Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24674051-20160216053257/@comment-25926288-20160216132554

Now to the real deal, I categorize magic users in a similar way. But first a little history.

History: Upon the Blessing of Merlin, witchcraft entered the realm of possibility. MErlin was blessed with such powers and he controlled the spread of witchcraft. He only had one apprentice, but potentially would have had more. After Nimue became the Dark One, she and the other Dark Ones taught the secrets of magic (aka Witchcraft) to several apprentices, who had apprentices, and so on. And that would explain magic in the FTL today. Other than that, I don't think human magic users were common. Ice magic seems to be its own entity, just as light magic.

Onto categories

Born: Emma (Light with witchcraft abilities), Ingrid and Elsa (Ice with witchcraft abilities), Zelena (____ with witchcraft abilities)

Taught: Amara (who taught Cyrus and his brothers), Jafar (taught by Amara), Regina and Cora (taught by Rumple)

Blessed/Cursed: Dark Ones, Merlin, Genies, Cruella (through the Author), Malcolm/Peter Pan (through the shadow gaining access to all of Neverland's magic aka Pixie Dust).

So, the Blind Witch may have been taught, but shes also cannibalistic for some reason. The Oz Witches I'd say are taught by someone.

Maleficent is simply a magical creature, a were-dragon, of sorts. Therefore, I think she learned magic, collects magical items, like her staff, and simply is a were-dragon, which explains why Lily turned into a dragon with no magical experience.

Peter Pan is usually were I tend to disagree with the wiki. I think Pan's magic is simply the magic of Pixie Dust with Neverland itself acting as his wand, if you get what I mean. Either that, or his magic was simply the result of the shadow. I think there is truly no magic called "Belief" as the Island is filled to the brim with pixie dust (that requires you to believe, coincedcence).