A Witch's Tail (Part 1)

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The Charmed Ones protect a mermaid from the Sea Hag in A Witch's Tail, Pt 1
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The Charmed Ones protect a mermaid from the Sea Hag in A Witch's Tail, Pt 1

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[edit] General information

[edit] Synopsis

The Charmed Ones are drawn to an innocent mermaid who must elicit a proclamation of love from her mortal boyfriend or lose her immortality to a water demon known as the Sea Hag. Determined to save the mermaid, the Charmed Ones cast a spell, unfortunately turning Phoebe into a mermaid. Confused and surprised by Cole's unexpected return from the Underworld, Phoebe finds a new sense of independence in the sea and refuses to return to land.

[edit] Book of Shadows

[edit] Enemies

  • Sea Hag: The Sea Hag is a hag-like demon who can control water. She can trap her victims in columns of water, and has control over environment, allowing her to cause rainstorms, hurricanes, and even tidal waves. She is a trickster, for she usually tricks mermaids who have grown tired of the sea and their immortality by offering them legs, so they can enter the mortal world; but at a price. Should the mermaid fail to find true love with a mortal, the Sea Hag takes her immortality. The Sea Hag was vanquished by Phoebe using an Auger Shell.
  • Necron: A Skeletal Being who hovers between life and death, this demon has the power to incinerate any living creature to feed on it’s life force. These stolen life force sustain them through centuries of unlife, though they require an unending supply of living essence to keep them from decaying further. Use caution when vanquishing as they are likely to create a massive explosion in the process.

[edit] Allies

  • Mermaids: Immortal magical undersea creatures who have human forms from the waist up, and fish form from the waist down.

[edit] Spells

  • To Locate the Sea Hag: Powers of the witches rise. Find a hag who speaks in lies. Balance chakras, focus chi. Lead us through the cruel, cruel sea.
  • To Find a Mermaid: Water rise up from the sea. Find the one who fled from thee. Follow where the winds are cold. Then fall tenfold like days of old.

[edit] Guest stars

[edit] Trivia

  • The episode title is a play on words to the film title A Knight's Tale.
  • This episode marks Holly Marie Combs and Alyssa Milano as being producers of the series.
  • Paige discovers that her mother Patty died from a water demon.
  • The scenes where Phoebe is swimming in the ocean were actually quite hard for actress Alyssa Milano to film because she has a fear of water.
  • Actress Alyssa Milano was the template used for the character Ariel in the Disney film The Little Mermaid, which this episode closely resembles also. The Necron minion also is a resemblance for Gollum from Lord of The Ring.
  • Rose McGowan dyed her hair from chocolate brown to vibrant red, and Leo makes a reference to it by saying that a botched spell blew up in her face and caused her hair to go red.
  • Piper gets a new car, a dark blue 2002 Jeep Grand Cherokee.
  • Phoebe gets a new car, a silver 2003 Mini Cooper.

[edit] International titles

  • French: Les sirènes de l'amour - 1ère partie
  • German: Der Ruf des Meeres, Teil 1
  • Spanish: La cola de una bruja 1 parte

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Preceded by:
Witch Way Now?
Charmed episodes Followed by:
A Witch's Tail, Pt 2
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