In the 1920s, the witch Nell created a painting with this incantation as an underwriting that only Malcolm could read with his power of X-Ray Vision. When he read the incantation, he was sucked into the painting and remained trapped there for over seventy years. All this time, his girlfriend Jane Franklin, another warlock, tried to free him from the curse, though she required the Charmed Ones. When she found them, she brought the painting to Buckland Auction House to be appraised by Prue Halliwell, hoping that she would find the uderwriting and free Malcolm.