Nick Ruth’s The Dark Dreamweaver is about a preteen boy, David, who travels to Remin. He is there to help an old wizard, Houdin. Houdin is under a curse. Evil Thane is the wizard who placed the curse on Houdin.

A curse unlike a spell is permanent until it is removed by the curser or the curser is destroyed. During the course of the story Houdin teaches David some wizard spells. Here is a list of the spells used in The Dark Dreamweaver. Get out your magic wand and spectrum. Try your hand at a couple of spells.


The Dark Dreamweaver Spells

Aqueous
The spell creates water.

Articus
The spell creates blasts of cold air.

Bellmorsium Aqua
The spell creates a contact with Michelle and Fred.

Bellmorsium Kira
The spell creates a contact with Kira. It is like a cell call.

Coagulatius
The spell heals wounds.

Dehydration
The spell shrinks items.

Desicatium
The spell creates a dry path over quicksand.

Dragonium
The spell creates fire.

Flourescium
The spell creates light.

Hydroswellium
The spell creates juices in dried fruit.

Macelium
The spell creates an invisible wall.

Marceau
The spell creates a wall of energy.

Puffnstuff
The spell changes a human into a sea serpent.

Rehydration
The spell expands items.

Saleemia
This spell transfers people from Earth to Remin.

Solarius
The spell creates a beam of heat which is as hot as the sun.

Terra Nullgravium
The spell creates a force which causes objects to levitate and move.

Vulcanius Mindmeldium
The spell creates a link from mind to another allowing communication without talking out loud.

Windbinding
The spell creates a whirlwind which envelopes and binds a person. The whirlwind is so tight the person can not move their arms.

Windtunia
The spell creates a swirl of wind to move objects.





Read the next book in The Remin Chronicles, The Breezes of Inspire. David with his cousins has more adventures this time in Sir-Heads-Alot's world, Inspire.

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