Mental Manipulation is the ability to influence the thoughts, memories or emotions of a being. Memory Manipulation is a kind of mental manipulation as well, but limited to manipulation of memories.
Overview[]
Characters with this ability[]
Primordial Entities[]
Chuck manipulates Eileen into stabbing Sam
- God - As a nigh-omnipotent being he can influence the mind of almost any being. He used his powers to above all fulfill his artistic urges, making people throughout all universes he created act like characters in the stories he composed. This form of manipulation is quite subtle and goes unperceived by the people subjected to it, but God is also capable of more crass forms of mental control, such as when he controlled Eileen into stabbing Sam.
- The Darkness - When she met Sydney and felt her sadness, Amara made her feel euphoric by holding her hand. She could also manipulate the bodies and minds of the Rabids.
Horsemen[]
- Death - Was able to suppress Sam's memories of his time in Lucifer's Cage by some kind of mental wall.
- War - Could create illusions in the mind of humans.
- Famine - Could increase the hunger in humans and even angels in vessel.
Angelic Beings[]
Sam subdues Garth while the latter is under Alternate Michael's control
- Archangels
- Michael - He manipulated John and Mary Winchester's memory in the 1970s so they would forget everything about him and their time-travelling sons who visited them from the 2000s.
- Alternate Michael - After Garth drank some of Alternate Michael's grace, the archangel made him attack the Winchesters against his own will.
- Seraphim
- Castiel - He manipulated the memories of Dean's girlfriend and her son, however he was unable to erase Sam's memories of Lucifer's Cage. He destroyed the wall that Death built inside Sam's mind, and shut Fred Jones inside his own mind. He was also able to strip the ritual to open a rift from Donatello Redfield's mind, but in doing so, left Donatello brain dead. As a method of torture, Castiel was able to use this to inflict great pain on a rogue resistance member.
- Grigori
- Cupid - Cupids in general have the ability to make pairs of humans fall in love with each other.
- Angels
- Metatron - He imparted his knowledge of human-made fiction into Castiel's mind.
- Alternate Castiel - As a method of torture, he could inflict great pain and strip all the information out of someone's brain.
- Nephilim
Lucifer under Jack's power
- Jack - Using his powers Jack made no one less than his own father Lucifer tell the truth about the deal he made with Alternate Michael and about killing the hunter Maggie. Jack later spread chaos throughout the planet just by wishing that people would stop lying, forcing everyone the world over to tell the truth all the time regardless of consequences.
Demons[]
- Princes of Hell
- Dagon - She controlled a doctor's mind as he was performing an ultrasound scanning on Kelly. Her powers may have been boosted by Lucifer.
- Asmodeus - He controlled Donatello's mind after he joined the Winchesters in translating the Demon Tablet. As Asmodeus increased his powers by injecting the archangel Gabriel's grace into his own vessel, it's unclear whether this feat was a result of his own demonic gifts or the archangelic powers he was borrowing.
- Crossroad Demon
- Crowley - He was able to implant the written form of every word in the English language into his son's mind.
Deities[]
- Veritas - As the goddess of truth, her signature ability is to force humans to speak the truth whether they want to or not. Whatever town she is in, if someone asks aloud for the truth, they will invoke her curse. Nobody can be lied to when under her curse. She can also force people in her presence to tell the truth just by commanding it even if they had not asked for the truth. Soulless people are unaffected by this and can even lie to her as they seem to have a special resistance against the curse.
Monsters[]
- Eve - When she came back to Earth, she controlled the minds of all her children (ie, monsters) so they would feed on human flesh. Even good natured monsters such as Lenore and her nest felt Eve's command was overwhelming and impossible to resist forever.
- Djinn - Djinn can trap people in their own minds.
Ghosts[]
Humans[]
- Witches
A waiter agonizing under Rowena's Servitude Spell
- Rowena MacLeod - Rowena created a number of spells for mind control. By one of these spells people would behave as her docile servants. And by another they would become her "attack dog". The latter spell proved effective even against angels. Both spells were ruthless and ultimately killed any humans affected by them after a relatively short while.
- Jamie and Jennie Plum - They knew of a spell to make men fall in love with them.
- Psychics
- Magda Peterson - Magda could project her thoughts into other people, making them repeat what was on her mind. As she did not have full control over her powers, this proved fatal to the people she psychically communicated with.
- Chip Harrington - He controlled the minds of all the people in the town where he lived into behaving as he wished, following his moral and even aesthetic values.
- Sunny Harrington - Chip's daughter, she is said to be at least her father's equal and ultimately shuts her father into his own mind.
- Men of Letters
- Cuthbert Sinclair - He knew of a spell to rob people and monsters of their will. Using it he lorded over a "collection" or "zoo" of supernatural creatures, and almost did the same to Dean. The spell seems to have a cumulative effect, having to be employed over a period of time up until its target becomes totally subservient.
- Toni Bevell - She brainwashed Mary Winchester into becoming a loyal asset of the British Men of Letters. Her methods, like Sinclair's, demand a number of "sessions" for maximum effectiveness, but employ medical or neurological, rather than magical, means.
Objects and curses with this effect[]
- Gabriel's Horn of Truth - This artifact from Heaven is able to make all people tell the truth, although it has been spoken of it has never been shown in the series.
- Mark of Cain - Influenced Dean to a point where he nearly killed Castiel and his brother. It was even able to corrupt the archangel Lucifer. It turned Cain into a killer and made Lucifer more of what he already was.
- Book of the Damned - If read, the book's magic will have a negative effect on a person's mind. The effect will be even worse if the reader is the bearer of the Mark of Cain.
Spells and diseases with this effect[]
- Ghost sickness - Transformed Dean into a coward.
- Demon Blood - Similar effect to a drug, changed Sam's character.
- Attack Dog Spell - Causes mindless and aggressive behavior in humans and even higher angels.