Thread:Nightlily/@comment-26967699-20160720230347/@comment-25926288-20160721192718

Nightlily wrote: Ingrid did cast the protection spell. In "Heroes and Villains", Emma says, "The wall may be down, but I sense that some of Ingrid's magic remains. (Touches barrier) Yeah. (...) She wanted to be here alone with (Elsa) and me. She wanted to make Storybrooke her ice castle, and clearly she wanted to protect it." I know Emma said that, but I was a bit iffy on that.

Then, all it goes back to is semantics then. On the wiki, we have TL and Witchcraft rather than Light and Dark Magic that the show has. I think technically according to the show Ingrid would be witchcraft (or at least Witchcraft with Ice magic) as would Elsa (who shrunk a ship).

I'll put it another way:

Elsa can shrink things. Ingrid can do protection spells. Both have the same powers.

Regina can shrink things. Regina can do protection spells.

So, either Regina can do Ice magic or all three do witchcraft.

Dark and Light magic do similar things, yet are consumed mostly under Witchcraft. So, the Ice Queens' abilities should be no different.