Melinda Bowen

Melinda Baxter (formerly Melinda Bowen) was a powerful Warren witch born with a twin in the middle of 19th century. She was the daughter of James P. Bowen (mortal) and Philippa Bowen (witch), wife of Redmond Baxter and mother of P. Baxter, and therefore the great-great-grandmother of the Charmed Ones. Due to the prayer-curse of her ancestor , she didn't obtained the "burden" of Clairvoyance, but only the power to "see the past events" (psychometry). To compensate this weakening her second power is the Ice Stasis, whic she used to destroy her enemies in one million of pieces.

Powers and Abilities
Melinda manifested her first ability at 15 years, when touch one entry on Book of Shadows: she see her mother that writes this page. Quickly she learned to call the visions without having physical contact with objects or persons. Shortly thereafter she developed the hybrid power to stop time and imprigion a target on ice: thus the victims could easily be shattered with an athame. Melinda was very skilled in launching the athame, managing to hit a target even 10 meters away.

The First War with the Evils Forces (1871-1891)
The first evil that Melinda and Astrid faced was an Evil Powerful Firestarter that provoking the Great Chicago Fire during October 8-10, 1871.

Marriage, birth of Priscilla and transfer to San Francisco (1898)
After the wedding, Melinda and Redmond decided to move to a home in the distant state of California. After years of research, Melinda chose a splendid Victorian-style pink house from 1887, because it stood above a Wiccan Nexus: a point of incredible magical energy that could be channeled and exploited by the Warren Witches to make Good triumph over Evil. The whole family moved there in 1898, after the weaning of their daughter P. Baxter.



The Death of her Sister, the knowledge of her secret young Cousin and the Second War with the Evil Forces (1901-1921)
After the death of Astrid Warren, Melinda raised her daughter (P. Russell) in her family.

Book of Shadows (new entries)
Melinda written a some spells and many entries of demons in the Book of Shadows...
 * Exorcising Potion (written with her sister)
 * The Firestarters
 * Lazarus demon
 * Telekinesis (pages about the power and the story of the family)
 * Pyrokinesis
 * Zahn
 * The Bunyip (written with her sister)
 * Safety Spell (to protect witches from warlocks in the New House, using the power of the Nexus).
 * The Blue Moon
 * The Wendigo
 * The Succubus
 * To Attract and Destroy the Succubus 
 * The Hand of Fatima (the spell to destroy the demin Javna)
 * The Triad

Hereditary

 * MelindaBowenInfamilytree.jpg to her extraordinary power Melinda was one of the witches mentioned in the spell to call ancestors.
 * In the Warren family tree Melinda was registered with her second, and best known, name. To call ancestors.jpg