Spells

In The Hollow Kingdom trilogy, many spells are used by elves, goblins, and dwarves.

Spells
Tracking Spell - a spell that lights up prints or tracks allowing the caster to follow them.

Border Spell - a spell cast by each elf King at the beginning of his reign. over two weeks, he walks the border of his land, casting the magic. The process takes two weeks. The spell protects the elf King's forest from non-elves by confusing and getting them lost. Only the most powerful goblins can get through it one at a time.

Leashing Spell - a spell that temporarily binds two people together with an invisible ten foot connection.

Stamp of Truth - a spell that forces the recipeant to tell the truth. It is permanent and works on the entire person so that even if their tongue is bitten off, they will find other ways of telling the truth. It is applied with wax and a stamp.

King's Wife Charm - a spell that protects the goblin King's Wife from danger. The charm starts out as a sword while it isn't protecting a Wife and takes the form of a snake while it is is.

Carrying Spell - a spell that levitates an object and allows the castor to convey it elsewhere.

Fire Spell - a spell that casts fire.

Hunting Spell - an elvish spell that kills an animal.

Rabbit Spell - an elvish spell that turns creatures into rabbits. The spell Thorn uses to cast it in Close Kin is, "Soft without but fierce within live in caves like goblin kin."

Binding Spell - the goblin marriage spell. The goblin King performs the spell for each marriage in the kingdom by taking a hair from the bride and wrapping it around the groom's wrist. Then taking a hair from the groom, he wraps it around the bride's wrist. The hairs imbed theselves in the skin. The hair's can't be felt unless one or both of the people cheat. the person who is unfaithful will develop an itch and rash around the area until they confess to adultry in front of the King, their spouse, and the court.

Kingdom Spells - the spells worked by the goblin King to keep the kingdom in order.

Door Spell - a spell that keeps someone inside of the goblin kingdom.

Unlock Spell - a spell that unlock's doors.

Fever Spell - a spell for fevers.

Locating Spell - a spell that locates illnesses and wounds in the body.

Insect Spell - a spell to protect people from insects.

Rain Spell - a spell to keep people dry in the rain.

Amnesia Spell - a liquid that erases the memory of the person who drinks it. This is used by some of the later elf King's who erase the memories of their wives as a way to force their devotion. "Yet this devotion came with a childish dependence since their empty lives held nothing else." Every King who used the Amnesia Spell abandoned his wife after the birth of their son.

Shearing Spell -a spell to peel wool off of sheep. This was used by elves.

Daylight Spell - a spell that forces a person to sleep while the sun is up. To perform the spell, the castor must say the elvish words, "Welcome, good friend, to the kingdom of the night" and then kiss their eyes. The spell is indended for the elf King's Wife, but was used on human slaves as well.

Seven Stars Spell - a spell that binds a human woman in marriage with the elf King. It is a marriage vow, but can be used as an unbreakable engagement spell if the bride is under 18. In performing the spell, the elf King takes for strands of his hair and strings each one through a seperate row of seven flowers. He then ties the strands around the wrists and ankles of the intended bride. Then he says the words of the spell as she looks into his eyes.

""Look at me," he said, and Miranda looked into those beautiful eyes as he whispered the words of the spell. She felt in sudden panic that she should look away, but those eyes were all she could see. They seemed to pull her whole being into them, to join and become a patch of the night sky shining with the light of the stars. She stared at that sky, felt it arch over her and around her, felt the stars coming close to her sides. They were surrounding her in a brilliant net, making her their prisoner."

- The marriage ceremony of Aganir Ash and Miranda Richardson

The strings of flowers spin as the spell is recited and turn into silver eight-pointed stars. The stars protect her from harm, stop her from harming elves, and force to obey her husband. The spell also causes her to burn goblins if they touch her.

Drying Spell - a spell elves use to keep their clothing dry.

Slaughtering Spell - a spell elves used to slaughter animals. The animal would disappear in a golden cloud and reappear in neat parts. The bones would be turned to powder to make elf knives with.