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Originally Posted by Chaos2Frozen

Shall we do an experiment then? One of us picks a certain myth from anywhere in the world and the rest of us has to come up with a spell relative to it ?

I know I'm late to the party and all, but that caught my attention while I was cruising through this thread, with 2 spells I came up with one day (I think there is some plagiarism from the wiki here and there):

Spoiler for First spell:

Spell Name: Der Freischütz — literally, "The Free-shooter" — based magic

Spell Description: This ability is based off the legend of the Freischütz, a marksman in German folklore who, by a contract with the devil, has obtained a certain number of bullets destined to hit without fail whatever object he wishes. As the legend is usually told, six of the magic bullets (called Freikugeln, "free bullets"), are thus subservient to the marksman's will, but the seventh is at the absolute disposal of the devil himself.

To be used, this ability needs a firearm to serve as a spiritual item. Any type is fine but firearms from the 17th century, like muskets and multishot flintlocks, are highly recommended, as the fact that the legend originates from this time period makes the gun make the magic more efficient. Then, the magician has to cast the spell on the seven bullets, however the castings themselves serve as spells, offensives or defensives depending on the case, that occur separately: each time one appears, it cancels the previous one.

By repeating seven times the formula "Sechse treffen — sieben äffen!" ("Six strike true — seven mock you!"), the caster can invoke different supernatural phenomenons:

1. The first time, all the birds in the vicinity are mind-controlled by the magician to either defend him or attack while he casts the other bullets.
2. The second time, the magician summons an image of a boar, which charges through all obstacles.
3. The third time, it is a spell that allows free control over the wind, be there wind originally or not.
4. The fourth time, this time it controls fire, primarily in the form of four fiery wheels that are very difficult to escape, as it has the same properties as Sister Lucia's St. Catherine's Wheel, harming the guilty, which in this case is the person that the magician deems guilty
5. The fifth time, summoning of a replica of ''the Wild Hunt'', images of specters, mounted on hellish horses, and accompanied by Hellhounds. They punish the ''hunters'', in this case, the ennemies of the magician.
6. The sixth time, contrarily to the other spells, the effect of the fifth casting still last while a large-scale earthquake occurs, with the caster being the only one unaffected.
7. The seventh and last time (at the added words '"Samiel diminished seventh" to the original formula) appears Samiel, a being similar to Innocentius, this time a wind monster instead of a fire one (due to being invisible in the legend), which can't be destroyed unless the magician becomes unconscious, since he has no other casting and it's relatively easy to knock him out since Samiel takes a lot of energy to stay real. Like Innocentius, there is also extreme cases when Samiel's self regeneration abilities are overwhelmed and thus is destroyed by the damage.

With the bullets now being Freikugeln, six of the magic bullets hit whatever the marksman wishes. They are impossible to dodge, as it is a shoot focused on a single target that always wounds fatally. Once the trigger has been pressed, the cursed bullet reverses the nature of causality itself, the meaning of "cause and effect" in the order of things, to make it so the cause of the "bullet being shot" comes from the effect of the "target being fatally wounded" by it. The actual action of ''pressing the trigger'' is merely a formality, as the bullet has already reached its target before the attack has even started. The bullets can move at impossible angles that always manages to reach its target. As long as the shooter sees his target, he will wound or kill it. It will change its path around any obstacles or pierce through any wall in order to reach its target. This action looks completely normal to onlookers, as if it it were already reaching its target, because rather than truly changing its course, it changes the means to match the result, simply as an action meant to prove the fact that the target was shot. The seventh bullet, however, is not directed by the will of the magician but rather by the ''hand of the devil''. Instead of really being the devil like in the legend, it's rather by ''bad luck''. It's target is impossible to predict, it could be anyone, even the magician, as long as the gun ''sees'' it. The seventh bullet will be shot automatically following the sixth shot, rather the magician wants it or not. It's probably the most dangerous aspect of the Der Freischütz spell.

There are few ways to be protected from this spell (aside from having Imagine Breaker, of course):

1. By wearing a Walking Church, because it's the apotheosis of ''holiness'', as it was holiness that protected from the Der Freischütz in the original legend, as it was of demonic origin. It is a shield that overwhelms the magical energy of the bullets. It's also extremely effective against the castings, as it immediately nullifies the spells, even the Wild Hunt and Samiel, the most powerful ones.
2. By having high enough degree of luck, as it is considered ''God's blessing'', a divine protection that allows one to be able to alter fate.
3. Finally, in the original legend, the final bullet was deflected by sacred white roses. So wearing white roses around one's neck is probably the best defense against the seventh bullet, as well as the others.

Of course, the best measure against the Der Freischütz is to not allow the casting to even begin, since one can render the caster inconscious while he says the formula.

In the legend, to obtain the power of Der Freischütz, one had to sell his soul to the devil so after having shot all the bullets the devil appeared to claim the marksman's soul. So the rules of the legend overwrite the spell: after using it once, the magician can never use it again, since he is ''dead'' according to the legend.

Spoiler for Second Spell:

Spell Name: Val Sans Retour (literally, "The Valley of No Return")

Spell Description: This spell is based off the Arthurian legend of the Val sans Retour (French for "Valley of No Return") , an enchanted land in which the powerful sorceress Morgan Le Fay would imprison her unfaithful lovers. The knight Lancelot would be imprisoned here before breaking free thanks to his faithful love to Queen Guinevere.

Similar to Saronia A. Irivika's Leshy folklore-based magic, it's a forest-enclave magic, where the magician turns a specific area into an enclave, where he/she, personnifying Morgan Le Fay, traps inside those who were in the vincinity when the spell was casted and that the magician considers as their ''lovers''.

The sense of time and space is completely distorted for the prisonner(s), a bit like the high class defensive spell ''St. George's Sanctuary''. They cannot exit the Val, as they can never reach the boundaries, which keep distancing each time the prisonner(s) try to reach it.

It is impossible to enter the Val from the outside. More specifically, it exists in the same location as where the spell was first casted, but cannot be detected by human senses. This can be explained as the Val being on "different wavelengths", like Heaven, Hell, or, for a scientific perspective, the Imaginary Number District (a more recent example would also be Baggage City, that somehow formed into a complete different dimension during GREMLIN's holistic experiment). Therefore outsiders cannot detect it, even though both of them exist at the exact same location.

The caster of this spell can exit and enter their Val each time they want and can keep their ennemies imprisonned as long as they like, since that, due to its passive nature, the Val Sans Retour spell takes very little energy to maintain.

However, despite its apparent invincibility, this spell is quite simple to counter: the one trapped inside just have to bear no ill intent towards the caster. As soon as the ''lover'' ''loves'' back his ''beloved'', the spell becomes useless.

Since the Magic Side does not know if Morgan Le Fay really existed or not, it's hard to tell who was the first person to ever cast this spell. However, it is suspected that some unexplainable phenomenon are in fact Val Sans Retour spells in effect, like the Roanoke Island incident or the Bermuda Triangle.

And this one I'm ashamed to admit I never got anymore motivation to continue further (well, it is kinda OP too, if I may say so myself, probably fitting for a Majin to use):

Spoiler for Third Spell:

Spell Name: Odin's Songs

Spell Description: There are a few different processes for runic magic. You decide what effects you wants, you choose the most suitable rune or runes for that, you choose the location that would best draw out the effects of the runes, you actually carve the runes, you pray to the gods that ruled over each rune or magic used, you check on the effects, and you destroy the runes you had carved in order to end the effects.

These eighteen songs (ljóð) are spells the Norse god Odin wrote to describe the 18 runes of the Norse alphabet and their magic he discovered when he hung himself on the World Tree Yggdrasil. By using the Idol Theory, one can sing the songs to be able to use the runic spells instead of carving them, which is more complicated. They are also more powerful than normal runic spells. The magician begins his spells by first signing:

Ljóð ek þau kann

er kannat þjóðans kona

ok mannskis mögr (I know the songs

that no ruler's wife knows,

nor anyone's son)

It is then followed by the actual songs:

First rune:

Hjálp heitir eitt

en þat þér hjálpa mun

við sökum ok sorgum

ok sútum görvöllum(the first is called "Help",

and it will help you

with disputes and griefs

and absolutely all sorrows.)

This song allows one to triumphs over adversity, basically allows one to have amazing luck by allowing all kinds of ''miracles'' to happen. However, it has a weakness: despite the their name, the ''miracles'' are not that miraculous. The magician can use the "rune of miracles" to reset a bad situation, but as long as the chance of it becoming favourable is not zero. Since miracles can't really happen and everything is, in fact, a matter of possibilities, the rune can only make a miracle happen if the possibility isn't 0%. Also, the spell functions only if the magician is in a really bad pinch (''sorrow''). If there exists another method for the magician to escape his bad situation, even if he does not know it, the spell won't activate. It can be said that it helps only if you tried to help yourself first.

Second rune:

Þat kann ek annat

er þurfu ýta synir

þeir er vilja læknar lifa(I know a second

which the sons of men need, who leechcraft long to use.)

A simple healing spell that can be used indefinitely but not on the caster.

Third rune:

Þat kann ek it þriðja

ef mér verðr þörf mikil

hapts við mína heiptmögu

eggjar ek deyfi

minna andskota

bítat þeim vápn né velir(I know the third:

if great need befalls me

for a fetter for my enemy,

I can blunt the edges

of my enemies,

that weapons and staves do not bite for them.)

The pure version of ''Thororm's Defense Formula'', a defensive spell which, regardless if it's magical or scientific, as long as the caster can identify it then the offensive value a weapon can be "Set to zero". In the case of projectiles like bullet or arrows, they would loose all momentum and becomes useless. Explosives would need other interferences to explode after the effect expires. In theory, it can affect even nukes. Contrarily to its diluted version, its effects last as long as the caster wants it to. Since it's not Knight Leader's version, it still works against people of British royal blood. However, it still has some weakness: if the caster can't see the weapon then the spell can't be casted. Also, if he is overwhelmed with many different attacks by different kinds of weapons, the magician theorically couldn't block them all at once due to the possibility of mistaking one kind of weapon for another. This spell can only affect something that uses a weapon/medium, so anything that's purely magical/power related won't be affected by it.

Fourth rune:

Þat kann ek it fjórða

ef mér fyrðar bera

bönd at bóglimum

svá ek gel

at ek ganga má

sprettr mér af fótum fjöturr

en af höndum hapt (I know the fourth:

if men put

fetters on my limbs,

I sing so that

I can go:

fetter springs from my feet

and bond from my hands.)

This spell allows its caster to become literally unstoppable. No matter what you throw at him or if there is a wall between him and his target, he will always, always find a way to go through unscathed. He is not invulnerable; it's just that nothing can stop him. However, one can work their way around that by creating a strategy wherein not stopping would be disadvantageous for their opponent. It's difficult to do but it's realizable, since they can temporally slow down the monster by overwhelming him with many, many attacks, giving them time to make a strategy. One of the best would be to find a trap that will activate after the magician accomplishes his objective. Due to the nature of the spell, the caster doesn't pay attention to his surrounding, only looking ahead. It is not rare to hear of a magician who, after defeating a foe, is suddenly killed by a ridiculous spell that he could have sensed coming if he had paid attention.

Fifth rune:

Þat kann ek it fimmta

ef ek sé af fári skotinn

flein í fólki vaða

flýgra hann svá stinnt

at ek stöðvigak

ef ek hann sjónum of sék(I know the fifth:

if I see an arrow, shot in malice

to fly into a host,

it does not fly so strongly

that I cannot stop it,

if I catch sight of it.)

Similar to the Third Song and Thororm's Defense Formula, but instead of blocking weapons, once sung, this spell allows to catch any projectile thrown at the caster: arrow, spear, bullets, even, theorically, missiles. It works in that the magician's reaction time is increased exponentially and, at the same time, he makes any projectile thrown at him make move at a constant speed in the direction he wills it, regardless of any force acting upon it, essentially breaking the laws of motion. However, strangely, the projectile must be whole in order for the spell to work. So if one were to shoot at the caster an arrow lightly scratched, he wouldn't be able to stop it, rendering this spell pretty useless.

Sixth rune:

Þat kann ek it sétta

ef mik særir þegn

á rótum rams viðar

ok þann hal

er mik heipta kveðr

þann eta mein heldr en mik (I know the sixth:

if a warrior wounds me

with the root of a strong tree

and calls forth hatreds from me,

then the harms eat the man and not me.)

Originally used to counter curses, this spell can nowadays be labeled as ''the magical Automatic Reflect'', because it reflects every spell that come at the caster. This ability is automatic, so any kind of spell coming his way will have no effect on him, as they will be redirected, even if he is unaware of their presence. Mental attacks, attempts of mind control and illusions are also repelled. It doesn't matter if the spell is strong or not: it will be reflected right back at its caster. In fact, this ability is even more dangerous if the other magician casts an upper tier medium spell or a Pope-class spell. If a spell of this output was to be reflected, the incoming force would be much higher than the caster's defense. Even if many spells were trying to overwhelm the magician, it wouldn't do any good as since he is not defending, but simply reflecting, his shield is not stopping the magical attack, but instead diffusing it. Evidently, this type of defense only works against normal human magic; thus Magic God's magic or angelic magic completely ignore this reflection and still reach the magician. However, the spell has idiosyncrasies when reflecting out impacts, as such there are some magical attacks that the ''shield'' cannot fully escape. If ever a competent person can calculate the shockwave pattern, then they can open a hole in the spell's reflection. Using this technique requires the usage of advanced computers to calculate and predict the impact patterns.

Seventh rune:

Þat kann ek it sjaunda

ef ek sé hávan loga

sal um sessmögum

brennrat svá breitt

at ek honum bjargigak

þann kann ek galdr at gala (I know the seventh: if I see a high hall to burn around my table-companions, it does not burn so bright that I cannot save it, when I can sing the spell.)

This spell can theorically only stop an arson. However, in Western magic, fire can have different meanings (i.e. sometimes lightning is called ''fire of the gods'' in ancient mythology). As such, the spell stops everything related to fire: it can stop firearms from functionning, reduce an explosion to nothing and, most of all, stop all forms of electricity from functionning (in a 10km radius). The weakness of this spell is that it doesn't work when surrounded by water, like on a boat or in the rain, since the water ''is already'' extinguishing the power. So if one brings the magician near a sprinkler system, the spell is completely useless.

Eighth rune:

Þat kann ek it átta

er öllum er

nytsamligt at nema

hvars hatr vex

með hildings sonum

þat má ek bœta brátt (I know the eighth, which is useful for all to take: wherever hatred grows among the sons of the prince, I can quickly cure it.)

This spell works a bit like ''Divine Punishment'', only that, instead of stripping people of their consciousness if they bear any ill will towards the caster, it forcibly supress it. As such, the affected will never be hostile against the magician, even if he attacks them. Their mind is at peace whenever they are near or see the magician. The effect still last on the victims, even if the magician is gone, as it works like hypnotism: the spell still lingers on their subconscious, only to be reactivated once they see the caster again. If one is subjected to the spell once, they will be for the rest of their lives, unless the original caster dispell it. It's not that bad, as it doesn't affect the daily life. Still, this spell does not have the same scale as ''Divine Punishment'' as it only works in a 100 meters radius. As such, the caster can still be taken out by a long range-type of attack, whether a scientific sniper or a magical long range spell. And it's not a mind control-type of spell: the magician does not control his victims, he can only suggests that he is not a threat. However, people like Kihara Amata, who can kill with none of the hostility that is normally associated with it, are not at all affected by the Eighth Rune.

Ninth rune:

Þat kann ek it níunda

ef mik nauðr um stendr

at bjarga fari mínu á floti

vind ek kyrri

vági á ok svæfik allan sæ (I know the ninth: if I need to save my ship afloat I can calm the wind on the wave and lull the whole sea to sleep.)

A spell that can stop any environmental disturbances, even natural disasters such as tornadoes, volcanic eruptions, floods, earthquakes, etc. Is very effective against lightning or wind-type abilities.
(you can see where I started not to care anymore)

Tenth rune:

Þat kann ek it tíunda

ef ek sé túnriðir

leika lopti á

ek svá vinnk

at þeir villir fara

sinna heimhama

sinna heimhuga (I know the tenth: if I see witches playing in the air, I can so arrange it that they go astray from their proper shapes and proper thoughts.)

A confusing spell, which erases the memories of the person targeted and changes their appearance, making the person unable to tell who they are and rendering them unrecognizable by others as well. The target is technically ''dead'' and has been ''reborn'' as another. Fortunately, the effects do not last long.

There are 8 other songs, but at this point, I was pretty much fed up with it all.

Just a snippet of my mental state, folks, nothing to worry about.