Witchworks Wednesday:

And we’re back with another episode of The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina! As always, spoilers ahead! Ahoy ye scurvy hooors!

Sidenote: I keep trying to successfully embed little gifs but so far it’s nothing but FAIL.

Per usual, we pick up where we left off: Principal Hawthorne has been possessed by none other than the Debil himself. Boy they really want Sabrina for TEAM SATAN.

The majority of this episode centers around Sabrina’s trial for breach of promise. Poor Hilda has to give up a tooth for collateral and with their powers locked up, she and Zelda are aging rapidly, which will continue until Sabrina gets in line.

We see Zelda trying to help in her own way by appealing to Blackwood, but then they kiss and some of her hair falls out and…ew.

On Ambrose’s suggestion, she visits a man named Daniel Webster. Ambrose says, “He’s a mortal but rumored to have beaten the Devil himself.”

Thanks to a dive down a Wikipedia rabbit hole, I learned that there really was a Daniel Webster. He was, among other things, a state representative of New Hampshire and Massachusettes, the Secretary of State under 3 presidents, and one of the most prominent attorneys in New Hampshire. The neat part is that there was a short story written by Stephen Vincent Bonet called “The Devil and Daniel Webster.” In it, Webster defends a farmer who sold his soul to the Devil. He also drank A LOT and ended up dying of a subdural hematoma and cirhossis of the liver. Ouch.

I digress.

Webster does defend Sabrina in the infernal court and here’s another neat thing: when they show the flashback of Sabrina and her moment with the Book of the Beast, we can see the names of Ursula Kemp and Sarah Good.

The big reveal here is that everybody has screts and Hilda’s is a doozy. First, we must know that Sabrina’s father, a powerful warlock, signed over his firstborn so he could marry Sabrina’s mother, a human. But that’s not all – Sabrina’s mother had her baptized, as evidenced by the baptismal certificate Hilda produces, having be a witness.

Sabrina feels betrayed, and the court declares she will retain her life but has to go to the Academy of Unseen Arts and attend weekly black mass.

The side plot involves Ambrose, who has been keeping the dead witch-boy’s iguana (Zelda threatens to make it into a purse). He meets the guy’s boyfriend and they have a little tryst in Ambrose’s room. The next morning, the iguana is dead.

Writing Spider Prediction: This boyfriend dude? Luke? HE’S the witch killer Ambrose has been investigating.

We also learn

Ros is going blind (ugh…boo)

Harvey got lost in the mine and saw the Devil (TERRIBLE)

Wardwell is still gunning to get Sabrina (I’m kind of over this story line…)

Hilda and Zelda share a room (er…okay?)

 

My questions for this episode:

Why are the old aunts sharing a room?

Is Luke the witch killer?

WHEN DOES THIS SHOW TAKE PLACE?

 

I’m still having a hard time with the old trope that witches are evil and in league with the devil, but I remain hopeful.