single spell circle then slapping it with the palm of the hand. The witch then sweeps their hand which creates multiple identical spell circles. A witch can even cast two spell circles with each hand.
A spell circle requires magical energy in order to function. This means the caster must either have their own supply of magical energy, such as a magic bile sac attached to a witch's heart, or the caster must be on the Boiling Isles or another magical place to directly access the fallen titan's power in the air.
Trivia[]
- Spell circles appearing in The Owl House are part of a magic system trend that is popular in modern fantasy genre. Other shows and comic books that utilize spell circles, or floating incantations, include Fullmetal Alchemist, Fairy Tail, Garo, She-Ra: and The Princesses of Power, and The Dragon Prince. This recurring trend of magic needing the use of circles or a glyph originates from black magic practices of the Middle Ages and from alchemy of the late Renaissance period. A perfect circle was believed to be a universal symbol for balance and perfection in both mathematics and occult practices of those time periods.
- It also bears the common to the Sling Rings and the Tao Mandalas from Doctor Strange due to:
- Uses and gained by magic.
- Forms a circle and emits light.
- Eda has the same color references the common colors on the Master of the Mystic Arts.
- Coincidentally, the method witches of Boiling Isles conjuring the Spell Circle (drawing a glowing circle in the air) is pretty much similar to how Makai Knights summon their armor in Japanese adult dark fantasy tokusatsu series GARO.
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