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Magic is more of a vibe than anything else. The best magic systems are open-ended but have a specific aesthetic going on.To get back on topic, I never got the idea of magic just being this narrow thing? Like don't get me wrong I will throw my keyboard through the computer screen if you give me that "It's fantasy so whatever goes." B.S. Um no. There have to be rules. But those rules don't have to be exactly the same every single time you tell a magical story.
Like again realistically why can't men be witches? Why do witches always have to mean the exact same thing in every story? I mean maybe if your doing fandom stuff than sure, you gotta stick to whatever rules the canon came up with.
But if your just making up a world why not get creative? I have witches whose power come from puns. I have witches whose power comes from nature. Or witches whose power come from magical animals (sort of like pokemon trainers).
It doesn't always have to be the same old same old. It's the beauty of fantasy. It can be whatever you want as long as it follows consistent rules within the universe.
Also side tangent - what even is medieval times? Seriously. I rebuke it. My witches are chilling out in modern times or in a world that has no concept of real world time periods.