Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25926288-20161003213811

Partial theory, partial qestion. Question: Can an individual without hands wield magic?

Despite my greatest attempts to not accept this theory, but I now stand firm that magic is an internal, rather than environmental thing. (From experience, try not to think to hard over Once's rules). There's plenty of evidence behind it. We see that rather for show or actuality that the practioners tend to use their hands when they cast magic. Magic blocking spells tend to focus on hand binding, through cuffs, or on the wrist.

Zelena used magic to heal herself when she lost only one hand. Hook used magic as the Dark One and he clearly has a hand. But have we ever seen personal magic who didn't have hands?

Just noticed with all the poofing that Lana and Robert decided to actually use hand motions (sometimes they choose not to). 