| “ | Agnes was a hermit nun, and as mad as a hatter. Made it her business to undo curses. | ” |
Agnes was a rogue nun who became a witch and dedicated her life to undoing curses.
History[]
Agnes received visions of darkness, and wrote them in the Book of the Damned. She wrote the book using her own flayed pieces of flesh and blood. She made it her business to undo curses. A cornucopia of curses and satanic visions did not go unnoticed by the church hierarchy. Agnes was burned alive when she was discovered.[1]
Powers and Abilities[]
| “ | As in any struggle between good and evil, balance is required. To cure one curse, Agnes had to know how to inflict another. | ” |
- Precognition - Agnes received visions of darkness, which allowed her to create the Book of The Damned.
- Curse Breaking - According to Rowena, Agnes devoted her life to breaking curses.
- Cursing - According to Rowena, Agnes also possessed the ability to cast curses as she needed to cast a curse to cure another.
- Necromancy - Agnes also discovered a spell for necromancy, Necromantiorum, enabling her to revive her allies in the past.
- Indomitable Will - Agnes was willing to skin herself, and go through the process of hardening her flayed flesh, to use it as writing. As well prick her own blood for ink. Besides that she was also determined to break curses most thought had no cure. Agnes devoted a significate part of her life, in self-induced isolation to break every curse she knew. All of this proves an indomitable will.
Appearances[]
- Season 10
- Book of the Damned (mentioned only)
- Dark Dynasty (mentioned only)
- Season 11
- The Bad Seed (mentioned only)
- Season 14
- Absence (mentioned only)
Trivia[]
- Agnes is similar to the fictional character Abdul Alhazred, the writer of the Necronomicon, a grimoire appearing in the stories by horror writer H.P. Lovecraft. She shared some similar traits: receiving visions of darkness, being crazy at the end of their life, and were tragically killed by an unknown party.
- According to Rowena MacLeod, Agnes was "mad as a hatter."[1]
- Agnes's name is a reference to the character Agnes Nutter, a witch and prophetess from Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett's Good Omens. Agnes was the only person to accurately predict the future 100% of the time, and compiled The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch. Nutter was also burned at the stake, although it could be argued she exploded.
- According to Charlie Bradbury, Agnes was a poor woman who was simply ahead of her time.[1]