The process of making a person, usually a child, a magical witch or wizard. This happens by feeding a child moonlight, which a witch can gather on her fingers from the sky. Enmagicked children are dangerous until they learn to channel their powers. In the novel, Xan accidentally enmagicks Luna.
Enmagic Quotes in The Girl Who Drank the Moon
The The Girl Who Drank the Moon quotes below are all either spoken by Enmagic or refer to Enmagic. For each quote, you can also see the other terms and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 3
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“Luna,” she said. “Your name will be Luna. And I will be your grandmother. And we will be a family.”
And just by saying so, Xan knew it was true. The words hummed in the air between them, stronger than any magic.
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Chapter 9
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“I remember. All at once.” He shook his head. “Why had I forgotten?”
Xan pushed her wrinkled lips to one side. “Sorrow is dangerous. Or, at least, it was. I can’t remember why, now. I think we both became accustomed to not remembering things. We just let things get...foggy.”
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Enmagic Term Timeline in The Girl Who Drank the Moon
The timeline below shows where the term Enmagic appears in The Girl Who Drank the Moon. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 3. In Which a Witch Accidentally Enmagics an Infant
...the best in a baby’s heart and soul. Moonlight, however, is pure magic and can enmagic a baby. Xan stares into the baby’s eyes as she puts her hand up. She...
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Xan knows the baby has been enmagicked and sits down. She can feel the baby’s magic and knows that in time, the...
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Chapter 9. In Which Several Things Go Wrong
Xan attempts to teach Luna to control her magic. When Xan was enmagicked at age 10, she was sad and grateful for Zosimos’s guidance—he protected her from someone...
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Chapter 14. In Which There Are Consequences
...eyes go blank. Xan continues and says that she fed Luna moonlight one night, thereby enmagicking her. Luna looks blank and absent for most of the morning after this. Xan and...
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Chapter 27. In Which Luna Learns More than She Wished
...that it could be done and to study her. The girl didn’t die; she became enmagicked.
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Chapter 44. In Which There Is a Change of Heart
...the woods are the Star Children. Xan confirms this, and says that Luna was accidentally enmagicked.
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