Continuity mistake: When Willow jumps on the shield, the snow on Mad's back disappears between shots.
Continuity mistake: When Madmartigan kicks the troll he disappears from the ledge.
Revealing mistake: Whenever Rool and Franjean have been blue-screened into the movie, the ground does not react to their movements. This is particularly noticeable when they are standing by the base of a tree, surrounded with dirt and pebbles, and when the entire group of brownies are dragging Willow and Meegosh through the dirt.
Continuity mistake: After Fin is almost killed, Bavmorda and Willow talk, the way the blanket folds over his hand and the amount of loose blanket on the right differs noticeably between shots. (01:56:53)
Continuity mistake: When Willow jumps on the shield it's clean. When Madmartigan jumps on it's covered with snow. It's not snowing at all, and even if there was a mild snowfall, it couldn't have covered the shield so fast.
Revealing mistake: Willow kills the walking cauldron (a stop-motion superimposed image) with a farmer's fork, but he's very obviously just mimicking and the fork is not pinching the cauldron at all.
Continuity mistake: When Willow burns a troll and it transforms into a blob of raw-sticky-flesh with two heads sticking out, he kicks it and in a mere frame it becomes a brownish ball that looks like a roasted turkey.
Revealing mistake: Madmartigan kicks a baddie but his foot misses by far, despite the thump being heard. (01:31:44)
Answer: Bavmorda's ritual was the Ritual of Obliteration - a spell that is used to destroy a living spirit's essence or soul. Presuambly if she'd just killed Elora, the soul would have been later reborn into another baby.
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