i found your blog a few days ago and LOOOOVE your writing!!
it also got me wonderin - did you ever explain how witchcraft and witch transformations work?
...I am so normal while receiving asks I swear--
AAAAAAAAHHH I am so happy you like my blog which slowly is turning into Winx Talk where I explain everything with evidence and show people it's time to rewatch OG show with a new set of eyes <3
Witchcraft in my universe is simply what witches (magical users who utilize negative emotions in order to cast spells) study as a basic magical course. Call it how to use the emotions properly in order to avoid inbalance, chaos and failure in casting a spell. It's all about concentration and understanding how ones magic flows in their veins. Witchcraft is also for any magical user or person/creature with magic potential who wants to use negative emotions as a source.
Eg Riven using mental link is technically practicing witchcraft.
On the other hand we have Light magic studies which is for magical users who use positive emotions in order to cast a spell. All of course has its limits. Anger as I explained in my megapost is a fuel behind the emotion rather then the emotion we use for the spell.
Witches can use love as a fuel and feel sadistic, craving to cause harm and cruelty, want to cause pain.
Fairies can use anger and justify their actions by saying they were guided by the want to fix the world, justice, to return the peace to Magix while at the same time killing witches.
Transformation for Witches is more for a show. They have no limits like fairies but because of that they often spend more energy on average to cast spells. Hence why witches use herbs, potions, magical objects and so on.
Griffin often meditates to save her energy and when she is imprisoned she chose to create a potion rather than try to create powerful enough spell.
Also the transformation is rather something witches can choose to manifest rather than shift into like fairies. With age fairies learn to use their magic without a need to transform. It's more common for witches in the coven to transform to show (again) their unity as a group, as sisters of the coven. Icy, Darcy and Stormy have similarly styled looks to show them as an union when they work together. Even going as far as having their initials.
Witches rarely but can use vacuums to find energy if they themselves are low on it. Also it helps to strengthen the spell. It works like Catalysis in chemical reaction. It makes it quicker and smoother and uses less energy.
Again thank you so much for reading and I hope you will enjoy my blog <3
