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Notice: This article uses content directly taken from the Ancestral Magic article at the Vampire Diaries Wiki, and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike License.

Ancestral Magic is an extremely powerful form of witchcraft that draws on the power of consecrated witches and was commonly practiced among the witches of New Orleans. In many ways, it's similar to spirit magic; however, ancestral magic is limited to the area where the witch's ancestors were buried. Without access to the remains, or to the earth in which they're consecrated, witches who practice ancestral magic are left without such power and will have to seek other forms of magic. Therefore, many ancestral witches are committed to their families and their coven, and the bloodlines of the witch families in the community typically went back centuries.

In New Orleans, witches drew upon the the Ancestors, the totality of all witches who had been consecrated into New Orleans soil and remained attached to the land as spirits. Since the release of the Ancestors from the Ancestral Well, New Orleans witches can no longer practice ancestral magic.

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