Genie Magic

Wishes come with a cost, Alice. The bigger the wish, the greater the consequence.

—Cyrus to Alice^src

Genie Magic, and its access Wishes, is a type of magic featured on ABC's Once Upon a Time. It first appears in the eleventh episode of the first season.

Genie magic is based on the magic of the genies^[1] from the "Aladdin" story, and the genie magic and wishes from the Disney film Aladdin.

Uses

Genie magic can only be used by genies, who have the power to grant three wishes to anyone that picks up their residing lamp or bottle. There are, however, some wish restrictions. One cannot wish for another person's demise by death, bring back the dead, make someone fall in love, change the past or use one wish to ask for many more wishes. ("Fruit of the Poisonous Tree," "Trust Me")

While the genie grants the wishes, they happen immediately, without the genie actually having to do anything themselves. Also, while the wish is granted, the genie has no control over what happens, therefore if the wish is not specific it can have dire consequences. Once the wishes are granted the genie goes back into the bottle for the next person to use them. ("Fruit of the Poisonous Tree" et al., "Nothing to Fear")

With the magic of three genies, a ritual known as the Spell of the Three Genies can be cast. Once finished, the sorcerers who cast it are no longer bound by the laws of magic. They can freely force others to love them, resurrect the dead and alter the past. ("And They Lived...")

Known Practitioners

Aladdin (formerly)
Cyrus (formerly)
The Genie of Agrabah (formerly)
Jafar (formerly)
Rafi (formerly)
Taj (formerly)
Will Scarlet (formerly)

List of Wishes

S	Ep	Master	Genie	Wish	Side Effect(s)
1	11	King Leopold	Genie of Agrabah	To free the Genie of Agrabah from his lamp.	The Genie falls in love with Leopold's wife, Regina.
		King Leopold		To give his last wish to the Genie of Agrabah.	Leopold is killed by the Genie, after he was manipulated by the Queen.
		Genie of Agrabah (originally Leopold's wish)		To never be separated from Regina.	The Genie is trapped as Regina's magic mirror.
6	10	Evil Queen (Serum)	Aladdin	To grant Emma's wish to have never been the Savior.	She is turned into a snake by Gideon.
		Regina Mills (as part of the Evil Queen)		To be sent to the same place as Emma.	Regina is sent to the Wish Realm, where people think she is the Evil Queen they knew.
		David Nolan		To get the Evil Queen what she deserves.	Gideon arrives at Storybrooke to kill Emma.
		Jasmine		To be taken to Agrabah with Aladdin.	Jasmine and Aladdin are taken to the Enchanted Forest, and Jasmine receives the Crown Jewel of Agrabah.
6	15			To be taken to Agrabah with Aladdin.
6	15			To take Jasmine, Aladdin, Hook, Nemo and Liam on Hangman's Island.	Nemo and Liam did not want to leave the Nautilus, and decide to return to it.
W	02	Farzeen Shahmed	Cyrus	To send Cyrus far from Agrabah.	Jafar kills Farzeen for having done this wish.
W	04	Gerard	Taj	To not be harmed by Jafar.	X
W	04	Alice	Cyrus	To die if Will Scarlet dies.	X
W	07	Alice		To send Edwin back home.	Edwin thinks his time in Wonderland was just a dream.
W	08	Will Scarlet (originally Alice's wish)		To end Alice's suffering.	Will is trapped as the bottle's new genie while Cyrus is freed.
W	09	Lizard (did the wish for Will)	Will Scarlet	To get beers for everyone in the village.	X
		Lizard		To be a girl noticed by Will.	As Will does not have his heart, he is still not attracted Lizard.
		Lizard		To have Will feel something for her.	Lizard is killed as Will feels sadness.
W	10	Red Queen		To have her crown.	The Red Queen is tortured and forced by the Jabberwocky to do her wishes.
				To have her jewels.
				To make the Jabberwocky stop.

Trivia

On-Screen Notes

Genies are injured when they come into contact with silver, which burns their skin. When Cyrus was imprisoned by Jafar, he was locked inside a silver cage to keep him from escaping. ("Trust Me")
The tradition of breaking a wishbone so the one who gets the larger half gets a wish, is a story created long ago by genies to make people believe that they do not have to seek out a bottle to get what they desire. ("The Serpent")
Similar to genie magic, the Wishing Star has the ability to grant a wish to its user. However, they are dissimilar in that the Wishing Star needs the user to be pure of heart to obtain a wish while genie magic only requires the user to be the owner of a genie's lamp or bottle. ("Fall")
Once a wish is granted, it can not be undone. ("Wish You Were Here")

Disney

The genies' ability to grant three wishes stems from the Disney film Aladdin. In the fairy tale, the genie is merely bound to do the bidding of the person holding the lamp. ("Fruit of the Poisonous Tree"; "Down the Rabbit Hole" et al; "Wish You Were Here," "A Wondrous Place")

Appearances

Once Upon a Time: Season One
"Pilot":	"The Thing You Love Most":	"Snow Falls":	"The Price of Gold":	"That Still Small Voice":	"The Shepherd":	"The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter":	"Desperate Souls":	"True North":	"7:15 A.M.":	"Fruit of the Poisonous Tree":
Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Appears
"Skin Deep":	"What Happened to Frederick":	"Dreamy":	"Red-Handed":	"Heart of Darkness":	"Hat Trick":	"The Stable Boy":	"The Return":	"The Stranger":	"An Apple Red as Blood":	"A Land Without Magic":
Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent

Once Upon a Time: Season Six
"The Savior":	"A Bitter Draught":	"The Other Shoe":	"Strange Case":	"Street Rats":	"Dark Waters":	"Heartless":	"I'll Be Your Mirror":	"Changelings":	"Wish You Were Here":	"Tougher Than the Rest":
Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Mentioned	Appears	Mentioned
"Murder Most Foul":	"Ill-Boding Patterns":	"Page 23":	"A Wondrous Place":	"Mother's Little Helper":	"Awake":	"Where Bluebirds Fly":	"The Black Fairy":	"The Song in Your Heart":	"The Final Battle Part 1":	"The Final Battle Part 2":
Absent	Absent	Mentioned	Appears	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent

Once Upon a Time: Season Seven
"Hyperion Heights":	"A Pirate's Life":	"The Garden of Forking Paths":	"Beauty":	"Greenbacks":	"Wake Up Call":	"Eloise Gardener":	"Pretty in Blue":	"One Little Tear":	"The Eighth Witch":	"Secret Garden":
Absent	Mentioned	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent
"A Taste of the Heights":	"Knightfall":	"The Girl in the Tower":	"Sisterhood":	"Breadcrumbs":	"Chosen":	"The Guardian":	"Flower Child":	"Is This Henry Mills?":	"Homecoming":	"Leaving Storybrooke":
Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Mentioned	Mentioned	Absent

*Once Upon a Time in Wonderland*
"Down the Rabbit Hole":	"Trust Me":	"Forget Me Not":	"The Serpent":	"Heart of Stone":	"Who's Alice":	"Bad Blood":
Mentioned	Appears	Mentioned	Appears	Absent	Absent	Appears
"Home":	"Nothing to Fear":	"Dirty Little Secrets":	"Heart of the Matter":	"To Catch a Thief":	"And They Lived...":
Appears	Appears	Appears	Absent	Mentioned	Appears

Once Upon a Time: Novels

Red's Untold Tale
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Once Upon a Time: Specials
"Magic is Coming":	"The Price of Magic":	"Journey to Neverland":	"Wicked is Coming":	"Storybrooke Has Frozen Over":
Archive	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent
"Secrets of Storybrooke":	"Dark Swan Rises":	"Evil Reigns Once More":	"The Final Battle Begins":
Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent

Other Appearances
Genies are mentioned in Once Upon a Time Volume II in "Only You" (as "jinns"). ^[2] Note that the same text appears in Henry's storybook in "Mother's Little Helper," but although some of the text around it can be read, the word "jinns" is illegible here.^[3]

Note: "Archive" denotes archive footage.

References

↑ The exact spelling varies, depending on the translation. This article uses the version found in the first edition of the "Aladdin" story, a story which was not found in the original Arabic manuscripts of One Thousand and One Nights, but was set down on paper for the first time by Antoine Galland (the French orientalist who was the first European translator of One Thousand and One Nights) in 1712; Galland heard the tale from a Syrian storyteller. (Source) The first edition, which can be read here (scroll down to "HISTOIRE D'ALADDIN, OU LA LAMPE MERVEILLEUSE"), uses the word "génie," which is French for "genie."

Note that many publications cite Richard Burton's English translation of One Thousand and One Nights (source); his translation of "Aladdin" (published in the third volume of The Supplemental Nights to the Thousand Nights and a Night with Notes Anthropological and Explanatory from 1887), which can be read online here, uses "Jinn" and "Jinni" instead of "genie."
↑ File:522ButHenry.png (look for "magots, goblins, afrits, marids, jinns, ghouls, peris" on line eleven)
↑ File:616SnowWhiteAndRoseRed2.png

Types of Magic

Belief \| Blood magic \| Divine magic \| Fairy magic \| Foresight
Genie magic \| Ice magic \| Mermaid magic \| Persuasion \| Potioncraft
Rock trolls memory magic \| True love \| Voodoo magic \| Witchcraft

[1] The exact spelling varies, depending on the translation. This article uses the version found in the first edition of the "Aladdin" story, a story which was not found in the original Arabic manuscripts of One Thousand and One Nights, but was set down on paper for the first time by Antoine Galland (the French orientalist who was the first European translator of One Thousand and One Nights) in 1712; Galland heard the tale from a Syrian storyteller. (Source) The first edition, which can be read here (scroll down to "HISTOIRE D'ALADDIN, OU LA LAMPE MERVEILLEUSE"), uses the word "génie," which is French for "genie."

Note that many publications cite Richard Burton's English translation of One Thousand and One Nights (source); his translation of "Aladdin" (published in the third volume of The Supplemental Nights to the Thousand Nights and a Night with Notes Anthropological and Explanatory from 1887), which can be read online here, uses "Jinn" and "Jinni" instead of "genie."

[2] File:522ButHenry.png (look for "magots, goblins, afrits, marids, jinns, ghouls, peris" on line eleven)

[3] File:616SnowWhiteAndRoseRed2.png

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Genie Magic

Contents

Uses

Known Practitioners

List of Wishes

Trivia

On-Screen Notes

Disney

Appearances

See also

References