Ancestral Witches

The Ancestral Witches, or Ancestresses, are a trio of three ancient witches representing the symbol of absolute Evil. They caused the destruction of Domino in trying to acquire the Dragon Fire. They killed Dafne during the attack on Domino when she saved Bloom from them. In the French novel adaptation of the movie, their names are stated to be Belladone (Belladona), Lysliss, and Tharma, and their birthplace is said to be the Realm of Obsidian.

They are mentioned in the first season as being the ancestors of the Trix who were trying to find the power of the Dragon's Fire so as to continue the objective and avenge of the Ancestresses. Faragonda and Griffin also mention that they took part in defeating these witches.

They are again mentioned by Faragonda in the second season of the French Version as being under the orders of Lord Darkar when they attacked Domino.

In the third season it is revealed that they were the ones who created Valtor after they found a piece of the Dragon Fire which had mingled with the Darkness, and brought him up as their own son. Faragonda tells Bloom that her father, Oritel, had formed the Company of Light in order to fight the Ancestresses, and that both her parents had disappeared on the day of the final battle between the Company of Light and the witches, as also stated by Hagen in the movie Secrets of the Lost Kingdom. Later in the season, when Valtor claims to have absorbed Miriam and Oritel in his body, Faragonda tries to contact them, she says to Bloom that the essence of the three witches is still present in the Crypt of Cloud Tower, and that they can be contacted from there. Towards the season finale, they try to use Valtor as a medium to wreak havoc in the Magic Dimension, by transforming him in his real, demon form. However, thwy are not successful as Bloom finds and defeats Valtor just before he goes on to obey his mothers' orders. Before being defeated for good, he tries to convince Bloom to join forces with him against the Ancestresses as a means of regaining her parents, to which Bloom does not heed, as she knows that he is in fact lying.

In the movie, the Ancestresses act as the main villains. They are shown as being the prisoners of the Obsidian Circle, where they continually have to bear the presence of Oritel's sword. After Bloom talks with Dafne in her dream, her hope lights up again, causing the piece of the Dragon Fire in the sword also to ignite up. The heat of the Flame baecomes so unbearable to them that they send their servant, Mandragora, to find out where the Dragon Fire is. Mandragora then finds out, and informs the witches that Bloom, whom they had long thought dead, is alive. When the Winx finally enter the Realm of Obsidian, Bloom sees the scene when the Company of Light almost defeated the Ancestresses, and how one of them grabbed Oritel, and how Miriam entered Oritel's sword, before they disappeared in the Obsidian Circle. The witches tell the Winx how they enjoyed torturing the inhabitants of Domino who were also imprisoned in the Obsidian Dimension, and try to convince Bloom to destroy Oritel's sword. They almost succeeded after they showed Bloom a vision of Mandragora at Gardenia, ready to kill her adoptive parents, Mike and Vanessa, atleast till the point where Mike was shown playing with a small. Bloom then told the witches that Mike is allergic to cats, and that their plan had failed, before starting to attack them, almost exhausting her magic powers, the darkness of the Realm of Obsidian absorbing her energy. At that moment, Dafne came to Bloom's help but, even together, both their powers were weakened by the Darkness around them, and the witches became more powerful when Mandragora arrived to help her mistresses. In the climax of the movie, the witches possessed Mandragora and tried to kill Bloom and Daphne, had it not been for Sky who, now being the new king of Eraklyon, used Oritel's sword to pierce Mandragora's body (plus the witches' spirits) as Bloom used all of her Dragon Fire's power to destroy the evil beings. The witches were defeated, Mandragora was killed, and the Realm of Obsidian itself was destroyed, freeing all the inhabitants of Domino, the Specialists, and the Winx. However, at the end of the movie, the witches were shown together with Icy, Darcy and Stormy, the Trix, their heirs, meaning that the ancestors and descendants have now allied against the Winx.

They do not appear at all in the fourth season, but they act as the main villains again, together with the Trix, in the second movie. According to the synopsis, they find the Tree of Life maintaining the blance of positive and negative magic with the help of the Trix, and absorb the essence of Good from it, thus destroying the balance of the Magical Dimension and making the Winx powerless.