All practitioners go through the process of learning, and practicing witchcraft, and through this process they become witches. There is no essential element that is in one’s being that makes one a witch.  No one is truly born a witch, you can be born into a family of  witchcraft practitioners, but this in itself does not make you a witch. Individuals who are born into a family of practicing witches are more likely they will take up the practice of witchcraft, and Their family’s tradition. This understanding does not apply itself to traditions, which may employee a form of initiation in order to claim the title of witch.