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Elemental Manipulation (sometimes known as elemental magic), is a branch of magic that allows witches and warlocks to exercise some control over nature and its elements.
In the novels, this form of magic is innate in all the gods, with some of them receiving divine associations to some aspects of nature upon their births. In the show, witches and warlocks have the common ability to manipulate the weather to some extent and is not unusual that a witch or warlock demonstrates control over at least one of the elements.
Activation
One of the many gifts that the witches and warlock have is the ability to influence the behavior of nature and bend it’s four traditional elements (wáter, air, fire, and earth) in all of its forms. Elemental magic can be peaceful and benevolent or chaotic and destructive depending on the user and their intentions, and just like any other form of magic, its uses can be practically endless, limited only by the witch or warlock magical skills. The majority of witches and warlocks use the most traditional form of elemental control to affect the weather, conjure fire or make plants grow, while others can manipulate more advanced elements like electricity and light and use certain elements as a form of divination.
Types of Elemental Manipulation
Pyrokinesis
Fire is probably the most powerful and deadly of the elements, and some witches and warlocks can manipulate it with ease. This ability tends to activate when the person experiences a strong and negative emotion, which usually is rage and it manifests with objects bursting into fire. With practice, some witches and warlocks can not only conjure fire but manipulate it, create heat or help themselves with some basic incantations.
| Use | Description | Example |
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| Ignition | Conjure flames/Set things on fire | 
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| Manipulation | Control and manipulate fire | 
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| Spark Generation/Manipulation | Conjure sparks from the tip of the fingers or make them appear out of nowhere to start a fire. | 
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| Spell | Function | Example |
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| Accende | Conjures a small fire | 
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| Incendia | Set an object on fire | 
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| Luce Ignis | Start a fire | 
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| Cinis Cineris | Incinerates | 
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| Forach deyna | Incinerates a Mandragora |
| Power | Description | Example |
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| Thermokinesis | Manipulate temperatures and generates heat | 
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| Character | Media | Abilities |
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| Freddie Beauchamp (Fryr, god of sun) |
Books | Bend the fires |
| Joanna Beauchamp (Skadi, goddess of earth) |
Books | Conjure fire Conjure sparks (via wand) |
| Freya Beauchamp (Freya, goddess of love) |
Books | Conjure fire |
| Molly Overbrook (Mooi, goddess of strength) |
Books | Conjure fire |
| Alberich | Books | Manipulate fire |
| Joanna Beauchamp | TV Show | Conjure fire Manipulate the flames Casting fire and incineration spells |
| Ingrid Beauchamp | TV Show | Conjure fire |
| Freya Beauchamp | TV Show | Conjure fire Conjure sparks |
| Wendy Beauchamp | TV Show | Conjure fire Conjure sparks Casting fire spells |
| Frederick Beauchamp | TV Show | Casting Incineration spells |
| Dash Gardiner | TV Show | Conjure fire Manipulate fire |
| Killian Gardiner | TV Show | Casting fire spells |
| King Nikolaus | TV Show | Conjure Fire |
| Alex | TV Show | Conjure Fire |
Hydrokinesis
Frequently related to life and calm, water is one of the primordial elements that can be controlled through magic, usually with harmless and benevolent purposes. The ability to manipulate water is known as Hydrokinesis and its uses go beyond water bending; in some rare cases, witches and warlocks can create water out of nowhere and control the sea life. In the novels, this ability seems to be unique to the gods with power over the waters. Just like with any other power, witches that lack this ability can exercise some control over this element with incantations.
| Use | Description | Example |
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| Manipulation | Control and manipulate water | 
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| Creation | Generate sources of waters | (books only) |
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| Aspergo | Splashes water | 
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| Talisman in a Jar | Keeping a symbolic talisman in a jar with water will mantain a dead body in the depths of the sea | 
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| Power | Description | Example |
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| Atmokinesis | Create rain Manipulate fog |
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| Cryokinesis | Create and manipulate ice | 
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| Hydromancy | See other places through water | 
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| Zoopathy | To communicate and manipulate aquatic creatures | (books only) |
| Character | Media | Abilities |
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| Norman Beauchamp (Njord, god of the sea) |
Books | Manipulate the oceans Manipulate the fish (insinuated) |
| Aegir, god of the sea | Books | Manipulate the water Control sea life |
| Freddie Beauchamp (Fryr, god of sun and the sea) |
Books | Can create sources of water in dry places |
| Bran Gardiner (Loki, god of mischief) |
Books | Can manipulate fog |
| Alberich | Books | Can create rain |
| Dash Gardiner (possibly) | TV Show | Was able to make water jump from a bowl. |
| Penelope Gardiner | TV Show | Can see other places through water and can use a magical water with restoring properties. |
| Wendy Beauchamp | TV Show | Casted a water spell |
| Doug | TV Show | Casted a freezing spell |
Geokinesis
Earth is known as the element of stability and by some witches like Joanna (the goddess of earth), life too. Earth is one of the main elements of nature and tends to be associated with goodness and healing, but just like nature itself, it has been proven to be destructive and deadly as well. In the books, witches and warlocks seem to have a very special connection to the earth as they like to practice their rituals outdoors and cast some of their most powerful spells surrounded by nature. In the books, the gods used to pay tribute to the earth and the world they now lived in (Midgard) but this was before the mortals became afraid of their craft and their kind so they have to abandon some of these practices and live in the shadows. Another example of the connection between a witch and the earth is when they fly, they can do it by themselves without any external help, but they like to use broomsticks because according to them they like to feel “grounded” to the earth.
Earth seems to be the most sentient of the elements. It’s state depends a lot of the magical energies of the witches; black magic can affect the nature and the earth can absorb negative energy, that later can channeled by some benevolent witch. White magic can be used to reverse the effects of dark witchcraft, and when its done properly, the earth responds positively, bringing everything in it back to life, almost as if reaffirming its loyalty to good magic.
The earth is a manipulable element and the witches and warlocks can use their powers to perform a myriad of magical deeds, some harmless, like bending the earth to make figures and structures with it, and others dangerous, like moving the earth to cause earthquakes. Witches are also capable of controlling everything found on the ground, like plants (they can make them grow, change their appareances and even wither them, some witches are so powerful that they can even make them grow in places without earth) and metals (this is only possible through spells).
| Use | Description | Example |
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| Moving | Moving the earth's resources | 
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| Manipulation | Manipulate all of earth's resources | (books only) |
| Fertilization | Fertilize land | (books only) |
| Withering | Take the life out of plants | 
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| Spell | Function | Example |
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| To Blossom | Makes flowers blossom. | (books only) |
| Flore...Pulchra. Flore...Veneficus | Makes flowers change their appareance and also fills them with poison. | 
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| Withering Spell | Kills the plants | (books only) |
| Pila Metalli | Generates metal from the hands to form a solid sphere of it. | 
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| Power | Description | Example |
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| Chlorokinesis | Control and manipulate plants | 
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| Channeling | Control magical energies found on earth | 
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| Character | Media | Abilities |
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| Joanna Beauchamp (Skadi, goddess of earth) |
Books | Control plants bestow with life everything on earth She casted a spell to kill the plants that were attacking her |
| Freya Beauchamp (Freya, goddess of love) |
Books | Restore ripe fruit to their original firm and juicy glory. |
| Freddie Beauchamp (Fryr, god of harvest) |
Books | Manipulating flowers Fertilizing arid land |
| Jo Noble | Books | Manipulating sand |
| Arthur Beauchamp (Snotra, god of the forrest) |
Books | Unknown |
| Bran Gardiner (Loki, god of mischief) |
Books | Can affect plants with dark magic to attack people |
| Trystan Gardiner (Tyr, god of war) |
Books | Make plants grow |
| Troy Overbrook (Thor, god of thunder) |
Books | His powerful storm-calling spell has the side effect of causing earthquakes around him |
| 1720 Freya Beauchamp | TV Show | Moving sand |
| 1693 Ingrid Beauchamp | TV Show | Make plants grow |
| Joanna Beauchamp | TV Show | She could bend the earth in the park and channel magical energies that were in it. |
| Wendy Beauchamp | TV Show | Can conjure metal with a spell |
| Penelope Gardiner | TV Show | Her blood can kill plant life Casted a spell to poison some flowers and change their black appareance to beautiful white roses. |
| Nikolaus | TV Show | Can make plants grow from nowhere. |