The Magic Box (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
Soon, Anya revealed herself to be a genius at retail and became Giles's assistant manager. When Giles returned to England, Anya became the shop's manager while Giles stayed on only as a silent partner.
For a brief period, Buffy Summers also worked part time for The Magic Shop (Life Serial) but found that she was not cut out for such employment.
Unofficially, Buffy's sister, Dawn, and her friends Xander, Willow, Tara, and others also helped out in the shop from time to time, and The Magic Box was the headquarters at which they met to research vampires, demons, witches, and other supernatural and paranormal phenomena after the old high school and its library were destroyed.
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Description
The Magic Shop had a full basement, which was used to store excess stock, and a loft in which many of the esoteric volumes from the Sunnydale High School library were kept after they'd been removed from the library in preparation for its detonation as a means of killing the demonic mayor Richard Wilkins (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) in the episode entitled "Graduation Day, Part II".
The shop itself displayed merchandise on tables, on shelves and racks, and inside glass counters. A room behind the shop was reserved as a training area for Buffy, where she could practice hand-to-hand combat and martial arts techniques and tactics. It was equipped with a punching bag, a pommel horse, tumbling mats, protective pads, and other paraphernalia and included an armory of various weapons.
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Merchandise
In addition to the Orb of Thesulah, the following merchandise was available for sale at The Magic Box:
- Skink root ("Lovers Walk")
- Essence of rose thorn ("Lovers Walk")
- Canary's feathers ("Lovers Walk")
- Essence of violet ("Lovers Walk")
- Cloves ("Lovers Walk")
- Set of runic tablets ("Lovers Walk")
- Rats' eyes ("Lovers Walk")
- Holy water ("Lovers Walk")
- Unicorn statue ("Real Me")
- Salamander Eyes ("No Place Like Home")
- Essence of Slug candles ("Life Serial")
- Eyeballs in honey ("Life Serial")
- Dagger of Lex ("Life Serial")
- Petrified hamster ("Life Serial")
- Mummy's hand ("Life Serial")
- Mandrake Root ("All the Way")
- Green Egg Magazine ("Triangle")
A wide variety of other magical paraphernalia was also available, including candles, crystal balls, love potions (possibly not real potions), etc., along with presumably non-magical items such as history books, jewelry, etc.
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Destruction
The Magic Box was eventually destroyed after Dark Willow sucked its magical contents dry in Villains and then fought a vicious battle with Giles within it. In the course of the battle the entire structure was reduced to rubble in Grave.
At the beginning of Season Seven, the destroyed Magic Box is seen as Anya clears out the wreckage during Same Time, Same Place.
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See also
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