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Belphegor’s Spells in 15x01

Belphegor, as well as being a sassy Dean fan-boy, and a twisted one at that (one who digs Dean’s painful past as a torturer/demon in Hell) is also a pretty damn good spell-worker, right?

As ever in SPN, spell ingredients are often, especially since the particularly blatant Angel Fall spell of 8x23 Sacrifice, connected to the Destiel subtext of the show: heart of a Nephilim - a product of angel/ human congress; Cupid’s Bow - used to make two dudes fall in love; grace [aka spunk] of an angel, and not just any angel - but specifically Castiel himself. 

Belphegor, who thinks Dean is “gorgeous” and who checks out a LOT of dudes during his speech about how people on earth are a lot more attractive than in ye olden days, has some interesting spell ingredients of his own:

His first spell involves grave dirt and the blood of an angel (specifically Castiel’s blood):

 Dean is in the background shot of this spell, which has so many resonances for the Dean/ Cas relationship. Cas raising Dean from grave dirt (from death, from Hell) - remember the shot of Dean crawling from his own grave in 4x01?

That famous line of Cas’ from 7x21 Reading is Fundamental: “Always happy to bleed for the Winchesters”, which is particularly recalled by Cas’ magnificent eye-roll as he ponies up the blood here in 5x01, despite suffering because of having to watch his beloved dead son’s corpse “defiled” by this new, irritating, demon.

And the blood is symbolic of Castiel’s sacrifice for the Winchesters, his incredible journey from Heaven’s soldier to a renegade with a human (and Nephilim) adopted family whom he loves.

The spell banishes ghosts - subtextually the implication is that Castiel’s love and devotion (his willingness to offer his blood for the Winchesters/ Dean) has the power to banish the things which haunt them/ Dean.

Belphegor’s next spell involves salt and a human heart, and he performs it in the company of Dean:

 We know the expression, “rubbing salt in the wound” - well the subtext of this spell is about Dean’s heart in pain. He bickers with Cas during the episode, and things are clearly not OK between them. Jack and Mary’s deaths have hurt Dean and Cas deeply and, despite their continuing love for one another, come between them. 

This spell temporarily contains ghosts behind a barrier. So that suggests repression.

Take the two spells together, one involving Cas and one involving Dean, and our sassy new queer-coded demon performs one spell which banishes ghosts and one which temporarily traps them. 

Two choices - release the ghosts of the past or repress them. 

One involves Castiel’s willing sacrifice/ devotion.

One involves rubbing salt into Dean’s heart.

In the subtext, these spells, performed by a queer-coded trickster figure (aka a truth-teller) are concerned with the (repressed) love between Dean and Cas and the incredible power/ potential for its resurrection.