Line #6 Literature/TheTaleOfMagic


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2	A Tale of Magic is a {{Prequel}} series to the book series ''Literature/TheLandOfStories.'' They are both written by Creator/ChrisColfer.
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4	In the Southern Kingdom, magic and women reading is outlawed. This is a problem for Brystal Evergreen, a fourteen year old {{Bookworm}} who discovers she is magical through a book. When she is exposed, [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything she’s sent to a “correctional facility” to cure her of her “condition.”]] But then, Madame Weatherberry comes along, stating she has permission from the king to take Brystal to [[WizardingSchool a school for magic.]] Brystal goes to the school with her classmates [[MakingASplash Skylene]], [[AnimalThemedSuperbeing Tangerina]], [[PlayingWithFire Xanthous]], and [[TokenEvilTeammate Lucy]]. All seems to be going well until Madame Weatherberry embarks on a mission, and doesn’t return...
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6	Currently, there are three released novels: ''A Tale of Magic'', ''A Tale of Witchcraft'', and ''A Tale of Sorcery''.
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8	!!Tropes:
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11	* AbusiveParents:
12	** Most magical children, especially ones with abilities prevalent from birth, are abandoned or killed.
13	** Tangerina, Skylene, and Emeralda were all abandoned by their biological families.
14	** Brystal’s father orders his daughter to be nothing but an obedient housewife. [[ThatThingIsNotMyChild He disowns her when learning she’s a fairy.]]
15	** The father of Xanthous resented him because his mother had a DeathByChildbirth. [[spoiler: He also beat his own son for [[DisproportionateRetribution playing with dolls.]]]]
16	* AccidentalMisnaming: Lucy calls Madame Weatherberry, ‘Madame Whateverberry’ when they first meet. Granted, this probably wasn’t accidental.
17	* AdaptationalAttractiveness: Stitches in the book is stated to have an abnormally large mouth and her eyes are not only mismatched in color but in shape. On the cover for the book, she has none of those things except for the heterochromia.
18	* AerithAndBob:
19	** Lucy is the most straightforward example, with her currently being the only main character with a relatively common name.
20	** Brystal’s middle name and her mother’s first is Lynn.
21	** Celeste is downplayed. It’s still pretty rare, but you’d have a better chance of coming across someone named that rather than a Tangerina.
22	** Barrie’s wife is named Penny.
23	* AlliterativeFamily: All of the Evergreen siblings names start with B.
24	* AlliterativeName:
25	** The first letter of the monarchs names correspond with the first letter of their kingdom. The only exception is King Champion, ruler of the Southern Kingdom...[[DownplayedTrope which later gets nicknamed the Charming kingdom.]]
26	** Tangerina’s first and last name both start with T.
27	** All of the products Rosette’s family sells are this.
28	** Mistress Mara. Lucy calls her ‘Double-Em’ once and she immediately turns it down.
29	* AnalogyBackfire: Lucy says Brystal can’t fire her from the council and uses an example from her past as a CircusBrat as an example: one troll in a music group kept eating the fans, so they kicked him out. But without him, the music suffered, and people stopped showing up. Brystal then points out an alternative Lucy hadn’t considered: maybe people stopping showing up because they were being eaten.
30	* AndThatLittleGirlWasMe: [[spoiler: It’s revealed Madame Weatherberry’s story about the witch and Horence was actually her story.]]
31	* AnimalThemedSuperbeing: Tangerina's specialty is to control bees. Her hair is a literal bee hive with real bees living inside it.
32	* ArmorPiercingResponse: [[spoiler: Lucy tells Brystal that she’s making them train as if she’s preparing them for war. Brystal then yells at her that maybe they are. This is the first time the students learn the true dangers Madame Weatherberry is in.]]
33	* AnimalMotif: Lucy is associated with birds because she later becomes Mother Goose.
34	* AntiMagic: Bloodstone is the only thing Brystal’s ever witnessed that can cut through her magical barrier.
35	* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: When Lucy suggest horrible things that could have happened with her reciting the witchcraft incantation, she puts Xanthous turning inside out next to Tangerina multiplying.
36	* AscendedExtra: The main characters of the series are the Fairy Council, who had a much smaller role in the original series.
37	* AsleepInClass: After staying up virtually all night reading, Brystal finds ways to hide the fact that she’s sleeping in class to avoid severe sleep deprivation.
38	* BackFromTheDead: Horence was a man who had a ForbiddenLove with a witch. When this was discovered, he was murdered. The witch, in her heartbreak, tried to bring him back, but only succeeded in bringing back a shell of him.
39	* BadBedroomBadLife:
40	** Brystal’s room at the correctional facility is the size of a closet. In contrast, her room at the academy literally changes to suit her as much as possible.
41	** [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]] with Brystal’s childhood room. No mention of it being bad is made in the first book, but in the second, Brystal is shocked at how she never noticed how cold and small it was. She then concludes that the differences may be more metaphorical than literal.
42	* BadPeopleAbuseAnimals: At the correctional facility, the chickens are over cooped and the cows are malnourished.
43	* BaitAndSwitch:
44	** Mistress Mara says Lucy Goose’s name, [[RunningGag and she starts to tell her it’s pronounced Goo-Say]] before realizing she pronounced it right.
45	** Stitches’s RunningGag is basically this. She gives a list of a bunch of terrible things that happened to her before revealing she actually loved it.
46	* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Brystal tells her brother she illegally read and performed magic because she wanted life to be different. Brooks then tells her, who could very likely be in prison for the rest of her life, she got her wish.
47	* BerserkButton:
48	** Don’t tell Madame Weatherberry that magic is a choice. [[spoiler: It brings out the Snow Queen.]]
49	** Women correcting men is this for Brystal’s father.
50	* BigDamPlot: The first chapter of the second book focuses on how the Western Kingdom’s dam has a leak and the Fairy Council fixing it. It’s a very quick fix until Lucy uses her speciality for trouble to break the entire dam. Five out of the six Fairy Council use all their effort to repair the dam, the only one excluded being Lucy for...obvious reasons.
51	* ABirthdayNotABreak:
52	** Lucy’s parents abandon her at the academy on her thirteenth birthday.
53	** On one of Stitches’s birthdays, [[ExaggeratedTrope her family was mauled to death by bears, then the bears were shot by hunters, then the hunters were attacked by wolves. She had to hide in a hollow log for nineteen hours until it was safe to come out.]] When Lucy tells her how sorry she is, Stitches tells her to not be as [[NightmareFetishist it was the best day of her life.]]
54	* BlatantLies:
55	** Brystal tries to tell her mother the reason the reason why a candle was burning in her room all night is because she’s afraid of the dark. Her mother recognizes her lie and knows the truth: she was up all night reading books.
56	** The dwarves try to deny a child is in the mine, despite it showing up on the MagicMap.
57	** Lucy says the reason she was hiding wasn’t to avoid the lessons, but because she thinks she saw her lucky shamrock...that she lost four years ago.
58	* BlessedWithSuck: Magic is referred to as a gift, but it comes with...heavy social stigma, to put it lightly. Magic is also uncontrollable at first, and this can have negative consequences; Xanthous caused his mother to have a DeathByChildbirth because giving birth to him burned her so badly.
59	* BookBurning: One of the banned books is mentioned to have ashes on it.
60	* BookcasePassage: The banned books are hidden behind a bookcase.
61	* {{Bookworm}}: Brystal loves reading so much she viewed it as the only joy in her life for fourteen years.
62	* BrainyBrunette: Brystal has dark brown hair and [[NotLikeOtherGirls is seemingly the only girl in her town who wants to be something other than a wife and mother.]]
63	* BrickJoke: Around the middle of the second book, Stitches asks Lucy if she wants to know why she’s called Stitches, which Lucy declines. [[spoiler: Near the end, Stitches creates a voodoo doll of one of the soldiers, and gleefully proclaims that’s why people call her Stitches.]]
64	* ButForMeItWasTuesday: The Edgars held Pip as a prisoner in their facility for basically her entire life. When she’s about to get magically transported to the people who have caused her the most harm, she knows exactly who it’ll take her. When she’s teleported to the Edgars, they can’t tell her apart from all the other countless girls they’ve abused. Pip becomes overcome by the realization that these people caused her years of misery and scars that will never heal...and they don’t even remember her name. Her rage is what allows her to cast a vex.
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66	[[folder:C-O]]
67	* CallForward:
68	** Madame Weatherberry tells Brystal’s parents that she’ll be a sign of inspiration and kindness in the future. This is fulfilled when she becomes the Fairy Godmother.
69	** Lucy makes multiple references to birds because she later becomes Mother Goose.
70	** A village in the Northern Kingdom, which Snow White will rule in the future, is named “Appleton.”
71	** The last name of Barrie’s wife is Charming.
72	** Lucy often gives people an InSeriesNickname, a quirk she still has in the Land of Stories.
73	** Rat Mary is mentioned to be one of the witches Mistress Mara transformed into a lynx.
74	** When Brystal is [[spoiler: between life and death,]] she sees unplanted trees labeled with the names of her children, grandchildren, Ezmia. Mistress Mara tells her the trees will be people she’ll meet later in life [[spoiler: if she survives.]]
75	* CerebusRetcon: Spanky's mole people conspiracy theory is introduced as a gag, but later [[spoiler:Spanky dies because he wouldn't accept that the mole people weren't real.]]
76	* ChekhovsGun:
77	** [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded.]] The narration points out that Brooks’s ability to manipulate comes in handy for giving Brystal any hope to make it out of the courtroom alive.
78	** Brystal makes the chocolate cake she made for Barrie again for Lucy’s birthday. This strengths their relationship.
79	* ChekhovsGunman: [[spoiler: Mrs. Vee was so disturbed by the bloodstone arrow she had to resign from cooking indefinitely. When the Fairy Council comes to fight the Three Thirty-Three, Mrs. Vee returns, and uses her speciality with cooking to use culinary as weapons, causing them to win the fight.]]
80	* CircusBrat: Lucy spent the first thirteen years of her life in a traveling band.
81	* ConspiracyTheorist: Spanky spends his spare time trying to expose an AncientConspiracy of mole people that are behind wars and rigged elections. [[spoiler:They don't exist. Spanky made them up so he could blame them for all his problems.]]
82	* ContrivedCoincidence: What are the chances dwarves, a species that digs gems, would find an abandoned child with the magical ability to make gems?
83	* CrazyCatLady: Lucy says that, no matter what happens, she’s going to be one of these because she may be a witch. She doesn’t even like cats!
84	* CrystalDragonJesus: The religion that is mandated by all the officials in the series is clearly based off Christianity.
85	* CreepyDoll: Stitches has a doll motif going on and is intrigued by anything morbid. [[spoiler: Her true appearance is that of a doll, and she can make voodoos.]]
86	* CryingWolf: Barrie was told to always try and give maximum punishments to accused criminals. He follows this when setting a punishment, unaware that it’s for his sister. Brooks begs him not to, telling him he’ll regret it for the rest of his life. Barrie thinks his brother is trying to humiliate him by feeding him false information, like he had done earlier, so he goes through with his punishment.
87	* DarkerAndEdgier: The removal of fairy tales and the added stuff such as bigotry and mental health makes this series have a much bleaker tone than the original.
88	* DeathByChildbirth: Xanthous’s mother died giving birth to him due to burns.
89	* DidntSeeThatComing: When Brystal makes Lucy a cake, she didn’t think Lucy would realize the only way she could know it’s her birthday is if she was eavesdropping on her.
90	* DisproportionateRetribution: Mistress Mara turns students who misbehave into lynxes. This may not seem so bad, if it weren’t for the fact that the curse lasts for one hundred years.
91	* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything:
92	** Magic is considered a sin and a choice and is punishable by death in most areas. The main source of this claim is a religion that’s [[SarcasmMode completely coincidently]] similar to Christianity. [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conversion_therapy There’s also facilities meant to cure people of their magic.]]
93	** Brystal has a disorder that prevents her from performing magic the way she intended. [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyslexia It’s called magiclexia.]]
94	** In the sequel, Brystal struggles with feelings that she’s a failure. She constantly feels like she’s in a bad mood. [[spoiler: While it’s revealed she was cursed,]] the author has referred to Brystal’s struggles as her depression.
95	* DoubleTake: When Barrie is frantic about his wedding, he goes to his mother and rants, with a brief hello to the sister he hasn’t seen in a year...then he realizes his sister he hasn’t seen in a year is here.
96	* DragonTamer: The residents of the Dragon Keys, a dragon sanctuary.
97	* EvilMakesYouUgly: Carried on from the original series. The more witchcraft one performs, the more grotesque they become in appearance.
98	* EvilTeacher: Not only does Mistress Mara turn girls who misbehave into lynxes for one hundred years, [[spoiler: but she never cared about teaching in the first place; it was all a front for her plan with the Three Thirty-Three.]]
99	* EyesNeverLie: Brystal realizes [[spoiler: the Snow Queen is Madame Weatherberry after she looks into the Queen’s eyes and recognizes them as her teacher’s.]]
100	* FamilyEyeResemblance: Brystal and her father have the exact same eye shade and astigmatism.
101	* FantasticRacism:
102	** [[RainbowLens While it’s pretty obvious what exact metaphor bigotry towards magical people is supposed to be,]] but having magic in your veins is punishable by death.
103	** Any and all creatures deemed magical were exiled to the In Between or killed off.
104	* {{Fauxshadow}}: [[spoiler: An intentional version. Xanthous says the reason his father beat him was because he was doing a horrible thing he wasn’t supposed to do. What said thing was is a mystery for a good portion of the book. Instead of it being something like evil witchcraft, Xanthous was [[InTouchWithHisFeminineSide playing with dolls.]]]]
105	* FloatingContinent: The Alchemists' floating city. They can drive it around the world.
106	* ForbiddenLove: Relationships between magical beings and humans is either illegal or heavily stigmatized. Horence was a normal man who was killed for being in love with a witch.
107	* ForcedTransformation:
108	** Madame Weatherberry turns unicorns into mice and ogres into turtles.
109	** Brystal unintentionally reverses the aging process of a gryphon.
110	** Mistress Mara turns her students into lynxes for a hundred years if they misbehave.
111	* {{Foreshadowing}}: [[Foreshadowing/TheTaleOfMagic Has it’s own page.]]
112	* ForgotAboutHisPowers:
113	** Inverted. Xanthous is hesitant to shake Brystal’s hand when they first meet because he’s used to burying everything he touches, forgetting he had the Muter Metal on.
114	** When the students take the knocked out Mrs. Vee to bed, they physically carry her up the stairs, exhausting them all. Then they remember they could have used magic to get her up. Lampshaded by Xanthous, who says he “keeps forgetting that’s an option.”
115	* ForTheEvulz: It’s noted some of the chores at the facility don’t have a purpose, implying they’re just there to make the girls suffer for no reason.
116	* FrequentlyFullMoon: Averted. The ceremonies at Ravencrest are done during a full moon for tradition’s sake, but it’s acknowledged a full moon only comes once a month, and that some girls will have to take longer to be enrolled than others.
117	* FullMoonSilhouette: The cover of A Tale of Witchcraft has a full blood moon on it.
118	* FullNameUltimatum: Brystal is called “Brystal Lynn Evergreen” by her father when correcting Brooks. [[spoiler: He does this again after Brystal changes the law.]]
119	* GonnaNeedMoreX: [[spoiler: Lucy says this when all the magical people arrive to the academy at the end.]]
120	* GreenThumb:
121	** Rosette and her family’s speciality is gardening. However, as she points out, they don’t literally have green thumbs.
122	** Sprout’s speciality is gardening. [[spoiler: Her true appearance has transformed into having features of a plant.]]
123	* GrowsOnTrees:
124	** Madame Weatherberry’s carriage has a plant that grows breakfast items, like bagels.
125	** Rosette’s family have trees that grow pretty much anything.
126	* HappilyAdopted: Emeralda says she’s happy living with her adopted dwarf family.
127	* HatedByAll:
128	** In the first book, magic is considered a crime and a sin worthy of death, and some literally hunt magical people down for sport.
129	** The goal of the Three Thirty-Three is to make the magical community fall back to this. [[spoiler: They try to do this by framing Brystal for mass murder.]]
130	* HeroicSacrifice:
131	** Subverted. Brystal says she isn’t going to leave Bootstrap unless Madame Weatherberry frees the other girls as well. Pip then asks Brystal if she’s nuts and orders her to leave.
132	** Xanthous was planning to drown himself in a lake because he couldn’t think of anything else to stop the fire.
133	* HeWhoFightsMonsters: A common theme among the villains is that they hate how society hurts innocent people because of prejudice, and end up hurting innocent people to get justice.
134	* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: [[spoiler:One of the trials to get to the Sorcerers' Vault is facing "the deadliest creature." The trial room just has a mirror. The deadliest creatures are the humans doing the trial. A bit strange when you consider there's a goblin in the room too.]]
135	* HypocriticalHumor: The prologue for the first book states the monarchs are doing the very thing they’re accusing magical people of.
136	* IAmAMonster: Xanthous says that if Madame Weatherberry learns about his past, she’ll think he’s a monster, implying that he views himself this way.
137	* IcePalace: [[spoiler: The Snow Queen transforms the Northern Palace into this.]]
138	* AnIcePerson: [[spoiler: The Snow Queen and Madame Weatherberry are both a WeatherManipulator, including control over snow.]]
139	* ILied:
140	** [[spoiler: Madame Weatherberry lies about being optimistic. She’s been angry about society’s unacceptance of magical people her whole life.]]
141	** [[spoiler: Madame Weatherberry admits her story about her hand being burned was a lie to get Emeralda to the school.]]
142	* ImmortalityImmorality: The Immortal got her immortality by literally scamming [[{{TheGrimReaper}} Death]], and avoids suspicion by faking her death every few decades, then [[spoiler:killing one of her daughters and assuming her identity.]]
143	* InnocentlyInsensitive: When Lucy finds Brystal with the Snow Queen’s frozen body, she exclaims they’ve been given the perfect opportunity to kill her, [[spoiler: unaware she’d be killing what’s left of her former teacher. To add salt to the wound, Brystal just learned Madame Weatherberry seperated her soul from the Snow Queen. While they’re still connected, this is the first time Brystal learned she can talk to Madame Weatherberry without worrying about an evil queen possessing her. So now Lucy is going to make her lose that too.]]
144	* InSeriesNickname:
145	** Lucy briefly calls Xanthous “Xanny.”
146	** Emeralda is occasionally called “Em.”
147	* InsistentTerminology: Madame Weatherberry is very adamant that she and her students are fairies, not witches.
148	* InterspeciesAdoption: Emeralda, a human, is HappilyAdopted by her dwarf father.
149	* InTouchWithHisFeminineSide: Downplayed. [[spoiler: Xanthous enjoys playing with dolls, but besides this, has seemingly no interest in traditionally feminine things.]]
150	* IronicEcho: [[spoiler: Brystal’s father tells her to not address him as such, claims that [[ThatThingIsNotMyChild she’s no daughter of his. Later, Brystal says the same thing, but with father instead of daughter.]]]]
151	* ItIsDehumanizing: Brystal’s father has fully embraced ThatThingIsNotMyChild. He exclusively refers to his only daughter as ‘it’ when he sees her for the first time in a year.
152	* JekyllAndHyde: [[spoiler: The twist of the first book is that [[BigBad the Snow Queen]] is the SplitPersonality of [[BigGood Madame Weatherberry.]]]]
153	* JustSoStory: InUniverse, the folktale of The Daughter of Death. It goes that Death's daughter loved life so much that she avoided her father and learned to live forever, and Death missed her so much that he created tools like disease to help catch her. That's why some people live longer than others. [[spoiler:The story is true, though some of the details are off.]]
154	* LanguageOfTruth: The Tree of Truth can only speak the truth, albeit not having the ability to look into the future or people’s exact motivations.
155	* LethalChef: Subverted. Mrs. Vee jokes about her food being bad, but she’s actually great at it. In fact, it's her speciality.
156	* LiteralSplitPersonality: [[spoiler: Madame Weatherberry finds a way to split her soul from the Snow Queen.]]
157	* LoveAtFirstSight: When Brystal sees Seven at her brother’s wedding, she feels happy for the first time in weeks. She sits next to him at the wedding and they have an instant connection. [[spoiler: [[SubvertedTrope Turns out, Brystal had a curse put on her, and it only turned off when she was near Seven. She mistook feeling normal around Seven as love. Seven is also the Righteous King and wanted her dead the whole time.]]]]
158	* LovedByAll: It takes a single year for the world to go to hating fairies to absolutely adoring them. Dolls and costumes were made of them, for pete's sake. Brystal in particular is this, with being known as the Fairy Godmother and all. The goal of the Three Thirty-Three is to make her, and eventually all fairies, lose this adoredness.
159	* TheMakeover: [[spoiler: Mistress Mara’s necklaces not only hide the deformations witchcraft causes people, but they fix other insecurities a person had.]] Lucy thins out and claims she’s “practically a model” while she wears one.
160	* MakingASplash: Skylene’s speciality is controlling water.
161	* MagicMap: Madame Weatherberry has a map that keeps track of all magical people. The map is never wrong and updates.
162	* MeaningfulEcho:
163	** Madame Weatherberry recites a line from her book almost word for word, causing Brystal to realize she wrote it.
164	** Xanthous repeats to Brystal what she told him about secrets to get her to open up.
165	* MeaningfulName:
166	** [[spoiler: Madame Weatherberry’s first and last name have snow and weather in them, relating to how she’s a WeatherManipulator. Her middle name is more subtle, with it being Celeste, which is derived from celestial, which means relating to the sky.]]
167	** Tangerina, Skylene, Xanthous, and Emeralda’s names mean orange, blue, yellow, and green. This is a prominent color in their design and is later the color they represent in the rainbow Fairy Council.
168	*** Emeralda Stone is also a reference to her gem making speciality.
169	** Lucy’s magical specialty is trouble, so her name being the feminine form of the Devil’s is fitting.
170	** Rosette and her aunt’s name, Flora, refers to their speciality of gardening.
171	* MessOnAPlate: The meals they feed at the correctional facility is slop.
172	* MiddleNameBasis: [[spoiler: Madame Weatherberry’s first name isn’t Celeste: it’s Snowy.]]
173	* {{Mismeasurement}}: Lucy gave Mrs. Vee an inch of the sleeping salt instead of pinch.
174	* NoIndoorVoice:
175	** [[spoiler: The Snow Queen shouts most of her lines.]]
176	** Most of the conversations Brystal and her father have us through shouts.
177	* NotLikeOtherGirls: In the beginning, Brystal feels like the only girl in the world who cares about anything other than being an obedient wife.
178	* TheOneGuy: Xanthous is the only male at the main group. In the first book, he was the only male in the entire academy.
179	* OnePersonOnePower: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed.]] Every fairy can do numerous spells, but they have one “speciality.” A speciality comes so naturally, it can be uncontrollable.
180	* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: [[OverlyLongName Prince Gallivant Victorious Heroic Courageous Champion]] is known as Seven, a nickname that he got for being the seventh in line to rule.
181	* OnlyMostlyDead: [[spoiler: The Three Thirty-Three assumed Brystal died, when in reality, she was in the space between life and death, which Death let her go from.]]
182	* OurDemonsAreDifferent: The demons are shapeshifting creatures made of fire. They're actually a fairly peaceful species when they're not being magically forced to [[spoiler:cause massive fires that threaten all life on the planet.]]
183	* OverlyLongName: Seven’s full title is His Royal Highness Prince Gallivant Victorious Heroic Courageous Champion of Chariot Hills, Duke of Southwestington, Lord of Southeasternshire, Earl of Southnorthernburry [[ExaggeratedTrope and a bunch of other things he can’t remember at the moment.]]
184	[[/folder]]
185	[[folder:P-R]]
186	* PassingTheTorch:
187	** [[spoiler: Madame Weatherberry tells Brystal if she is unsuccessful in defeating the Snow Queen, then Brystal will have to start running the academy.]]
188	** [[spoiler: Brystal believes she will be killed in her surrender to the Three Thirty Three, so she tells Emeralda to take over the school and become the new Fairy Godmother after she’s gone.]]
189	* PersonalityPowers:
190	** Brystal, in a quite literal manner. She's so generous and quick to help people that compassion is literally her magical speciality.
191	** Lucy, a mischievous, wisecracking character, has her speciality be trouble.
192	* PlayingWithFire: Xanthous’s special talent is fire.
193	* PowerIncontinence: Most magical people’s speciality comes so naturally, it happens even if they don’t want it to.
194	* PowerNullifier: Since Xanthous has a particularly bad case of PowerIncontinence, he’s giving a medal that ceases his powers.
195	* PowerUpgradingDeformation: Carried over from the first series; witchcraft gradually distorts the user's physical appearance over time, so the more disgusting and inhuman a witch looks, the better at witchcraft they are.
196	* {{Prequel}}: The series takes place when the twins grandmother was a teenager.
197	* {{Pun}}: [[spoiler: Lucy says they’re going to kick some ice when they go to fight the Snow Queen.]]
198	* PunctuatedForEmphasis: When King Champion tells Madame Weatherberry magic is a choice, she [[spoiler: briefly turns into the Snow Queen as she]] yells “no it is not” one letter at a time to him.
199	* RaceAgainstTheClock: The SequelHook in A Tale if Witchcraft states that Brystal has one year to track and kill an immortal. If she fails, she dies.
200	* ARareSentence: [[spoiler: When Lucy is questioned how she knew Brystal was cursed,]] she says an invisible butler and a goat led her to a pumpkin in a witch’s closet.
201	--> '''Lucy:''' Wow, that just sounds crazy when you say it out loud.
202	* RealWomenDontWearDresses: The only girls who act stereotypically feminine are the mindless, supposedly brainwashed girls at the school for Future Wives and Mothers.
203	* RedEyesTakeWarning: [[spoiler: The Snow Queen’s eyes are red. This is more apparent in the fact that Madame Weatherberry’s eyes aren’t.]]
204	* RedHerring: [[spoiler: Some guessed Maximus wouldn’t be the Righteous King simply because having the supposed bigot who wants magical people to be discriminated against again be the twist villain would be too obvious. They were right: Seven is the Righteous King and framed his uncle.]]
205	* TheReveal:
206	** [[spoiler: For book one: Madame Weatherberry is the Snow Queen.]]
207	** [[spoiler: For book two: Seven is the Righteous King.]]
208	* RubberMan: Pip’s speciality. She can stretch her body like it’s made of clay. She uses this to get through the bars of her door at the facility to give Brystal some extra blankets.
209	* RunningGag:
210	** Lucy Goose’s last name is pronounced like Goo-Say, not like the animal. She will correct you if you get it wrong.
211	** Stitches describes a bunch of terrible things...when someone remarks on how terrible it is, she responds that she actually loved it.
212	[[/folder]]
213	[[folder:S-Z]]
214	* ScienceWizard: The Alchemists are magical people with a [[{{MasterOfOneMagic}} specialty]] for science.
215	* SecretIdentityIdentity: The last name ‘Bailey’, which Brystal goes by in the future, is revealed to be have been made up by her on the spot.
216	* SeriesContinuityError:
217	** The council of fairies was stated to be considerably younger than the Fairy Godmother and Mother Goose. Here, all of them are roughly similar ages.
218	** It’s established that Mother Goose and the Fairy Godmother fought dragons in the Dragon Age. Here, dragons are already treated as a long dead species.
219	** The Fairy Godmother got her title when she gave birth to her son. Here, Brystal adopts it when she was fourteen.
220	** The Snow Queen’s original past was that she used to be ruler of the Northern Kingdom. When she was dethroned, she cried so much her eyes froze and later melted, which is why she’s blind. Here, she was never a royal and was blinded so she could never find her way out of the cave she was imprisoned in. This could be [[HandWave hand-waved]] away, as the story may have become bastardized over the years [[spoiler: and no one was supposed to learn the Snow Queen was Madame Weatherberry, so a fake backstory had to be made up.]]
221	* SequelHook: A Tale of Witchcraft ends with Brystal being given the task to kill an immortal with a time limit of one year. If she fails, she dies.
222	* ShowWithinAShow: [[AlliterativeName The Tales of Tidbit Twitch]] is a book Brystal was just about to finish before her mother confiscated it. She later learns Tidbit is actually a book series and she reads them to her classmates.
223	* SlasherSmile: Mr. Edgar has a permanent one on his face.
224	* SlippingAMickey: [[spoiler: When the kids are leaving on their adventure, they give Mrs. Vee something that’ll knock her out so she doesn’t worry or chase after them.]]
225	* SlowClap: Parodied. [[spoiler: Lucy try’s to start one after Brystal’s TheReasonYouSuckSpeech. No one joins.]]
226	* SmellySkunk: [[spoiler: Witchcraft gives Pip Squeak some skunk features, including a tail. She uses her spray in battle and knocks soldiers unconscious. Lucy also calls her “Pip Stink” when they first realize she’s transformed into a skunk.]]
227	* SnakesAreSinister: One of the witches has the appearance of a snake.
228	* SpeechImpediment: Beebee has a stutter.
229	* SpeaksFluentAnimal: Tangerina can speak to pixies because their language is very similar to bees.
230	* TheSpeechless: Horence is incapable of speech ever since he was brought BackFromTheDead.
231	* SplitPersonality: [[spoiler: Madame Weatherberry turns into the Snow Queen. She views the Queen as such a different woman, Weatherberry refers to her in the third person.]]
232	* SplitPersonalityTakeover: [[spoiler: Subverted. Madame Weatherberry is going through this with the Snow Queen in the first book, with Brystal telling her to fight off the Snow Queen as long as she can. The Land of Stories seems to reveal that Madame Weather would eventually lose her battle. Instead, Madame Weatherberry figured out a spell to separate her soul from the Snow Queen. The two are still connected, but Madame Weatherberry is as free from the Queen as she possibly can be.]]
233	* SssssnakeTalk: The witch with the appearance of a snake talks like this.
234	* StayInTheKitchen: It’s illegal for women to read in the Southern Kingdom and they aren’t expected to be anything other than obedient wives and mothers. Brystal’s father believes this to such a degree he doesn’t think a woman should correct anything a man says; even if said thing was that the sky was purple.
235	* StrongFamilyResemblance: Brooks jokes that Maximus’s five sons look so identical he doubts even their father can tell them apart.
236	* SweetieGraffiti: [[spoiler: Horence and Madame Weatherberry carves their initials in a tree back when they were in love.]]
237	* SweetTooth: Lucy, despite being upset about being eavesdropped and left at the school, let’s Brystal stay because she brought her a cake.
238	* ThatThingIsNotMyChild: Brystal’s father orders her to stop addressing him as such, claiming that she’s no daughter of his.
239	* ThinkingOutLoud: Brystal’s habit of doing this is what caused her to recite the incantations and discover she is magical.
240	* ThisCannotBe: Lucy’s reaction when she realizes [[spoiler: Madame Weatherberry was the Snow Queen.]]
241	* TimeSkip: The sequel takes place a year after the first book.
242	* TinyGuyHugeGirl: Mr. Edgar is short while Mrs. Edgar is so abnormally tall she’s compared to a cucumber.
243	* TitleDrop: [[spoiler: “A Tale of Magic” are the last words in the first book.]]
244	* TokenEvilTeammate: Lucy, given that her specialty is trouble.
245	* TokenMinority: Emeralda is the only canon person of color in the main group.
246	* TwoBeingsOneBody: [[spoiler: Brystal points out that Madame Weatherberry didn’t have a SecretIdentity as the Snow Queen; the Snow Queen is instead a SplitPersonality that Madame Weatherberry is desperately trying to fight back. The next book reveals Madame Weatherberry has separated herself from the Queen as much as she possibly can.]]
247	* {{Unicorn}}: These are one of the animals banned. They also pull Madame Weatherberry’s carriage.
248	* WeatherManipulation: [[spoiler: This is Madame Weatherberry’s speciality.]]
249	* WeddingSmashers: Right after Barrie and Penny’s vows were about to be sealed, the Three Thirty-Three arrives trying to kill Brystal. They left such a destruction that even Brystal’s father asked her to repair their house with magic. The couple later officiate their marriage privately.
250	* WizardingSchool: Madame Weatherberry’s academy trains young fairies on their magic. Subverted that [[spoiler: not too many people come to the academy after magic is legalized, with it being noted it’s going to be hard for people to open up about something they’ve been taught to hide their entire lives. But then, according to Lucy, every magical person comes.]]
251	* WhamLine:
252	** [[spoiler: The Sorceress mentions she does both witchcraft and magic. She then says every magical being is capable of both.]]
253	** [[spoiler: After Brystal looks into [[EyesNeverLie the Snow Queen’s eyes,]] she gasps that she’s Madame Weatherberry.]]
254	* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: [[spoiler:The Immortal was born into slavery and traded between owners many times. She wants to get revenge on humanity by burning all their cities with demons.]]

Context Literature / TheTaleOfMagic