Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-8345449-20140505145338

So we learned in 3.20 that each Ozian witch represents one cardinal direction (similar to the book except they are all Good) and each direction represents one special aspect of magic.

North - wisdom

East - courage

West - innocence

South - love

The four ingredients that Zelena needed for her time travel spell were brains, courage, new-born baby and heart. Which are metaphorically very similar to what the four witches represent. Zelena also drew a really huge compass on the ground and I assumed she placed each ingredient in their representative directions.

I wonder if the other 3 witches were also the original cowardly lion, tinman and scarecrow from Oz. And then, why did Zelena have to travel all the way to Enchanted Forest to find the ingredients she needs. Why not just extract them from her (former) sister-witches? And if baby = innocence, why must it be specifically Snow's baby and not say, Aurora's? Surely any new-born is as innocent as can be.

Also, besides being "resilient", does Regina's heart = love as well? Glinda said that innocence reclaimed is just as powerful as innocence born. So maybe true love reclaimed is just as powerful as true love born; which would explain Regina's use of white magic despite not being a product of true love like Emma. 