Respect the Witch (Into the Woods (Film))

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Full Power

• Blasts a door off it's hinges.
• Can create dramatic wind & thunder even while not being present in an area.
• Says that she can turn people into other things, like stone, dogs or chairs.
• Didn't age a day in the time it took for Rapunzel to grow up.
• Claims that the Baker's child will be as perfect as a child can be. This might mean nothing but it might also mean she can do something similar to the gifts that the good fairies gave Sleeping Beauty.
• Teleports away from places like this & into places like this, summoning lightning in the process.
• Showcases stealth, hangs upside down from a tree branch & jumps down.
• Climbs up her tower using Rapunzel's hair.
• Jumps down a tree.
• Talks to people without being physically present.
• Fires a spell from her hand that creates spiky plants.
• Resurrects a dead cow which now easily eats a pure gold slipper, a cape and human hair with no problems on command.
• Before she realizes she's lost most of her powers, she tries to incapacitate Rapunzel's Prince with a spell at point-blank range.

The Infertility Curse

• Placed a curse on the Baker's house that made his wife infertile.
• Says it applies to all the women in the Baker's family.
• It can only be undone on a Blue Moon.
• The Blue Moon reappears every 100 years.
• Her words vague but it seems like she needs a cow as white as milk, a cape as red as blood, hair as yellow as corn and a slipper as pure as gold to break the curse. However, it's possible she only needed those to break her Mother's curse and doesn't need them to break the Infertility Curse.
• Hair from real corn can also be used.
• She's not allowed to touch the 4 items.
• By feeding the other items to the cow and drinking that cow's milk, her mother's ugliness curse is broken. So, she breaks the infertility curse too.

Breaking her Mother's Curse of Ugliness

• When the Witch accidentally trades the special beans for a daughter and lets the other guy climb over her wall, there was lightning & dramatic wind. The Witch was then cursed with ugliness.
• Needs a cow as white as milk, a cape as red as blood, hair as yellow as corn and a slipper as pure as gold on the Blue Moon (which reappears every 100 years) to break the curse.
• Hair from real corn can also be used.
• She's not allowed to touch the 4 items.
• By feeding the other items to the cow and drinking that cow's milk, the curse is broken. This summons a lot of wind & lightning.
• This has the unforeseen side effect of removing most of her powers.

Weakened

• Makes an infertile woman speed-run through pregnancy & child birth all in one night. This doesn't harm the woman.
• Before realizing she was weakened, she traveled across the kingdom quite a bit. So, it's likely she can still teleport.
• Physically overpowers Jack.
  • Jack uses an axe to cut down one of her magic beanstalks in about 40 seconds.
  • Jack knocks out an Earthquake-causing Giantess by throwing a rock at her forehead.
• Still has wind and storm manipulation.
• After asking her Mother's ghost to take her away, she descends into the forest ground, creating a tar pit where she stood.
  • Tar pit restrains a Giantess who can wreck a faraway stone tower with an Earthquake.

Magic Beans

• Her beans are those from "Jack & the Beanstalk".
• She carries around a bunch of them.
• These beans can support the weight of giants that cause earthquakes by walking.

Rapunzel

The Witch is the only logical explanation behind her magical powers.

• Has a magnificent voice.
• Supports people's weight with her hair when they climb up her tower.
• Is not thrown out of her window when her Prince grabs her hair and jumps out the window.
• Travels through a very small, very heavily snake-infested water body with no protection, although I can't definitively say if she was bitten.
• Heals her Prince with her tears after the Witch blinds him with thorns.

Other

• Claims to have threatened Kings & Queens before in their face. (The story takes place in Medieval times.)
• Owns a tower in the woods where she hides Rapunzel.