Witchcraft

The power to use witchcraft, a magical practice relating to witches/warlocks and beldams. Used by Witches. Variation of Supernatural Arts combining Magic and Mysticism.
==Also Called==
*Witch-Related Commands/Spells/Magic-System
*Beldam/Sorceress/Warlock/Witch Magic
*Wicked Witch Magic
*Sorcery
*Maleficium
*Witch Magic/Witch Powers ￼
==Capabilities==
Users can perform witchcraft, a magical form, more commonly known as mystic art of a particularly craft designed, associated, or partaken by witches/beldams/warlocks (either loosely or closely), to harness magic and supernatural powers. This same magical practice means can source a witch's power with precise instructions using various kinds of materials, tools, and ingredients. Either coming from or are connected to them, gaining many forms of magical abilities and spell-casting that involve cauldrons, brooms, herbs, and many objects connected to witches.
Witchcraft is a system of Magic that is practiced and utilized by all witches. This type of Magic originated and come from depending on the source the triple goddess and the horned god or darker forces witchcraft in its intensity, as well as power are connected to the energy of earth and the combined powers of Femininity and Masculinity.
Sorcerers who use this kind of Magic are usually the one who got their power at birth, which means they are born with witchcraft and have the ability to control it. Witchcraft can be passed down from generation to generation, depending on the verse one is using. For example, in the Marvel Comic Universe, Natalya Maximoff, the Scarlet Witch before Wanda and her mother, inherited her magic from her father, the Scarlet Warlock, and later passed it on to her daughter Wanda.
Witchcraft traditionally means the use of magic or supernatural powers. The belief in witchcraft gradually dwindled during and after the Age of Enlightenment. Contemporary cultures that believe in magic and the supernatural often believe in witchcraft. Anthropologists have applied witchcraft to similar beliefs and occult practices described by many non-European cultures. Cultures that have adopted the English language will also call these practices "witchcraft." The concept of witchcraft and the belief in its existence have persisted throughout recorded history. It has been found at various times among different cultures.
Witchcraft is a very powerful form of harnessing the powers of magic. Still, it may need a magical source/catalyst to activate its abilities. It can be connected with magical energies or mysterious beings such as deities, demons, or fairies to grant them their powers. Or just be a matter of tapping into their internal magic without the need for external sources. Depending on what power source they harness, witches can gain specific abilities from said source.
==Applications==
*Magic Arts: Witchcraft is a form of magic arts, associated with witches and harnessing of magic as they are capable of using an esoteric class of practices based around paranormal phenomena using magical powers that only witches know how to use.
**Dark Arts: Witchcraft can associate with Dark Arts, a vicious system of techniques based around a darker side of magic that can involve curses and dangerous forms of magic.
**Herbalism: By studying and practicing the usage of medicinal plants, fungi, minerals and animal parts witches can create various potions, ointments and unguents that can heal and induce other effects.
**Magic Channeling: By harnessing and channeling magical and supernatural forces witches can utilize any effect they want including the influence in arcane energy that allows them a greater control over certain forces bound to energy.
**Spell Casting: Witchcraft can harness magic for spells, series of magical effects casted from chants, but they can also take the form of specific thoughts, gestures, rituals, and other actions. If the witch/warlock is powerful or skilled enough, they can cast their spells as nonverbal, which doesn't require them to say the incantations to perform the spell.
**White Arts: Witchcraft can associate with White Arts, a benevolent system of harness magic of a purer side of magic that is typically used for helping other people by healing the mind, body, or soul.
**Personal Magic: Witches are born with the ability to use magic. Their supernatural powers are passed on to them through blood from their ancestors, and are bound to their emotions, thoughts, and souls. witches about drawing magic from outside sources or restrain from rules that would normally hinder their use of magic for a certain amount of time.
*Mystic Object: Witchcraft can rely on magical object that grants forms mystic powers that can include wands, staffs, rings, cloth, and weapons, depending on the power of these objects that allow a powerful magic user to unleash the full extent of their skills.
**Broom Magic: In the context of witchcraft, broomstick is likely to refer to the broom as a whole, known as a besom /ˈbiːzəm/ is a broom, a household implement used for sweeping. The term is now mostly reserved for a traditional broom constructed from a bundle of twigs tied to a stout pole. The twigs could be broom (i.e., Genista, from which comes the modern name "broom" for the tool), heather, or similar.
***Broom Flight: Broomstick are famously known for flying in the folklore of witches, as they are seen flying in the air and many legends and myths that influence most of their history. When using brooms to fly they tend to bring fear onto people due to magic.
**Magic Cauldron: Cauldrons are a primary tool to channel magical powers from or into a magically enchanted cauldron, a kettle used by the arcanely trained, granting them magical powers enabling them to cast more powerful spells and create potions.
***Potion Creation: By creating potions, the substances with magical properties grant enhancing physical and mental abilities, healing, granting powers, changing shape, or bewitching someone depending on the kind of potion that is made.
*Personal Familiar: Witchcraft can involve in inheriting familiars (sometimes referred to as familiar spirits), were believed to be supernatural entities that would assist witches and cunning folk in their practice of magic. According to records of the time, those alleged to have had contact with familiar spirits reported that they could manifest in numerous forms.
**Familiar Summoning: Familiars are loyal to their witches as they are followed, they’re every command for whatever reason when summoned, regardless of their known locations all familiars return to their witches.
**Familiar Physiology The nature of familiars is unknown due the variety and types they are from small animal (such as a witch's cat) but can be anything, including demons, goblins or even human beings, always having bound to their witches in a master-and-servant type of relationship.
**Magical Companion Creature Physiology: Familiars are known to be pure arcane beings in the magical world, serving their masters by using their own magic to add to their witches and assist them in times of need.
*Supernatural Traits: Witchcraft can grant witches magical traits that grants them their more active magical powers, enhanced physicality, telekinesis, precognition and so on, all given qualities that witches inherit from their bloodline or recent given magic.
**Supernatural Condition: Traits can enhance their physical capabilities, attributes and aspects at a supernatural level, through their magic as they can gain strengths, durability and more depending on the magic that gives them their powers.
***Supernatural Beauty: Most witches are famed for their beauty, as the gain eternal youth and beauty that comes from the magic they covet, and where desired by many because of it.
***Supernatural Ugliness: Most witches don’t inherit beauty at all but can be cursed with an ugliness that portrait them as hideous hags that can be feared throughout most myths and legends. However, these hag-like appearances have been portrayed as "false" and "stereotypical" in some forms of media.
==Sub-Groups of Magic==
*Animal Magic
**Feline Magic
**Frog Magic
*Benefic/Malefic Force Manipulation
**Dark/Light Magicks
*Divine-Demonic Forces Manipulation
**Divine/Demonic Magic
* Fairy Magic
*Nature Magic 
**Disaster Magic
**Elemental Magic
**Season Magic
*Occultism 
**Contract Bestowal - Witches can possibly obtain powers from deals with "Mystical Entities."
***Soullessness - a possible consequence of these supernatural deals! Possibly of a being of demonic nature, some witches will sacrifice their souls for power!
**Forbidden Knowledge - Some knowledge that witches obtain seem to be forbidden to use by common magic users.
***Dark Alchemy
==Associations==
*Beldam Physiology
*Bogeyman Physiology
*Celtic Deity
*Classic Monster Physiology
*Witch Physiology
*Magical Human
**Superior Magical Human
*Monster Physiology
*Slavic Deity
*Sorcery
*Witch
==Limitations==
*Christian Magic/Holy Magic/Fire Magic/Iron Magic/Salt Magic/Water Magic/Anti-Magic/Magic Destruction/Energy Absorption/Immunity/Negation/Sealing
*Supernatural hunters are a dangerous enemy.
==Known Users==
==Gallery==
File:Eda-Fire-Shield.gif|Eda Clawthorne (The Owl House) uses Wild Magic.
File:Trix (Winx Club).jpeg|The Trix (Winx Club) utilize the Witches' Magic.
File:W.I.T.C.H..jpg|Guardians of the Veil (W.I.T.C.H.) with elemental magic.
File:CHYKN.jpg|C.H.Y.K.N. (W.I.T.C.H.) was formerly Guardians of the Veil.
File:Sanderson.jpg|The Sanderson Sisters (Hocus Pocus) who can uses magics and riding broomsticks.
File:1561 Ursula 40 detail.jpg|Ursula the Sea-Witch (The LIttle Mermaid) who transformed Ariel into a human.
File:Morgana.jpg|Morgana the Sea-Witch (The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea.), Ursula's sister, who can transform Melody into a mermaid.
File:Baba yaga.jpg|Baba Yaga (Slavic Folklore/Mythology)
File:Cailleach.jpg|Cailleach Bheur (Celtic Folklore/Mythology)
File:WuyaColles.jpg|Wuya the Heylin Witch (Xiaolin Showdown/Chronicle)
File:Blair Witch.jpg|Blair Witch (The Blair Witch Project)
File:Coraline Beldam Other World.gif|The Beldam/Other Mother (Coraline)
File:Sabrina Spellman Clothing Change.gif|Sabrina Spellman (Sabrina the Teenage Witch franchise)
File:Scarlet Witch.jpg|Wanda Maximoff/Scarlet WItch (Marvel Comics)
File:Luzluz.gif|Luz Noceda (The Owl House) who became a witch.
File:Madam Mim Shapeshifter (Disney).jpg|Madam MIm (Disney's The Sword in the Sword)
File:Hecate-1.png|Hecate (DIsney's Hercules)
File:Jadis the White Witch.jpg|Jadis the White Witch (The Chronicles of Narnia series)
File:Kiki (Kikis Delivery Service).gif|Kiki (Kiki's Delivery Service) is a witch-in-training.
File:Kiki's Delivery Service Kokiri Herbal Potion.gif|Kokiri (Kiki's Delivery Service)
File:Charmcaster beam.jpg|The Charmcaster (Ben 10)
File:Gwen Tennyson (Ben 10) dimension view.gif|Gwendolyn "Gwen" Tennyson (Ben 10)
File:Vanessa Enoteca's Thread Magic Black Clover.gif|Vanessa Enoteca (Black Clover) who use Grimoire and Wand with Thread Magic.
File:Charmed-04.jpg|Piper and Phoebe Halliwell and Paige Matthews(Charmed Franchise)are The Charmed Ones, powerful sister witches who cast spells, make potions, possess powers, etc.
File:Bonnie Telekinesis2.gif|Bonnie Bennett(The Vampire Diaries Franchise)is a powerful witch capable of great telekinetic, pyrokinetic, psychic and magical feats.
File:Winx Club Witches Magic Training.gif|Headwitchstress Griffin and the witches of Cloud Tower (Winx Club)
Morgana casting a spell.jpeg|Morgana’s Spell Casting (Darkwing Duck)
File:Bayonetta 2 Ceraza Jeanne.png| The Umbra Witches clan (Bayonetta), a group of women practicing Witchcraft
File:Elizabeth-the-white-queen-bbc-35215122-595-396.webp|Elizabeth Woodville ( The White Queen) when she was only fourteen-years-old, she was secretly trained by her mother, Jacquetta, in the art of manipulating supernatural or mystical energy to alter the fabric of reality and defy the laws of nature. Though Elizabeth never claimed to be a true witch like many of her enemies were quick to accuse her of being, she still emerged as a potent, if sometimes ineffective, practitioner of the mystic arts with time.
File:Jacquetta of Luxembourg.webp|When Jacquetta of Luxembourg (The White Queen) was only fourteen-years-old, Jacquetta was secretly trained by her grand-aunt in the art of manipulating supernatural or mystical energy to alter the fabric of reality and defy the laws of nature. Though Jacquetta was initially afraid of her own abilities, and was often forced to be discreet with her practice due to persecutions on witchcraft, she still emerged as an accomplished practitioner of the mystic arts in time, and later even passed down her knowledge and skills to her oldest daughter, Elizabeth Woodville.
File:Witch TS3 Supernatural.png|Witches (The Sims 3: Supernatural) can cast a variety of spells, charms and curses. They have a hidden skill known as Spell Casting.
File:Draculaura Render 2 G3 .webp|draculaura (monster high 2022)
File:Absolute Wonder Womab.webp|Taught by her adopted mother Hecate, Wonder Woman (DC Comics) of the Absolute of the universe is a witch raised in Hell.
File:Wall Generation Queen of Hearts (Descendants- The Rise of Red) 480 1.gif|The Queen of Hearts uses her cards to block the exits
File:Card Cutting Queen of Hearts (Descendants- The Rise of Red) 480 2.gif|The Queen of Hearts destroys Fairy Godmother's wand
File:Screenshot 2024-10-08 7.33.13 PM.png|The Evil Queen's transformation Potion
File:Screenshot 2024-10-12 11.35.40 AM.png|Bridget's fabulous flamingo feather cupcakes turning Fay's wand pink.
File:Hermione Granger (Harry Potter) Immobulus.gif|Hermione Granger freezes the Cornish pixies
==Videos==
Supernatural- Dean is Hexed By Witches - Season 3 -CLIP- - TNT-2
File:Immortality Killed The Witch-2
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