Witchcraft

"Conjuring magic is not an intellectual endeavor. It's emotion. You must ask yourself, "Why am I doing this? Who am I protecting?" Feel it."

- Mr. Gold to Emma

Witchcraft is a type of Magic featured on ABC's Once Upon a Time and Once Upon a Time in Wonderland. It first appears in the first episode of the first season.

Uses
Witchcraft is a form of magic that humans can use. But unlike Fairy Magic or Divine Magic, Witchcraft is strongly tied to emotions and learning. Some practitioners are born with this power and may even use magic right after their birth, like Zelena, while others need a proper teacher to push them to use it like Regina. But even people like Zelena need to be taught in order to control it fully.

Depends on the practitioner, learning magic can sometimes last for years, as the Evil Queen's study approximately lasted for twenty years. But some people like Dark Ones or Merlin did not to need to learn it or any teacher as it was the Holy Grail what granted them to use magic.

Sometimes, the person can have a trouble with using magic because they are in a different land for the first time. This is what happened to Regina Mills after Mr. Gold brought magic to Storybrooke after 28 years. Because according to him, magic is unpredictable in the Land Without Magic. But Regina later used her mother's spell book by smelling of the written words to get the magic flowing again. Underworld is also another place where magic is said to be unpredictable, but this time, Regina's inability to use magic was because she was blocking herself emotionally. It is not known why practitioners sometimes use incantations to use Witchcraft but most of the time, they just simply use it without words.

The use of witchcraft is not an intellectual endeavor, but is tied to strong emotions like love and anger. One way to channel these emotions into magic is to think about and relive a moment that made you angry in the past. Another way is to think about your loved ones and how you want to protect them, and feel it. Just like Ice Magic, people can also lose control of their powers by having emotions like fear or anger, which include but are not limited to thermokinetically hot a bottle of milk, push people off, light the lights on and off and shatter a mirror. But they can overcome this by controlling it with the help of someone they trust.

It is not known if there is a "magic gen", nor is it known that that can pass down. Cora, who could use magic, has two daughters who also can use magic. The same thing also goes to Mr. Gold and his son, Gideon. However, Emma has no known family member who can use magic, yet she uses it.

When used, witchcraft often gives away a pink or violet glow and at times will manifest as a puff of smoke, which can vary in colors, depending on the practitioner.

Known Practitioners

 * Aladdin
 * Amara †
 * The Apprentice †
 * Blind Witch †
 * Cora †
 * The Dragon
 * Emma Swan
 * Evil Queen/Regina Mills
 * Evil Queen (Serum)
 * Gideon
 * Glinda


 * Hook
 * Ingrid †
 * Jafar
 * Maleficent
 * Merlin †
 * Peter Pan †
 * Red Queen
 * Rumplestiltskin/Mr. Gold
 * Rumplestiltskin (Wish Realm)


 * Snow White
 * Trish †
 * Ursula
 * Witch (The Bear King)
 * Witch (The Garden of Forking Paths)
 * Witch of the East
 * Witch of the North
 * Zelena
 * Zoso †

Trivia

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On-Screen Notes

 * Sometimes, when using witchcraft, some incantations are used:
 * When Jafar's summons a dragon, he casts a spell, Ego vocare te dolor. Ego vocare te damnum. Ego vocare te faciam scelus, which is Latin for "I call you pain. I call you loss. I call do (will do) crime.
 * When Cyrus uses a Locator Spell to activate the enchantment, he uses the spell locus mirabilis, which is Latin for "wonderful place".
 * To light up the Jabberwocky's prison, Jafar casts a spell, fiat lux, which is Latin for "let there be light".
 * When Jafar uses Lizard's eyes to view the last person her eyes saw after death, he casts a spell: De visu intueri. Visione revelare, which is Latin for "Look out of sight. Reveal vision."
 * The incantations Jafar uses to take control over the Genie Lamps are:
 * Incipio.Tres genies in utres. Ego te coniungere. Da mihi virtutem! Which is Latin for "Begin. Three genies in bottles. Give me power!" [Note that there is no word for "genie" in Latin, so this word is plain English.]
 * When that doesn't work, he tries Magicae res tres. Vult totam!, which means "Three magic things. He wants all!" Unfortunately, that doesn't work either.

Appearances
Note: "Archive" denotes archive footage.