Originally Posted by
kjn
It pretty much comes down to classication and outlook here. A friend of my wife who was (and maybe still is) a practicing witch said that to her, magic was basically concentrated prayer, and the Amazons certainly did pray to the Greek gods, even in Marston's run.
But more fundamentally, the Amazons are a culture steeped in myth and the divine. They have direct personal relationships with their gods. They believe in omens, and let those guide their actions as a society. They grew up with dragons, griffons, pegasi, meat-eating horses, and cthonic beings. The items they create are imbued with what to the outside world are magical properties—an invisible plane, thin light sheets of metal that can turn bullets, the purple healing ray. To them, this is just something they learn to do, not something that is viewed as special or impossible. To them, this is art and craft, not magic, and that influences how it is presented to us readers. But to Man's World, it might just as well be magic. And I imagine part of the reason several of the magicians of DC are making wide circles around Wonder Woman is that they know that compared to her, they likely appear as dilettantes, and they might see how she alters reality around her just by being there.
BTW, the witches in Justice League Dark can just as easily be called priestesses of the cult of Hecate—another case of magic being partly a matter of perspective.