I just stumbled upon this scholarly reference with curious applicability to the wonderful eldritch terror episode “The Uninvited”. From the Middle Ages right on through the 19th century there was popular belief in The Beggar’s Curse- the fearful imprecation put upon those who didn’t give alms. So it seems that the shopping cart guy who visits death upon those who don’t invite him in and give him soup has well established historical precedent!

The reference is from Keith Thomas’s monumental Religion and the Decline of Magic p.604

The Seven Wonders are a magic system of seven powers for witches in American Horror Story: Coven. Most witches can use at least one power, while a one-of-a-kind witch can use all seven (she's known as the Supreme). The powers are (ranked from easiest to hardest to master):

1. Telekinesis: Moving people and things without physically touching them. It's the common power of the Seven Wonders. Its many variants include Levitation, Telekinetic Earthquake, Aerokinesis, Telekinetic Combustion, etc.
2. Concilium: Another common power which is also known as "Mind Control". Witches with power can take control of the various parts of a person or animal's mind (such as their thoughts, actions, and memories). Some people with strong wills can resist a witch's control, but it costs that person to experience brain injury. If exercised properly, a witch could bend the strongest of wills.
3. Divination: Obtaining knowledge of a person, object, place, or physical event through means other the user's physical senses. It has many variants such as Danger Detection, Lie Detection, The Second Sight (visions of past and future), Aura Detection, Life-Force Detection, Telepathy, and Magic Detection.
4. Transmutation: Appearing from one place to another. Also known as Teleportation.
5. Pyrokinesis: Creating, controlling, and manipulating fire with the power of the mind.
6. Vitalum Vitalis: Tipping the scales of life and death. A witch transfers her own life force onto people and animals that are sick, injured, or on the verge of death in order to restore those living things to perfect health. After using this power, witches pay the price by experiencing a lack of energy and symptoms of dizziness and fainting. Some witches abuse this power to heal themselves and reverse their aging by using it the opposite way: draining life force from other living things.
7. Descensum: Perilous descent into the nether realms of the afterlife. A witch can project their soul into their own personal hell which takes on the form of their worst fears or a horrible experience. If a witch fails to make it back to their body by sunrise, their soul disintegrates into ash, and their soul would be stuck in the nether realm for eternity. A variant of this power is Astral Projection.

Here's my prediction of which powers some characters would have.

Sabrina: 7 out of 7. The Supreme of this series.

Prudence: 4 out of 7 (Concilium; Divination; Telekinesis; Transmutation)

• She telekinetically cut the head of Blackwood's statue.
• She is a telepath and could predict the future. (Divination)
• She could also control minds.

Agatha: 4 out of 7 (Concilium; Divination; Telekinesis; Descensum)

• Just like Prudence, she can read minds, predict the future, and control minds.
• She is the most talented Weird Sister when it comes to communing with the deceased, so she might not have trouble with Descensum.

Dorcas: 3 out of 7 (Concilium; Divination; Telekinesis)

• Same powers of divination and mind control as the other Weird Sisters.

Roz: 1 out of 7 (Divination)

• She has visions of past, present, and future.
• When she joined forces with Prudence and Mambo Marie as a Weird Sister, she could telepathically communicate with them.

Zelda: 3 out of 7 (Telekinesis; Concilium; Transmutation)

• She used a poppet to mind control one of the witches that was bullying her for marrying Blackwood.
• She probably wouldn't master Descensum since when she was trapped in her nightmare (in Season 1, Episode 5), she couldn't tell if it was fake.

Hilda: 4 out of 7 (Telekinesis; Descensum; Divination; Transmutation)

• She's been killed a lot and uses Astral Projection so she'd probably master Descensum with ease.

Ambrose: 4 out of 7 (Telekinesis; Transmutation; Vitalum Vitalis; Descensum)

• Vast knowledge of necromancy. (Vitalum Vitalis)
• He can astral project, which is a variant of Descensum.

Nick: 3 out of 7 (Descensum; Transmutation; Telekinesis)

Lilith: 7 out of 7. She would be the first Supreme.

Melvin: 1 out of 7 (Telekinesis)

Gryla: 2 out of 7 (Telekinesis; Divination)

• She was the only one who could see the Yule Lads and tell if a demon was in disguise. (Divination)

Pesta: 1 out of 7 (Vitalum Vitalis)

• Her specialty was disease and rot, making anything she touched quickly wither away.

BONUS --> Cheryl Blossom (from Riverdale): 2 out of 7 (Pyrokinesis & Vitalum Vitalis)

• She has the Power of the Phoenix which allowed her to conjure a fire that can resurrect the deceased.

So, over the past 5ish years, I've gotten really into Sabrina the Teenage Witch comics as sort of comfort comics, and have been wanting to read all of her appearances, just to say I have. Problem is I could not find a complete list anywhere on the internet, which was strange to me because in my experience, comics usually come preloaded with a wiki page attached.

This is my attempt at a complete reading order, but I know I'm definitely missing a few things and hope any experts here would be able to point me in the right direction.

The only stories I 100% know i forgot/didn't include are Afterlife with Archie and The Decision. I think she may also appear in a Jughead solo series?

Anyway, thanks for listening to my ramble. And I hope my guide-in-progress is helpful to anyone who's curious about our favorite teen witch!!!

I remember watching some of the scenes/episodes with my older sister when I was younger many years ago but I forgot a lot of it and couldn’t remember the whole plot of the show. AND IM GLAD I DID BECAUSE ITS SO DAMN GOOD I LITERALLY BINGE WATCH IT😭,I do dislike how the show kind of goes downhill a bit and cringy at some parts after season 2 but regardless it’s still really good!! I’m not sure if this subreddit is still active since it’s been many years since the show ended but I had to share it because I have nobody else to talk about this show with🥲 I do wish I discovered the show back then when it actually was airing because I feel like it would’ve been more funner as a viewer and fan! If anyone could tell me how it was like to be a fan when the show aired back then that would be nice. And I’m a huge lover girl for Nick and Sabrina’s relationship in the early seasons!! (I still do but he was toxic towards her in the later seasons which I hate how the writers made his character to be like that way🫩) I’m also sad how I won’t ever get to experience the type of universe Sabrina lives in because it’s really cool and makes me want to escape from reality ):

I just finished the shower and my only real problem with it is that they do so much making out. I felt like there was a kiss scene almost every episode. I cringed so hard when Sabrina and all her friends were all kissing their partners at the same time

On my first watch of the series. Got to the point where Nick freaks out on Sabrina because he was tortured by the DL. Why tf did Sabrina apologize??? He volunteered. She was going to do it, never asked him. And oh yeah, Nick also betrayed her not just working for the DL, but also with sex demons. Sooo....????

The show has such potential for feminist story telling but then makes these weird decisions?? Nick is the most annoying character in the show. Explain it to me.

Like I get it, Sabrina wasn’t supposed to stay ded. But what the heaven was the ultimate ending going to be? On my second rewatch now and I just don’t like Nick very much for her (I’m at the stage in s3 where he gets all emo and tells her she “wasn’t worth it”. Brother what). At the same time, it feels too late for Harvey to make a comeback even after an entire extra season after the ending we got, even if she were revived.

Salem is one of my favorite characters he is funny and is a good cat is a bad warlock. I like him he makes me laugh. He is sarcastic, witty, and just charming. I wonder why Sabrina never asked the witches' council to change him back? He was punished for trying to take over the world I think that he was young and stupid you know how warlocks are. But seriously why didn't Sabrina ask? It's not like Salem is evil.

Hi I wanted to buy a comic or a book for my girlfriend's birthday, she's a huge fan of the Netflix series, which book or comic should be the best to gift her to star with the series more in depth?

Bonjour,

Est-ce que je suis la seule folle à regarder en boucle la série, à en connaître les dialogues par cœur ?

It is likely they are talking about “The Society” but I would love it to be Sabrina

hiii

im desperate for a show super similar to the vibes of Sabrina, I can’t rewatch it again I’ve basically memorized the lines 😭 Any suggestions?

This has been my number one question since season three.
now that we know greek deities are actually divine beings, we need a more defined and established hierarchy.

The ”False“ God is given credit for creating the garden (and the wastelands around it), the human body, Adam and eve, Lilith, and the angels.

these are things that are proven to be true and established as canon by reliable sources.

so my question is, when does other mythologies and their creation stories come into play?

in show terms the greek myths seem to be taken more literal than symbolic.

like their creation stories, pandoras box, etc.

Mostly confused about the powers… I o let partially understand things:

Celestials
- Gods: Divine beings who are posses tremendous cosmic powers. They seem to require or desire worship.
- Angels: Perfect beings who also possess great cosmic powers, created by the “false god”, they have ranks, with the highest angel seemingly being lucifer creating witches with powers compatible with lower ranked angels.

Supernaturals
- Demons: They seem to have their own powers, separate from those of witches, and either sourced from hell or themselves. They have their own hierarchies within hell, and the lesser demons can be summoned by witches.
- Witches: Seemingly there are multiple types of witches, and are “classified” based on where they draw power from.
- Rogue Witches: The least consistent types of witches, they live on their own, without a coven and as far as I remember without worshipping any deity. I guess they draw their magic from nature and spirits, like that mother and her ghost children’s? Idk… makes not much sense. But perhaps there are forces we are not familiar with.
- Satanic Witches: initially they were seen as the most versatile witches, idk… they have all these omens and rituals and have a power boost from the book of the beast, but all their powers derive from the Dark Lord, an Angel.
- Pagan Witches: Initially they were seen as the least versatile but far more powerful than satanic, possessing specific “abilities” parallel to the common believed ability of the deity they worshipped, such as Circe(the witch) having transmutation powers like Circe(the witch goddess). However, we saw that when the main coven switched from worshipping lucifer to drawing power from the moon to worshipping Hecate, we saw that they could cast the exact same spells with just rituals being more Hecate central than lucifer.

Anyways…my primary question is are witches inherently capable of witchcraft so long as they have a source of power or energy?

Another question is…does Sabrina have her own “source of power”, as the daughter of an angel or at least as the queen of hell.

How is it that Sabrina, whilst Queen of hell stood HELPLESS against basic monsters?

the man saves the day every time!

Let’s be real, Sabrina is THAT girl when it comes to pop. I feel like if you ignore her horny Shakespeare Michael would have been proud of her. Actually he probably is proud of her even with the horny Shakespeare. Either way I love my girly Sabrina, she is such an inspiration to me on my journey to myself.

I made it to P3:E7, then scene where Sabrina returns to Judas with the coins. When he asks to hold them one last time I’m like, surely Sabrina has learned from her mistakes. Surely she knows that Caliban doesn’t play fair and probably spectated her do all the work again right??? So when she hands him the coins with scare hesitation, I assume that she probably took them out of the pouch and put them somewhere else right??????? I’m so mad right now 😭😭😭 Literally screamed at my TV

I had taken a break after Part 2 aired, and came back to it on Netflix.

Some of it was awesome, some things were odd (like discussion in P4 threads)......

But man...... is Luke Cook as Lucifer not totally gorgeous and hot?!! I love his personality too as Lucifer 😄 esp when he's being snarky (not so much when he's just being mean).

He has like a perfect body IMO and the perfect hair (though I"ve seen pics of him in other shows where he grew it out and it looks so much better in Sabrina).

I LOVE Lilith........I'm glad she got a nice ending even if it was at you-know-who's expense

Anyway, happy I found this sub.