Potioncraft

Potioncraft
Type of Magic
General Information
Origin:	Unknown
Worlds:	Enchanted Forest Land Without Magic Agrabah Underworld Wonderland Land of Untold Stories Oz
Usage Information
Effects:	See "Uses"
Used by:	See "Practitioners"
Show Information
First appearance:	"The Thing You Love Most"
Latest appearance:	"The Final Battle Part 2"
Relevant Pages

Potioncraft is a type of magic featured on ABC's Once Upon a Time and Once Upon a Time in Wonderland. It first appears in the second episode of the first season of Once Upon a Time.

Uses

Potioncraft is the magical ability to create liquid substances for various purposes by combining a set of obtainable ingredients. Such potions can be replicated when the user possesses skill and the recipe, or a sample of the potion.

Known Practitioners

• Belle French
• Cora †
• David Nolan
• Evil Queen/Regina Mills
• Emma Swan
• Fendrake the Healer †
• Dr. Jekyll †
• Jafar
• King Arthur †
• Maleficent
• Merlin †
• Mother Superior
• Rumplestiltskin/Mr. Gold
• Sisters of Saint Meissa
• Zelena

Known Potions

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Reason: Freezing potion and Zelena's potion in The Song in Your Heart

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• De-cloaking Potion - Reverses the effects of a glamour spell ("Siege Perilous")
• Defense Potion - Used for fighting against Ingrid's spell of shattered sight. Its actual effects against the spell are not fully conclusive since the potion was never completed. ("Shattered Sight")
• Doppelganger Potion - Used for making the user look identical to another person. ("Bad Blood")
• Enlarging Potion - Used for making an item bigger in size. It's not known if the effect is permanent or temporary. ("Poor Unfortunate Soul")
• Infertility Potion - Used for making someone unable to conceive a child. After consumption, the user becomes infertile, and the only known way to reverse it is drinking water from Lake Nostos. ("Lady of the Lake")
• Locator Potion - Used for finding someone by enchanting an item belonging to the person. ("We Are Both" et al.)
• Memory Potion - Used for erasing or regaining memories. It is also known as a forgetting potion. ("7:15 A.M." et al.)
• Reversal Potion - It was presumably used to stop August's transformation into wood, but he never had the chance to actually test it out. ("Selfless, Brave and True")
• Tethering Potion - Used to tether an object to a human soul in order to control them. ("Nimue")
• Transformation Potion - Used to transform someone into an animal or thing; the only ones mentioned are rat, toad and puppet. ("That Still Small Voice", "The Apprentice", "Unforgiven")
• True Love Potion - Used on the Dark Curse scroll as a safety measure so only a savior born from true love can break the curse. It was also combined with the waters of the wishing well to bring magic to Storybrooke. ("A Land Without Magic")

Known Potion Ingredients

• Adder's fork (snake tongue) - Unknown potion used to locate Aladdin ("Heartless")
• Blood - Doppelganger Potion. Blood from the person the user wants to become. ("Bad Blood")
• Dragon scale - Memory potion. ("A Curious Thing")
• Eye of newt ("The Apprentice")
• Hair
  • Locks of hair of those with the darkest souls - Dark Curse ("The Thing You Love Most")
  • Hairs of people who share true love - True Love Potion ("Heart of Darkness")
  • Strands of hair of the target - Memory Potions ("Heart of Darkness")
  • Hairs of someone who is living their past life - Memory Potions ("And Straight On 'Til Morning")
• Goat tears - Potion for breaking a Sleeping Curse ("Mother's Little Helper," "Awake")
• Enchanted Hearts
  • The Heart of the thing you love most - Dark Curse ("The Thing You Love Most," "A Curious Thing," "The New Neverland," "Broken Heart")
• Lizard horn ("The Final Battle Part 1")
• Lizard's maw ("The Apprentice")
• Magic Mushrooms - Enlarging Potion (only known ingredient) ("Poor Unfortunate Soul")
• Otter spleen - Potion for breaking a Sleeping Curse ("Mother's Little Helper," "Awake")
• Shard remnants of the Snow Queen's mirror - Defense Potion for countering Ingrid's spell) ("Fall")
• Tongue of newt - Potion for breaking a Sleeping Curse ("Mother's Little Helper")
• Transformation Potion - Depending on type of transformation. Created by Rumplestiltskin using a gold thread with an unknown liquid to transform Jiminy's parents into puppets. Also created by him to transform the Apprentice into a rat. ("That Still Small Voice")
• Water - Only ingredient in one type of Memory Potion ("7:15 A.M.")
  • Water from the Lethe - Used in another type of Memory Potion. ("Sisters")
• Witchbane - Unknown potion for freeing someone from a tree. ("Siege Perilous")
• Wolf's blood - Memory Potions ("A Curious Thing")

Trivia

• On-Screen Notes
• Cultural References

On-Screen Notes

• A page in Gideon's spell book reads:

An enchanted blade may ebb and wane
in time with scores of differing hands on
the hilt. Like an oft blood letted vein, energy
escapes. To invigorate the instrument in
question, the practitioner should find the smith
who originally forged the blade. Some blood of
that might will needed [sic] to commence the great
work.
Make a magic circle with rope and estab-
lish the four quarters with a dedication to
the old ones. Mix the blood of the smith
with some wolfsbane and some juniper berries.
Pour this concoction into a cauldron and
stir it in a deasil motion on a clear evening
when the moon is waxing gibbous.
When the concoction has cooled, dip the blade
into the cauldron while willing the lost magic
to return.
("Ill-Boding Patterns")

• According to magic lore, wolfsbane can be used to prevent shapeshifting, and has traditionally been used to protect homes from werewolves. Bundles of wolfsbane can be placed around barns and pastures to protect livestock from predators (this requires taking care that the livestock have no access to the plant, as wolfsbane is highly poisonous, and ingesting even a small amount can kill you). It can also be used to bring harm to another by creating "elf bolts" of sharpened flint dipped in wolfsbane juice and using it to pierce a poppet for the victim.

Popular Culture

• The herb that Regina is trying to find for a potion to free Merlin, is called witchbane. During the middle ages, witchbane was a nickname for the rue herb, because people carried them to ward off witches. In magic lore, the rue herb is often used in spells of protection against witchcraft and bad luck. It can be used for hex breaking and warding off the evil eye, and is a classic herb for protection magic and to increase one's psychic powers. It is also used in some love spells. ("Siege Perilous")

Appearances

Once Upon a Time: Season One
"Pilot":	"The Thing You Love Most":	"Snow Falls":	"The Price of Gold":	"That Still Small Voice":	"The Shepherd":	"The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter":	"Desperate Souls":	"True North":	"7:15 A.M.":	"Fruit of the Poisonous Tree":
Absent	Appears	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Appears	Absent
"Skin Deep":	"What Happened to Frederick":	"Dreamy":	"Red-Handed":	"Heart of Darkness":	"Hat Trick":	"The Stable Boy":	"The Return":	"The Stranger":	"An Apple Red as Blood":	"A Land Without Magic":
Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Mentioned	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Appears

Once Upon a Time: Season Two
"Broken":	"We Are Both":	"Lady of the Lake":	"The Crocodile":	"The Doctor":	"Tallahassee":	"Child of the Moon":	"Into the Deep":	"Queen of Hearts":	"The Cricket Game":	"The Outsider":
Mentioned	Appears	Absent	Appears	Absent	Absent	Appears	Appears	Absent	Absent	Mentioned
"In the Name of the Brother":	"Tiny":	"Manhattan":	"The Queen Is Dead":	"The Miller's Daughter":	"Welcome to Storybrooke":	"Selfless, Brave and True":	"Lacey":	"The Evil Queen":	"Second Star to the Right":	"And Straight On 'Til Morning":
Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Mentioned

Once Upon a Time: Season Three
"The Heart of the Truest Believer":	"Lost Girl":	"Quite a Common Fairy":	"Nasty Habits":	"Good Form":	"Ariel":	"Dark Hollow":	"Think Lovely Thoughts":	"Save Henry":	"The New Neverland":	"Going Home":
Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Appears	Absent	Absent	Mentioned
"New York City Serenade":	"Witch Hunt":	"The Tower":	"Quiet Minds":	"It's Not Easy Being Green":	"The Jolly Roger":	"Bleeding Through":	"A Curious Thing":	"Kansas":	"Snow Drifts":	"There's No Place Like Home":
Appears	Absent	Absent	Absent	Appears	Absent	Appears	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent

Once Upon a Time: Season Four
"A Tale of Two Sisters":	"White Out":	"Rocky Road":	"The Apprentice":	"Breaking Glass":	"Family Business":	"The Snow Queen":	"Smash the Mirror":	"Fall":	"Shattered Sight":	"Heroes and Villains":
Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Mentioned	Absent	Appears	Absent	Absent
"Darkness on the Edge of Town":	"Unforgiven":	"Enter the Dragon":	"Poor Unfortunate Soul":	"Best Laid Plans":	"Heart of Gold":	"Sympathy for the De Vil":	"Lily":	"Mother":	"Operation Mongoose Part 1":	"Operation Mongoose Part 2":
Absent	Absent	Absent	Appears	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Appears	Absent	Absent

Once Upon a Time: Season Five
"The Dark Swan":	"The Price":	"Siege Perilous":	"The Broken Kingdom":	"Dreamcatcher":	"The Bear and the Bow":	"Nimue":	"Birth":	"The Bear King":	"Broken Heart":	"Swan Song":
Absent	Absent	Appears	Absent	Appears	Appears	Appears	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent
"Souls of the Departed":	"Labor of Love":	"Devil's Due":	"The Brothers Jones":	"Our Decay":	"Her Handsome Hero":	"Ruby Slippers":	"Sisters":	"Firebird":	"Last Rites":	"Only You":	"An Untold Story":
Absent	Absent	Appears	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Appears	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent

Once Upon a Time: Season Six
"The Savior":	"A Bitter Draught":	"The Other Shoe":	"Strange Case":	"Street Rats":	"Dark Waters":	"Heartless":	"I'll Be Your Mirror":	"Changelings":	"Wish You Were Here":	"Tougher Than the Rest":
Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Appears	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent
"Murder Most Foul":	"Ill-Boding Patterns":	"Page 23":	"A Wondrous Place":	"Mother's Little Helper":	"Awake":	"Where Bluebirds Fly":	"The Black Fairy":	"The Song in Your Heart":	"The Final Battle Part 1":	"The Final Battle Part 2":
Appears	Appears	Absent	Absent	Appears	Absent	Absent	Absent	Appears	Absent	Appears

Once Upon a Time in Wonderland
"Down the Rabbit Hole":	"Trust Me":	"Forget Me Not":	"The Serpent":	"Heart of Stone":	"Who's Alice":	"Bad Blood":
Mentioned	Absent	Absent	Appears	Absent	Absent	Appears
"Home":	"Nothing to Fear":	"Dirty Little Secrets":	"Heart of the Matter":	"To Catch a Thief":	"And They Lived...":
Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent

Once Upon a Time: Specials
"Magic is Coming":	"The Price of Magic":	"Journey to Neverland":	"Wicked is Coming":	"Storybrooke Has Frozen Over":
Archive	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent
"Secrets of Storybrooke":	"Dark Swan Rises":	"Evil Reigns Once More":	"The Final Battle Begins":
Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent

Other Appearances

Potioncraft is featured in Once Upon a Time's Season One novelization, Reawakened: A Once Upon a Time Tale. Potions are mentioned in the Underworld Storybook in "Firebird".

Note: "Archive" denotes archive footage.

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