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Witches, in fact, undergo the opposite metamorphosis. Highlighting for the ecological niche or witches and wizards are extremely compatible for apex predators who should be in constant conflict.
A witch is ‘born at home’. Sometimes this means biologically from an older witch who is preparing to leave her home and enter her migratory stage (nearly always, in such cases, with the fantastical illusion of her death being the symbolic spark of her migration and given rise of her progeny’s inheritance of the home. As if a witch, one born of home and hearth, could burn!). Other times by leaving her home empty, all her herbs, cauldrons, and sundries patiently waiting and covered in gathering dust. For what witch does not enjoy ‘wiping out’ out old whilst claiming a home for herself? Thus letting the home itself mystically birth a new witch from the raging indignity and need of a woman wandering in.
The migratory witch, being well learned and done with this shit, carries with her only what she’s going to need in a suitably sized handbag. Which for reasons known only to them are never as big as a backpack and never smaller than a loaf of bread. From which she can, as needed, pull out any meal, potion, or temporary house she might desire. Never a permenant house though. For they are homes and she has left home.
Not many people understand the migratory pattern of witches because they are cursedly hard to find when of such an age. Just as wizards are excitable and chaotically loud when migrating but quiet and reclusive (some might even say shut ins) when older witches too alternate this. A witch at home is very noticeably a witch at home. They may hide from constables or nay’er-do-wells but they are social and extroverted with neighbours and random passersby’s in need. One need not look long to find someone who knows both where they live and how to get there. Older wizard who’ve settled in the area are not very likely to talk to anyone long enough to ask. Thus the two may comfortably settle in the same area.
Migratory witches, however, are outstandingly secretive. They will go to great lengths to hide themselves (sometimes even in plain sight). Such that even if a young wizard were curious he’d be unlikely to surpass her cunning to find her. After all, he cannot fathom why his granny might be a person worth questioning about such a thing. For even in their migratory stage many witches are still drawn to helping other ‘learn a thing or two’.
I feel like witches are sedentary and wizards are migratory. A witch has a home, a cauldron, herbs, you go to them with your problem. A wizard wanders, disappears, shows up at inconvenient times to fix nothing. am i making sense