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'''Blood Magic'''
 
'''Blood Magic'''
   
Maggy was a powerful [[Blood Magic|blood mage]], and could receive prophetic visions of a person's future by drinking their blood. She demonstrated this ability to a young [[Cersei Lannister]] in her childhood, when she drank the blood from her fingertip, she told her three visions from her future, with the first two coming true in her adulthood, showing her to have had genuine magical and clairvoyant abilities. 
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Maggy is a powerful [[Blood Magic|blood mage]], and can receive prophetic visions of a person's future by drinking their blood. She demonstrated this ability to a young [[Cersei Lannister]] in her childhood, when she drank the blood from her fingertip, she told her three visions from her future, with the first two coming true in her adulthood, showing her to have genuine magical powers.
   
 
==Appearances==
 
==Appearances==

Revision as of 05:56, 2 May 2019

"Everyone wants to know their future... until they know their future."
―Maggy[src]

Maggy, also known as Maggy the Frog,[1] was a woods witch and reputed fortune teller living in a hut in the woods near Casterly Rock.

Biography

Season 5

When she was a teenager, Cersei Lannister went to visit Maggy at her hut in the woods, accompanied by Melara Hetherspoon, because she had heard that the witch could read people's futures. Cersei entered Maggy's hut uninvited, but when Maggy woke and demanded that she get out, Cersei arrogantly pointed out that Maggy was on her father Tywin Lannister's lands, and threatened that she would have her eyes gouged out if she refused her. Chuckling, Maggy relented and asked Cersei for a taste of her blood, handing her knife to cut her finger with. Cersei complied and Maggy then literally sucked some blood from the cut, as part of her blood magic. Maggy told Cersei that she could ask three questions, but mocked the prideful young girl that she wouldn't like the answers.

Maggy let Cersei ask three questions. First, Cersei's father had promised that she would wed Crown Prince Rhaegar Targaryen, and she wanted to know when they would marry. Maggy responded that she wouldn't marry "the prince" but she would marry "the king". Worried, Cersei used her second question to confirm that she would indeed be queen some day. Maggy confirmed that she would, but that in time she would be cast down by another, younger and more beautiful queen, who would take all she held dear. Third, Cersei asked if she and the king would have children. Maggy cryptically replied that the king would have 20 children, but Cersei would have only three. Cersei didn't think that made sense (not realizing that a king can have bastard children), but Maggy continued to say of her three children that gold would be their crowns, and gold their burial shrouds, implying that all of Cersei's children would predecease her.

Cersei remembers meeting Maggy right before her father's funeral, after he was murdered by her own brother Tyrion. Cersei is disturbed because her eldest son Joffrey has already died, poisoned at his own wedding to Margaery Tyrell, who will now marry her younger son Tommen and become the new queen, while her daughter Myrcella is in Dorne as a ward—and potential hostage—of Prince Doran Martell, brother of the late Elia and Oberyn Martell, both of whom died at the hands of her bannerman Gregor Clegane. Cersei fears that Margaery is the younger and more beautiful queen that Maggy warned her about.[2]

Samwell Tarly once recalled overhearing a story of a woods witch named Maggy camping near Horn Hill, which suggest she left the Westerlands at some point. He also recalled that his father hunted her down, remarking that whatever magical powers she claimed to have didn't save her life. In hindsight, he realized that the name "Maggy" was likely a corruption of the Eastern word for wizards: Maegi.[1]

Abilities

Blood Magic

Maggy is a powerful blood mage, and can receive prophetic visions of a person's future by drinking their blood. She demonstrated this ability to a young Cersei Lannister in her childhood, when she drank the blood from her fingertip, she told her three visions from her future, with the first two coming true in her adulthood, showing her to have genuine magical powers.

Appearances

Template:Season Five Appearances

In the books

In the A Song of Ice and Fire novels, Maggy—often called Maggy the Frog—is not simply a Westerosi woods witch, but an Essosi fortune teller living in Lannisport, the wife of a spice merchant who brought her with him from Essos. This spice merchant was the founder of House Spicer and grandfather of Sybell Spicer, the mother of Jeyne Westerling, who later married Robb Stark (Jeyne was changed into the character Talisa for the TV series). The nickname "Maggy" is conjectured to be a slurred mishearing from the foreign word "Maegi".

Kevan Lannister recalls Maggy as frightening old crone, who was supposed to be a priestess, and that half of Lannisport used to go to her for cures and love potions. Based on Kevan's comment there is a fan theory that Sybelle Spicer might have not only concocted a contraceptive for her daughter, to prevent her from getting pregnant by Robb (as she reveals to Jaime), but also a love potion, to make Robb susceptible to Jeyne's advances.

In the fifth novel, while Cersei performs her walk of atonement, she hallucinates that Maggy is standing in the crowd with her pendulous teats and her warty greenish skin, leering with the rest, with malice shining from her crusty yellow eyes, hissing the prophecy about another queen who will cast Cersei down and take all she holds most dear.

In the novels, Maggy looks much like a stereotypical ugly fairy tale witch: very old, squat and warty, with no teeth, crusty yellow eyes, and pale green jowls—hence why she is called "Maggy the Frog".

Maggy moving to Horn Hill and Randyll Tarly hunting her down and executing her never happened in the books and was created for Histories & Lore segments of Season 7. In the novels, there is no mention of what happened to Maggy after her meeting with Cersei; Kevan assumes she is long dead, but it has not been confirmed.

See also

References