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| - "Practical" magic is a strange form of magic that is similar to alchemy in its principles; you must gather ingredients and then mix them together in a specific way to create a desired effect. It is also easy to learn. Anyone wishing to practice it must first gather the ingredients (The ingredients vary; seashells, herbs and plants, paper, bones; all have their uses) and then assemble and mix them in the correct way. This varies depending on the ingredients; its kind of like baking. If you have mostly liquid ingredients, the result is going to be a liquid; if they're mostly solid, it'ÃÂÃÂll be solid; so on, so forth. Whatever the spell/recipe then gives you can be augmented in a variety of different ways, most of them ritualistic in nature. Again, like cooking, the result can be used to
- The spell becomes a curse for several generations. Gillian and Sally Owens, two descendants of the Owens family, are taken in by their aunts Frances and Jet after the death of their parents. Sally is the more gifted of the two while Gillian's talents are more in charm and persuasion, and have been subject to ridicule during their youth. Sally decides that she and her daughters will not perform magic. As Gillian begins a relationship with Jimmy Angelov in Orlando, Sally is devastated by her husband's death. Gillian feels that Sally needs her and drugs Jimmy to return to Massachusetts.
- Sally and Gilly Owens are two sisters with an open secret: they come from a long line of witches, and their family harbors a terrible Hereditary Curse: any man who falls in love with them is doomed to die. They lost their father to the curse, and shortly after, their mother to a broken heart. As a result, they go off to live with their two eccentric aunts, Frances and Bridget. As they grow older, Sally decides she never wants to fall in love, and casts a spell to protect herself from its charms by decreeing she'll fall in love only with a man she believes can never exist. Gillian, on the other hand, is a free spirit who falls into lust easily and often, usually with men who are no good for her.
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| - Sally and Gilly Owens are two sisters with an open secret: they come from a long line of witches, and their family harbors a terrible Hereditary Curse: any man who falls in love with them is doomed to die. They lost their father to the curse, and shortly after, their mother to a broken heart. As a result, they go off to live with their two eccentric aunts, Frances and Bridget. As they grow older, Sally decides she never wants to fall in love, and casts a spell to protect herself from its charms by decreeing she'll fall in love only with a man she believes can never exist. Gillian, on the other hand, is a free spirit who falls into lust easily and often, usually with men who are no good for her. As they both grow older, Sally meets and marries a young man named Michael, and they have two daughters together. For the first time, she feels a normal life is attainable, and becomes part of the town community that had once shunned her for being a witch. Gillian drifts across the country, eventually meeting and falling for a violent creep named Jimmy Angelov. Both sisters hit a rough patch when Michael is killed -- another victim of the curse -- and Sally falls into a deep depression. Meanwhile, Jimmy isn't quite the angel he's pretended to be. When Jimmy attacks and kidnaps the Owens sisters, they fight back and he ends up dead. In order to cover their tracks, the women resort to Black Magic to revive him, only he comes back an even worse monster in death than he was in life. Forced to kill him again, this time they bury him in their backyard and unleash a new curse on their family name. Their troubles are compounded when a detective, Gary Hallet, shows up looking for Jimmy. The story is probably best remembered as a 1998 film, but was originally based on a book of the same name by Alice Hoffman. It should be noted that most of the tropes here apply to the movie. The book is markedly different. The movie stars Nicole Kidman and Sandra Bullock as the sisters (Gillian and Sally, respectively), with a supporting cast featuring Stockard Channing, Dianne Wiest, and Aidan Quinn. The director was Griffin Dunne, previously known for Addicted To Love (1997). The film was not particularly successful at the box office. It earned an estimated 46,683,377 dollars at the United States market, where it was only the 45th most successful film of its year. It performed relatively well in the United Kingdom but not elsewhere.
- The spell becomes a curse for several generations. Gillian and Sally Owens, two descendants of the Owens family, are taken in by their aunts Frances and Jet after the death of their parents. Sally is the more gifted of the two while Gillian's talents are more in charm and persuasion, and have been subject to ridicule during their youth. After witnessing their aunts cast a spell on a man for a woman who seems obsessed with having his love, Gillian decides to fall in love and Sally casts a true love spell to protect herself. The sisters cast an oath to each other using blood from both of their hands and Gillian leaves for Los Angeles. Sally meets and marries Michael, a local apple salesman. Years later, the two open their botanical shop Verbena and have two young daughters, Kylie and Antonia. Michael is killed after being hit by a truck. Sally and her daughters return to the Owens home to live with the aunts & realize that the aunts cast a spell so she could fall in love. Sally decides that she and her daughters will not perform magic. As Gillian begins a relationship with Jimmy Angelov in Orlando, Sally is devastated by her husband's death. Gillian feels that Sally needs her and drugs Jimmy to return to Massachusetts. Gillian returns to Sally after Jimmy becomes abusive, but the sisters are kidnapped. Sally puts belladonna into Jimmy's tequila, inadvertently killing him. The sisters resurrect him using the forbidden spell from their aunts' book of spells, but Jimmy attempts to kill Gillian after being revived. Sally kills him again, and the sisters bury his remains in their home's garden. State investigator Gary Hallett arrives from Tucson, Arizona in search of Jimmy, who is also a serial killer. As Gary begins to suspect Sally, Gillian, Kylie and Antonia create a potion to banish Gary; however, the girls realize he is the one described in Sally's true love spell, and remove the potion. Later, Sally has Gary record her testimony and sees the letter she had once written Gillian and realizes he must have read it more times than he had let on. Unable to deny their feelings for each other, they kiss and Sally realizes that he was there because of the spell she cast years earlier. Sally discovers that Jimmy's spirit has possessed Gillian's body and Gary sees Jimmy's spirit emerge. Jimmy attempts to possess Gary, only to be hurt by his silver star-shaped badge and is temporarily exiled. Later, Sally tells Gary that he is there because of her spell and the feelings they have for each other are not real. Gary replies that curses are only true if one believes in them and reveals that he also wished for her, before returning to Tucson. Jimmy possesses Gillian again and attempts to kill Sally before Frances and Jet return. Sally, realizing she must embrace magic to save her sister, asks the aid of the townswomen and they form a coven to exorcise Jimmy's spirit. Sally makes them stop when she sees that the effort might kill Gillian. Getting inside the circle, Sally and the townswomen reenact her oath with Gillian. They are able to break the Owens curse, exorcising Jimmy's spirit and allowing the coven to exile him permanently. Sally receives a letter from Gary telling her that she and her sister are cleared of any suspicion of wrongdoing in Jimmy's case and Gary returns to Massachusetts to be with Sally. The Owens women celebrate All Hallow's Eve dressed up in witch costumes, and are embraced and welcomed by the townsfolk.
- "Practical" magic is a strange form of magic that is similar to alchemy in its principles; you must gather ingredients and then mix them together in a specific way to create a desired effect. It is also easy to learn. Anyone wishing to practice it must first gather the ingredients (The ingredients vary; seashells, herbs and plants, paper, bones; all have their uses) and then assemble and mix them in the correct way. This varies depending on the ingredients; its kind of like baking. If you have mostly liquid ingredients, the result is going to be a liquid; if they're mostly solid, it'ÃÂÃÂll be solid; so on, so forth. Whatever the spell/recipe then gives you can be augmented in a variety of different ways, most of them ritualistic in nature. Again, like cooking, the result can be used to yield different effects depending on what went into it. Certain spells might be sprinkled on objects to stick them to others while some (Again, depending on the result) could be poured on an object to transfer the results into it. These effects, pending upon the spell, last until either the magic loses its potency or the finished product of the method disappears. The spell is mostly fuelled by the ingredients and the method. If you mix the same ingredients in a different way, it'll yield different results; again, just like cooking. Each spell has to be approved, like normal magic, beforehand; the approval must include the ingredients, method and method of augmentation. These spells have almost no combat uses, so the creator suffers little physical effects - admittedly they might not get much exercise due to the amount of time put into learning it, but other then that the effects are minimal. The practical uses for it, however, are nearly limitless. Spell possibilities include magical superglue (reasonably, of course), spells to aid in someone's everyday work (Who doesn't want a magical inkwell that produces different coloured ink every time you dip a quill in it?) and such. Note that practical magic is not alchemy. While similar in some regards, the two have a few drastic differences. Practical magic is very, very different because it deals with mana. Alchemy is basically chemistry; practical magic is manipulating the mana of outside objects to create a desired effect. These effects are not chemically possible without the manipulation of mana.
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