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Potions are special liquids prepared by witches and possibly their male counterpart wizards that trigger various magical effects. A few witches, including Professor Lukić, Sucy, and her mother, specialize in potions.

Description

Potions are brewed with certain ingredients and a specific process of preparation. Misuse of ingredients or an error in preparation may cause undesirable effects. Some potions are meant to be consumed to be effective, while others can be used to attack the target.

Potions are prepared mainly in fire cauldrons and stored in small bottles. Some potions are required to be used in combination with a spell, but most can do their magical effects without them. Latter variant provides field advantage for magic users who wish to conserve their magic reserves (especially in areas where magic cannot be used freely) or lacking sufficient aptitude in performing magic through traditional means.[1][2]

Relative to how they are brewed, potions can alternatively be processed into powder-like (ex. Explosive Powder Potion, Weapon-Wand Fusion Powder, and powder variant of Mending Magic Potion)[1] or jell-like substance (ex. Magic Glue and its stronger variant Sealing Glue).[3]

Certain potions are made specifically as cure for certain diseases which more than often supernatural in nature, such as Greenman Disease Antidote to counter the namesake disease or one to wake those who afflicted with Sleeping Witch Sickness.[1]

Notable Potion Ingredients

List of Potions

# Name Description Image
1. Festering Potion Festering Potion is a potion that can reduce living beings that either touch or consume it into caustic goo. The level of its causticness seem to depend on the quantity of utilized ingredients.

Sucy used one to kill a Minotaur in the first film where she remarked its effect too strong, as the beast's molten body ends up burning through the dungeon's floor.

Festering Potion LWA
2. Poison Gas Potion Poison Gas Potion is a potion that evaporates into a cloud of poison upon contact with the air. The gas' tremendous killing ability can be amplified through increasing the dosage of magical energy used in brewing it.

In the first film, Sucy uses the Poison Gas Potion to kill the sealed Briton Red Dragon that escaped its prison and wreaked havoc at the New Moon Tower, but due to the dragon's magic-absorbing ability coupled with the magic in said potion, fails and accelerates its growth further instead.

Poison Gas Potion LWA
3. Mandrake Soup Mandrake Soup is a potion which, as its name suggested, made of boiled Mandrake chops and restores the drinker's magic reserves in addition of temporarily bolsters their power at the same. However, the drinker must posssess sufficient mastery over their magic in order to both handle and harness the power increase at its fullest.

In Terio Teri Manga, Sucy brews this potion out of her 5-year old Mandrake Gora-chan for Akko in order to quickly increase her magic power. Unfortunately, Akko's inexperience with magic sees her comically causing a fiery explosion via. amplified basic Flame Magic spell which destroys much of their dorm room by mistake, leading the red team to receive detention in form of cleaning bathroom in the next day.

Akko drinks Mandrake Soup
4. Puppet Magic Potion
A potion that aids in control magic.

—Description of Control Magic Potion

Also known as Control Magic Potion, Puppet Magic Potion is a potion for performing Puppet Magic. It has two variants; one that needs to be poured over the target to magically inanimate it under his/her control for a limited amount of time and the other that must be consumed to briefly improve the user's puppet magic performance. The latter's effect only lasted long enough for the user to cast only one mending magic spell, forcing her to ingest more to cast another. Said variant is arguably concocted that way for both discouraging the user from rely on it and for training purposes.

5. Rope Cage Potion Rope Cage Potion is a potion devised to perform the namesake spell by pouring it on the target. As with unconsumable variant of Puppet Magic Potion in Sucy's disposal, it is categorized by purplish coloration and some portion of it evaporates while being applied, though this could be a cosmetic choice in her part. Rope cage
6. Petrifying Poison Potion Petrifying Poison Potion, or simply known as Petrifying Poison[1] is a potion that devised to turn the target into quartz-like stone upon contact. Not surprisingly, its key ingredient being the poison in Cockatrice feather.

In "Pappiliodya", Sucy is shown working on this potion and reached a breakthrough after testing it on a spider. It's unknown whether she would complete the manageable form of this potion as with Poison Gas Potion.

Sucy tests her Cockatrice poison-based petrification formula LWA 02
7. Nutrient Potion Nutrient Potion, or simply called Nutrient[5][6], is a potion that activates and accelerates the grow of vegetation.

In "Don't Stop Me Now", Sucy uses it on the brooms of the other participants of the Luna Nova Cup to adhere their brooms to the ground with plants and prevent them from flying. She probably uses a variety in "Samhain Magic" to grow giant mushrooms.

Nutrient LWA 03
8. Frog Leg Potion Also known as Frog Leg Juice[5], Frog Leg Potion is a potion that upon contact with the target, grows one or more frog-like legs capable of jumping relatively long distances. The color of this potion is pinkish red.

In "Don't Stop Me Now", Akko uses it on her broom to compensate her inability to fly with it during the 1333rd Luna Nova Cup thus hops around the course instead of fly.

Frog Leg Juice LWA
9. Memory Alteration Potion Memory Alteration Potion[5] is a potion that can alter the memories of the drinker, it takes effect in two hours after consumption. The potion can be mixed with foods or beverages without affecting its effects.

In "Blytonbury's Undead Travelogue" Sucy uses it to ensure the patrons of a tavern the revived Mr. Holbrooke visited forget the bizarre encounter.

Memory Alteration Potion
10. Explosive Powder Potion Explosive Powder Potion, or simply called Explosive Powder[5] is a potion that dried into powder form with volatile properties akin to gunpowder true to its namesake. Unlike the latter, however, the potion's powder state is as light as ash or smoke particles thus stays in the air around the target(s) like a cloud, a feature the user can exploit as a form of deceptive smokescreen. Once the target(s) got surrounded by the powder cloud, the user can ignite it to trigger a violent explosion that burns the enemy. Not surprisingly, the use of this potion requires keen senses to read the air currents, the insight to read the targets' movements, tactical experience to not also engulf one's allies in the explosion, and careful attention for the timing of the ignition, especially if it being used on the ground instead of while flying where such requirement being less strict.

In "Luna Nova and the White Dragon", Sucy used one to combat Fafnir's Robot Dragons.

Explosive Powder Potion LWA
11. Stereoscopic Image Potion Stereoscopic Image Potion is a potion which if spilled, will evaporate into smoke which reveals images of a certain story/plot. It's unknown what kind of ingredients are used to make this potion.

In Blytonbury's Undead Travelogue, the Café Proprietor used a vial of this potion to tell Akko, Lotte, and Sucy about Golden Age of Magic.

Stereoscopic Image Potion LWA
12. Pyro Booster Potion Pyro Booster Potion[7][8] is a potion that can give a Magic Broom a boost of power, enabling temporary supersonic flight. To use this potion, the user needs to apply it to her broom before igniting it with fire.

In "Tree of Leaves", Sucy utilized this potion on both hers and Lotte's broom to help Atsuko Kagari and Diana Cavendish catch up with Noir Missile.

LWA Pyro Booster Potion
13. Ultra Super Energy Drink Ultra Super Energy Drink[5] is the experimental ultimate potion brewed by Sucy in Sleeping Sucy. It's supposedly gives the user greater magic ability than usual, but only knocks Sucy out for a bit and inflicted her with Sleeping Witch Sickness instead. Sucy's intention for this potion was too simply have greater magic power so she can find more mushrooms. Before testing it to herself, she considered to use it on Akko, but eventually against it upon foreseeing that it will fully awaken the Japanese witch's magic potential and would made her life boring. Professor Witch Sucy
14. Weapon-Wand Fusion Powder Weapon-Wand Fusion Powder is a potion that allows the user to combine her wand with a weapon/item to upgrade the said weapon/item into better version of it on the same vein with Weapon-Wand Fusion Spell. Only powder variant of said potion that shown so far.

In "Bee Commotion", Sucy uses this powder to magically combine her wand with an ornate fly swatter head to form an enchanted fly swatter for Akko to instantly killed a Cupid Bee which she set loose earlier.

Weapon Wand Fusion Powder LWA
15. Greenman Disease Antidote
Main article: Greenman Disease#Countermeasures
In order to make an antidote, it is necessary to have “one snowflake that fell on a pine forest”, “the leaf of a berry that has been blown away by the wind”, “fresh droppings from a reindeer raised by a Sami”, “a green Amanita mushroom” and “a traditional medicine prepared by a yeti”.

—Description of Greenman Disease's Antidote from Witchpedia.[9]

A concoction devised to cure those who afflicted with Greenman Disease.

Greenman Disease Antidote being stirred with Shiny Rod LWA 16
16. Magic Glue
A magic-infused glue with exceptional bonding ability

—Description of Magic Glue from Strange Notebook

Magic Glue is a special glue with magical properties. The glue is yellowish brown in color, and its ingredients are leaves of Mandrake, mini dragon's fangs, cornstrach.
Magic Glue LWA CoT
17. Sealing Glue
A magic-infused glue with exceptional bonding ability

—Description of Binding Glue from Strange Notebook

Also known as Binding Glue. It is much more powerful version of Magic Glue as it can bind almost anything. The glue can be made by mixing magic glue with few drops of Cerberus's blood, which turning it gleaming purple.
Binding Glue LWA CoT
18. Enchanted Fertilizer
Has no effect on normal plants, but can be used in magical plant nutrients to make flowers bloom instantly. Available for purchase from the academy store.

—Description of Enchanted Fertilizer from Strange Notebook

Enchanted Fertilizer is a special fertilizer that enhances the grow of magical plant that they can bloom instantly. While effective, the fertilizer is useless on normal plants. It's unknown what its ingredients are.
Enchanted Fertilizer LWA CoT
19. Cactus Nutrients
A liquid made from the extract of cacti native to the Shaula Desert. A few drops can be used to purify water.

—Description of Cactus Nutrients from Strange Notebook

Cactus Nutrients is a special nutrient to purify water, enabling magical fish like Pisces to breathe on the water. In Little Witch Academia: Chamber of Time, Akko and Sucy made this nutrient to purify the water in the water stream at Cafeteria Vestibule under behalf of Pisces so she can travel outside Luna Nova out of boredom. Unfortunately, that, coupled with the Cactus Nutrient's unintended side effect where the water becomes pink in color, resulted the unintended misunderstanding with Finnelan who mistakes Akko about to hurt Pisces again. After clearing up the matter with Finnelan and Holbrooke, Pisces reveals to Akko that she found another lesser Pollux Magic key while exploring the stream and gives it to her.
Cactus Nutrients LWA CoT
20. Ancient Dragon Potion
This tonic temporarily gives anyone who drinks it the ability to read Ancient Dragon.

—Description of Ancient Dragon Potion from Strange Notebook

A special potion that endows the drinker temporary ability to both read and understand Dragonese. It requires a number of fangs of Miniature Dragon to brew[4].
Dragonese Potion LWA CoT
21. Experimental Poison Gas Bomb A much more devastating variant of Poison Gas potion which still in experimental stage but used by Sucy anyway as her trump card in Little Witch Academia: Chamber of Time game. This potion composed of two separate concoctions; the main concoction that is bright pink in color, and the cyan one that acts as the catalyst. By mixing a drop of the latter into the former, the main concoction will violently boil before explodes in the matter of few seconds, damaging and poisoning everything and everyone within the blast radius. Even so, the blast caused little to no harm to Sucy thanks to her acquired immunity to poisons beforehand other than slight disorientation. Experimental Poison Gas Bomb LWA CoT
22. Culinary Magic Potion
A potion that aids in culinary magic.

—Description of Culinary Magic Potion

Culinary Magic Potion is a potion which briefly improves the witch's culinary magic through consumption. Its effect only lasted long enough for the user to cast only one culinary magic spell, forcing her to ingest more to cast another. The potion is arguably concocted that way for both discouraging the user from rely on it and for training purposes.
Culinary Potion LWA CoT
23. Telepathy Magic Potion
A potion that aids in telepathy magic.

—Description of Telepathy Magic Potion

Telepathy Magic Potion is a potion which briefly improves the witch's telepathy magic through consumption. Its effect only lasted long enough for the user to cast only one telepathy magic spell, forcing her to ingest more to cast another. The potion is arguably concocted that way for both discouraging the user from rely on it and for training purposes.
Telepathy Potion LWA CoT
24. Mending Magic Potion
A potion that aids in mending magic.

—Description of Mending Magic Potion

Mending Magic Potion is a potion to help performing Mending Magic. It has two variants; a powder which needs to be poured on damaged item to restore it with Mending Magic spell's incantation and liquid one that must be consumed to briefly improve the user's mending magic performance. The latter's effect only lasted long enough for the user to cast only one mending magic spell, forcing her to ingest more to cast another. Said variant is arguably concocted that way for both discouraging the user from rely on it and for training purposes.

If the powder variant of this potion got mixed with at least one Grave Mushroom, it will trigger a green explosion of necromantic gas which then seeps into a nearby dead body (even if the dead body in question is buried few feet under the soil) and revive him/her as a Zombie, something that Akko discovered when she accidently revived Mr. Holbrooke when attempting to fix his tombstone.

In "Orange Submariner", Ursula teachs Akko how to use Mending Magic Potion with Mending Magic, Akko uses it in White Magic's exam, but White Magic Teacher thinks Akko's potion and magic have no effect. In "Blytonbury's Undead Travelogue", the accidental mixture of Akko's Mending Magic Potion and Sucy's Grave Mushroom resurrects the deceased Mr. Holbrooke as a Zombie in a freak accident.

25. Levitation Magic Potion
A potion that aids in levitation magic.

—Description of Levitation Magic Potion

Levitation Magic Potion is a potion which briefly improves the witch's Floating Magic through consumption. Its effect only lasted long enough for the user to cast only one levitation magic spell, forcing her to ingest more to cast another. The potion is arguably concocted that way for both discouraging the user from rely on it and for training purposes.
Levitation Potion LWA CoT
26. Sleeping Magic Potion
A potion that aids in sleeping magic.

—Description of Sleeping Magic Potion

Sleeping Magic Potion is a potion which briefly improves the witch's sleeping magic through consumption. Its effect only lasted long enough for the user to cast only one sleeping magic spell, forcing her to ingest more to cast another. The potion is arguably concocted that way for both discouraging the user from rely on it and for training purposes.
Sleeping Potion LWA CoT
27. Metamorphosis Magic Potion
A potion that aids in metamorphosis magic.

—Description of Metamorphosis Magic Potion

Metamorphosis Magic Potion is a potion which briefly improves the witch's metamorphosis magic through consumption. Its effect only lasted long enough for the user to cast only one metamorphosis magic spell, forcing her to ingest more to cast another. The potion is arguably concocted that way for both discouraging the user from rely on it and for training purposes.
Metamorphosis Potion LWA CoT
28. Invisibility Magic Potion
A potion that aids in invisibility magic.

—Description of Invisibility Magic Potion

Invisibility Magic Potion is a potion which briefly improves the witch's invisibility magic through consumption. Its effect only lasted long enough for the user to cast only one invisibility magic spell, forcing her to ingest more to cast another. The potion is arguably concocted that way for both discouraging the user from rely on it and for training purposes.
Invisibility Potion LWA CoT
29. Movement Magic Potion
A potion that aids in movement magic.

—Description of Movement Magic Potion

Movement Magic Potion is a potion which briefly improves the witch's movement magic through consumption. Its effect only lasted long enough for the user to cast only one movement magic spell, forcing her to ingest more to cast another. The potion is arguably concocted that way for both discouraging the user from rely on it and for training purposes.
Movement Potion LWA CoT

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