Spell Pronunciation Sheets in my Magic Book

For the past couple of years, I have been creating a Magic book. See the other 2 posts:

• A Book of Magic
• More Pages in my Magic Book

As well as filling in the main pages of the book, I have created loose sheets inside, just like Merlin's magic book.




















   Here is a sheet about the Sorcerer's Chime, a totem of Healing which Alice used in series 3 episode 9, Love in a time of Dragons. I keep it folded up somewhere in the Healing section. If you want to know what the symbol means, go to "More Pages in My Magic Book" (link above).
 

And here is the spell which Mordred and Morgana used in series 5 episode 12 to launch a fire bomb at a town in the Kingdom of Camelot, when they were at last united in evil, as the prophets foretold.
"Thurh minum gewealde on thinum maegen geclippath we thone lieg the ealla awestath!"

But t is not just spells I use these sheets for: at the back of the book, there is a pocket where I keep sheets of pronunciation guides for difficult spells.

You will notice in the book, that near to long, difficult spells, there are numbers. That number corresponds with the relative pronunciation guide at the back of the book - and it is also the spell number for when it appeared in the show!

For example, here is a Sidhe spell and guide:




So that's the latest that is going on in my Magic book!

Here's a sneak peak at what I am working on next:

More Pages in My Magic Book

A while ago, you may remember I wrote a post called A Book of Magic, which was about the magic book I am creating filled with all the Merlin spells! It wasn't finished then, and it still isn't now! I have been working on this for about 2 years! But I don't want to rush it: It is special to me.

Here are the pages I have finished since the last post:

I have finished the healing spells section!





















The left hand page has the healing spell which Gaius used in series 1 "The poisoned Chalice", and the right hand page has the Healing spell which Merlin used on Uther while he was disguised.




And here is a healing spell which can be extended: You can either say only the top half :

"Ic the thurhaele thinu licsar"

...or you can say the top half, then continue to chant your way through to the last half:

"Ic the thurhaele thinu licsar mid tham sundorcraeft thaere ealdan ae!"











<<<This spell is unfortunately incorrect, as I wrote it before I re-watched the episode and realised that the spell was pronounced differently, meaning it would be spelt differently.

It is actually pronounced:
"Hurouf fram biste reo Framuman".

The episode didn't provide subtitles, so I have to guess at the spelling!

The other spells are correct.

You will see that usually instead of descriptions of what each spell does, I have put symbols instead. Here are their meanings:





















The reason for the bird icon is because of this:

"Thurhaele" healing spell in Merlin's Spell Book

Do you see the birds in the tree? I needed a symbol that didn't really mean anything much, but was still linked to Merlin in some way, however small the link!

After the healing spell section, I made a section about the Sidhe.






































Again, you see I try to use illustrations rather than descriptions in my spell book.

I am currently working on the enchantments section. Here are the pages I have completed so far:

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Here, above, are the symbols for this section.

And here are two pages which I rather think are too crowded. They have love enchantments written on them, with symbols instead of too much descriptions.

So that's all that I've done since the last time! Has anyone else made, or is anyone making, a spell book?

A Book of Magic

When I first started watching Merlin, I became fascinated with the spells, and wanted to learn them all, so I decided to create a spell book listing every single one of them.
I found a few collections of spells online on websites like wiki, but there were hardly any pronunciations to go with them, and my computer was very slow-loading.


Instead, I decided to watch the entirety of Merlin series 1-5, and write down the spells from every single episode.

Although I LOVE watching Merlin, this was still quite a lengthy task to complete!
Whenever there was a spell, I would turn on the subtitles and scribble down the spell, then replay the scene and listen for the pronunciation. I'd write down what the spell does, or what it was meant to do, and who performed it. I would also number the spell.
As I continued to watch, I found that many of the spells did not have subtitles, it just said: (chants spell), so I had to guess or create my own spellings based on the grammar I had picked up on.

This is how I got all the spells for The Merlin Mega Fan Website, so I am sorry if most of them are incorrect! So far, I have uploaded 65 spells - all of series 1.

A few months later, I had the complete collection of Merlin spells scribbled down in my notebook, written down in the order in which they appeared on the show, all cataloged and numbered.
By then I had memorised about 200 out of 262 of them.

So I had my notebook filled with spells... but I wanted it to feel special and, well, magical, and this list didn't.
I thought about Merlin's own book of magic which Gaius had given him (in episode one series one in case anyone's wondering), and decided I wanted a book similar to that, with beautiful coloured illustrations, swirly calligraphy, and a medieval look about it.

My spell book

Then I found a collection of leather-effect notebooks in WHSmith which I liked the look of, and I picked out this one, which I decided to make into my spell book.

Once I had decided to do this, the first step was to organise all the spells into categories: fire spells, water spells etc...

After I had organised enough to start, I got gel-pens and fineliners and pencils all in a wide variety of different colours (I love being creative!) and began!

At first, I would lightly sketch in pencil what I wanted on each page, so I could see the layout without anything being permanent. Once I was happy with it, I would go around the pencil with fineliners, and then after rubbing the pencil out, I added some details in gel-pen.

Here are a few of the pages:

This is a page in the "fire spells" section.

On this page, like most in the book, I've used mainly illustrations to explain what the spells do, or what they effect.

I liked this spell book a lot better than my scribbly notebook list!

It was more organised, and it had a (for want of a better word) nicer layout.

I would use words as well as using illustrations, and I would sometimes put spells into a table if they did or effected the same thing, or if they could be used in the same way.

I did this on a page in the "Water spells" section.

Every few pages, at the end of each section, I would add a pronunciation paragraph, explaining a few things about the grammar I had learned, or patterns I had found. They are probably very inaccurate, as I'm not an expert, and learned old english only from watching Merlin!

Sometimes, I would also write pronunciation in black underneath difficult spells, as you can see opposite.

 Usually I could fit up to 4 or 5 short spells onto one page, but for the longer spells, like the ageing spell (Mict degena...), it would use up an entire page, which made a change in the layout, and allowed me to arrange the words into proper paragraphs.
This is what I did for "The Sleep Song" which is actually the Witches Aria, composed by Rob Lane and/or other Merlin composers.

I also wrote out the sheet music for the song onto the page opposite!








Here are a few more images of pages in my book.

On this page, I've put the three spells Grunhilda the pixie used to break out of the vaults in series 3 episode 6, using illustrations again to show what the spells do.










And here I've used pictures again.
This is the spell that Merlin used to make the candle lights float for Freya in series 2 ep.9

... And here's the first page in the "Healing Spells" section, where I've put the base healing spell/s into a table.

 I call them base healing spells because they are used in nearly every healing spell in Merlin! For example: "Ic the Thurhaele thinu licsar!" "Ic pe Purhaele pinu licsar mid paem sundorcraef thaere ealdon e!"

I started this book months ago, and it still isn't finished! It keeps me occupied during my spare time, but I haven't really HAD the time to work on it!

If you're ever wondering what to do now Merlin's finished, I would recommend this project!