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Father Blackwood
Father Faustus Blackwood
Played By: Richard Coyle
The High Priest of the Church of Night and Dean of the Academy of the Unseen Arts
- Adaptational Name Change: In the comics, the High Priest of the Church of Night was called Father Alphonse Louis Constant (later changed to Fr. Joseph Constant).
- Benevolent Boss: Subverted. He seems to actually be a pretty fair and effective headmaster, even checking in with Sabrina's social and emotional well-being, but of course it's all an act and in the last episode of Season Two, he decides to poison his entire coven and elope with his daughters rather than let his coven bow to Sabrina.
- Big Bad Wannabe: Subverted. While Father Blackwood is an antagonist and a powerful source of problems, Madam Satan does not consider them equals and she ultimately is the main threat of Season One, not he. While she works much more subtly and has more than once succeeded, Blackwood has failed many times and his tactics have only made Sabrina more wary and confrontational against him, as well as her family. By the end of season one, it's implied Sabrina is already more powerful than he is, whereas Madam Satan still has a fighting chance and the element of surprise. He becomes much more competent in season 2.
- Co-Dragons: As far as he is concerned, since he answers directly to the Dark Lord, he is on equal footing with Madam Satan. She seems to disagree.
- Didn't Think This Through: It takes Prudence asking if Sabrina will be a Blackwood too for him to realize that, as Zelda is Sabrina's legal guardian, marrying her will make him responsible for Sabrina.
- Even Evil Has Standards: He's willing to have "revelations" that conveniently help him cement his power, use the celebration of a high holy day as a political football, and even potentially sacrifice and eat his own daughter, among other things, but that doesn't mean he's alright with profaning the holy day itself.
- Evil Brit: A sophisticated English bad guy.
- Evil Is Petty: When told by the Dark Lord that he would henceforth have to be subservient to Sabrina, Blackwood decided that he would rather see the entire coven dead than let Sabrina have it.
- Evil Sorcerer: With a Deal with the Devil in place and being head of a Satanist church, it doesn't get more evil than that.
- Evil Virtues: Integrity, honour, loyalty. He doesn't always live up to them himself, but firmly believes that they're integral to the Church of Night's overall health.
- Faux Affably Evil: He likes to pretend to be kind and have other witches’ best interests in mind, but this veneer will crack the minute he stops getting his way.
- Femme Fatalons: A male example. During his first appearance the camera constantly focuses on his clawed fingernails and he's definitely untrustworthy.
- Gentleman Wizard: He's got the look and in public tries to present himself as such.
- Heir Club for Men: Longs for a healthy male heir to continue his legacy. It's why he passes over female bastards like Prudence and is completely unbothered by his wife's death as long as a healthy son is born.
- Hypocrite: For all his supposed loyalty to The Dark Lord, he's not unwilling to fake a "revelation" from The Dark Lord when it suits his interests, such as agreeing to call off the Feast of Feasts in order to keep the secret of Lady Blackwood's tampering quiet (he ends up not having to, but he was prepared to nonetheless). And when the Dark Lord shows up in person but gives an order he doesn't like, Faustus straight up disobeys the second the Dark Lord isn't looking. And when he later teams up with the Pagans he tells them the Church of Night betrayed him, he was completely ignoring the fact that he tried to poison them before he abandoned them.
- Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Prudence impales him with a sword. It does not kill him because of his immortality, so she also beheads him and the Greendale witches imprison him.
- Irony: Renames the Church of Night the Church of Judas, with Judas as a kind of St. Peter figure and himself as its Pope, making him the heir to Judas, the man who brought about the death of God. When Satan sneers and tells Blackwood that he is no Judas, Blackwood is visibly insulted. Ironically, Blackwood himself does turn out to be like Judas, just not in the way he thinks; he betrays his God for valuing "a whore" over him.
- Not Me This Time: When three demon kings begin to terrorize Sabrina, he's assumed to be the most likely summoner, but turns out he wasn't behind it.
- No Sympathy: He takes steps to ensure the coven is protected when the Red Angel comes to reap Greendale's first-born sons, but makes no effort to help the mortals and flippantly tells Sabrina that they can petition their "false god" for aid.
- Politically Incorrect Villain: Extremely misogynistic, aside from holding a huge Fantastic Racism towards humans. He attempts in Season 2 to add new rules to their religion to reduce the role of women in Witch society as subservient to men and reduce the view of normal humans to mere cattle to be used for spells or food by magic users.
- Satanic Archetype: Subverted. Oddly enough for media that already has the devil as a character, Blackwood arguably appears to resemble Satan in human form much more than the show's version Lucifer himself in later parts. He even abandons worshipping him and is shown to have very little respect for the dark lord after part two, considering the Eldritch Terrors to be far more powerful.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: He runs away with the twins once Lucifer wants him to worship Sabrina, poisoning the coven in the process. Prudence swears to find him and get revenge.
- Sinister Minister: Although from a Satanist religion, rather than the usual twisted Christian version, Blackwood is an antagonist and the priest of their church.
- Smug Snake: Oh God, yeah! He thinks he's on the same level as an ancient demoness from before the dawn of time, managing to make an enemy of her and pretty much everyone else with his smug and condescending attitude, thinks he's far smarter than all of the female characters when in fact the opposite seems to be true and he even has the audacity to sneer "What?" at his master (the Devil!) when he tells Blackwood that Sabrina will reign over the coven. The Devil is not amused.
- Sore Loser: Doesn't take Sabrina's ascension well, at all. It drives him to attempt to slaughter his entire coven rather than let her have it.
- Villainous Incest: He declares that his infant daughter will be engaged to her twin brother, to "purify" the Blackwood lineage.
Lady Blackwood
Lady Blackwood
Played By: Alvina August
Father Blackwood's late wife who directed the Satanic Choir.
- Affair? Blame the Bastard: She hates Prudence, because she is the illegitimate daughter of her husband Faustus.
- Canon Foreigner: She was created for the series.
- Death by Childbirth: Dies at the end of season one, giving birth to the twins that are the first legitimate children of Father Blackwood.
- Disposable Woman: Father Blackwood quite literally treats her as one, since her only purpose was to bear him an heir.
- Vengeful Ghost: She returns as a ghost to bother Zelda when she is going to marry Father Blackwood. Turns out that Shirley lied to her, telling her that Zelda killed her during childbirth.
- Wicked Stepmother: She tries to murder Prudence who is the illegitimate daughter of Father Blackwood.
Shirley Jackson
Shirley Jackson
Played by: Rochelle Greenwood
- The Bully: Mistreats and humiliates Zelda pretty frequently in front of students and teachers of the Academy out of hatred for her family.
- Canon Foreigner: She was created for the series.
- Hate Sink: She mistreats Zelda pretty gratuitously because Edward dumped her for Diana and freely regards the accident that killed them as some kind of divine justice.
- Out-Gambitted: She had predicted that the Spellmans might try something against her after Zelda and Hilda almost made her jump off a balcony to assert Zelda's dominance over the Faculty members, so she kept herself protected through several wards. Hilda predicted that with ease and decided to take vengeance with a much simpler method: cyanide in her food.
Students
The Weird Sisters
A group of three orphaned witches taken in by the Church of Night who consider themselves sisters.
Tropes common to all of them:
- Adaptational Super Power Change: In the comics, the Weird Sisters were a trio of witches who could see the future; in the show their special power is telepathy. They do see the future via a dream once in Part 2, however.
- Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: A few times. In Part 1, when under Hilda's truth spell during the Feast of Feasts, Agatha and Dorcas honestly say they will miss Prudence when she's gone. In Part 2, when Agatha and Dorcas are poisoned by Father Blackwood, Prudence begins sobbing hysterically when they won't wake up and teleports them all to the Spellman house to beg for help reviving them. In Part 3, when Agatha (who has gone mad and murdered Dorcas) ends up being accidentally killed in the course of attacking Prudence, Prudence dies trying to reach for Agatha's hand as they both bleed out on the floor.
- The Bully: They torment Sabrina because of her half-mortal heritage, and just seem to be habitually cruel in general (e.g. their glee at helping Sabrina deal with the mortal boys in Part 1 and their eagerness to mock and taunt Nick when he is trying to deal with PTSD in Part 3).
- Blond, Brunette, Redhead: Prudence has blonde finger waves, Dorcas is a redhead, and Agatha has black hair.
- Canon Foreigner: They were all created for the series.
- Coordinated Clothes: They always wear the same outfit but in different colors, and have also coordinated with Sabrina a couple of times.
- Conveniently an Orphan: All 3 sisters are orphaned witches who were adopted and raised by Father Blackwood within the Academy, though Prudence later discovers that Blackwood is her biological father.
- Dreaming of Things to Come: They have this ability, as seen in Part 2, although it doesn't come up very often.
- Excessive Evil Eyeshadow: A staple of their wardrobe, though they're more "chaotic and occasionally malicious" than they are truly evil.
- Expy: Agatha's design was allegedly inspired by Wednesday Addams, while Tati Gabrielle based Prudence's movements and style of walking on Eartha Kitt's Catwoman.
- Family of Choice: The three genuinely consider each other sisters, bound by something stronger than blood. At the end of season 2, Ambrose and Prudence talk about how Blackwood made them blind to the family they already had. In Prudence's case, it was her sisters.
- Forgot About His Powers:
- They are rarely seen actually using their avowed special ability of telepathy in instances where it would be relevant to the plot. Instead, it's usually only observable in their speaking in unison with each other or conveniently knowing information about other characters that they otherwise would not (in-depth knowledge of Lucifer's possession of Nick, for instance). The single exception comes near the end of Part 3 when Prudence is able to telepathically summon Ambrose to her side as she's dying.
- Additionally, they never use Father Blackwood's giant statue of himself as a focus to curse him after their first try gets interrupted, even though it was working pretty well before they had to stop and would probably be easier than hunting him down manually. (It could be that it won't work if he's too far away, but they don't even mention it.)
- Girl Posse: The Weird Sisters are always together and are often treated as one entity. Prudence, however, is their Alpha Bitch leader and receives the most focus and attention.
- Incest Subtext: Zigzagged. The trio are shown participating in group sex together, and Agatha and Dorcas have some suggestive moments of being paired off in direct contrast with Prudence and Ambrose while the latter two are dating. Agatha and Dorcas also share a quite obviously romantic goodbye kiss before the latter departs forever to the afterlife. However, the three are Not Blood Siblings; though their bond of surrogate sisterhood seems to be very genuine, and as orphans of the church they definitely considered the possibility that they could have the same father until Prudence's biological father is revealed to the Father Blackwood, who confirms that Agatha and Dorcas aren't his natural children as well.
- Nice Mean And In Between: According to their actresses, Dorcas is the "nice" one, Agatha is the "mean" one, and Prudence is the "in-between" one.
- Nightmare Face: The Weird Sisters display one when frightening the football players who had been harassing Susie. It's implied to be a glamour they put on for the purpose, as these faces never appear again.
- Signature Move: Instead of holding hands, they hold pinkies instead.
- You're Just Jealous: Zelda claims they are jealous of Sabrina because she is the daughter of a high priest. Ironically, Prudence later turns out to also be the daughter of a high priest, although initially he refuses to acknowledge her as legitimate.
- Polyamory: They apparently all dated Nick at the same time, although this evidently isn't a hard rule, as Prudence has a romantic connection to Ambrose that her sisters aren't involved in.
Prudence Night / Blackwood
Played By: Tati Gabrielle
A student at the Academy of the Unseen Arts, with a personal grudge against Sabrina. She is the leader of the Weird Sisters, a trio of witches who are all orphans taken in by the Church of Night.
- Action Girl: She's skilled in sword fighting and a highly competent witch.
- Aloof Ally: Unlike her sisters, Prudence grows to see something in Sabrina that she respects, though begrudgingly. While she still dislikes Sabrina, she does like what she is becoming and has helped her on occasion.
- Alpha Bitch: She is a complete bitch who rules the Academy with the girls of her Girl Posse. Her official description and several articles says that she is based on Regina George.
- Bastard Bastard: Prudence is supposedly an orphan, but is actually the illegitimate child of Father Blackwood, and has a nasty personality.
- Big Sister Bully: Despite her being basically the Team Mom of the trio, Prudence is still quite domineering and territorial towards Dorcas and Agatha and will not hesitate to punish them in a drastically cruel and humiliating way when her sisters decide to do something without her approval.
- Big Sister Instinct: She is very protective of her sisters Agatha & Dorcas, and turns against Father Blackwood after he tries to poison them. She also teams up with Ambrose to save her biological siblings, Judas and Laetitia, from Blackwood.
- Canon Foreigner: She was created for the series.
- Defrosting Ice Queen: Only a little, but it's there; Prudence becomes a little more friendly towards Sabrina as the show goes on.
- Dual Wielding: At the end of Season 2, she shows up using two swords and showcasing some mastery in using both of them at the same time to slash things.
- Everyone Has Standards: She quits helping Blackwood altogether when she learns her father would sooner poison the Coven and turn against the Dark Lord than worship Sabrina. She's also disturbed when Blackwood announces his intention of marrying his twins to each other.
- The Fashionista: Out of all the teenage witches. Prudence has the most exceptional outfits and during her globetrotting hunt for her father she always wore an outfit to match her current location, for example plaids in Scotland or an elegant black Audrey Hepburn style dress in France.
- The Fundamentalist: Although everyone is nominally in the Church of Night, Prudence's faith is notably strong, and she doesn't seem to even consider the fact that "revelations from the Dark Lord" might be engineered for political gain until Sabrina pokes her about it. She also genuinely believes being Queen of the Feast is an honor, as being eaten, according to her faith, transubstantiates her. This is one of the reasons she butts heads with Sabrina so much—it's not just that Sabrina's the new girl, it's that she repeatedly insults and questions the Dark Lord.
- Heel–Face Turn: She pulls one at the end of Season 2 after Father Blackwood tries to poison the entire coven, including her sisters Agatha and Dorcas. In the end, she and Ambrose team up to hunt and kill Blackwood.
- Jerkass Has a Point:
- When faced with Sabrina's assertion that Harvey isn't a killer, Prudence questions what makes Sabrina's faith in Harvey any more valid than her own faith in The Dark Lord. Sabrina's faith in Harvey proves justified, but from the perspective of someone who doesn't know Harvey and who just saw him wielding a weapon meant for killing, the question is a fair one.
- When Ambrose is framed for the murder of the Anti-Pope and Sabrina's expulsion prevents her from helping him, Sabrina quickly makes an appeal to their friendship, in an effort to get Prudence to help her. While callous and blunt about it, Prudence points that they've only been recurring allies before then. With most of their interactions being initiated with Sabrina asking for favors, or Prudence offering assistance when it suited her goals. Given that they otherwise never spend time with one another, Prudence is absolutely fair in pointing out that they aren't friends. And even Sabrina's interest in preventing her sacrifice during the Feast of Feasts was more based on an aversion to the celebration itself, and less about caring for Prudence specifically. It was rather reasonable that Prudence wouldn't stick her neck out for such a limited relationship, when the stakes involved high treason and murder.
- Politically Incorrect Villain: She has a habit of calling Sabrina "half-breed" because of her half-human ancestry. She also judges Harvey solely on the fact that his ancestors were witch hunters, wanting to kill him even though she just met him a few minutes ago.
- Team Mom: When the sisters are not busy harassing Sabrina or any individual they dislike, it is quite evident that Prudence takes great care of the other 2, especially when they were younger she used to act as a mentor to them while they all were studying the dark arts as self-taught because Agatha had a tendency to get overly excited while Dorcas often stammered and had a lot of trouble expressing herself. When her sisters are targeted and attacked by the pagans, Prudence momentarily puts aside her desire for revenge on her father in an attempt to help Ambrose awaken Dorcas from her petrifaction and keep a crazed Agatha in check and, in Part 4, she also prevents Dorcas from take revenge for her death against Agatha by cradling and comforting her without showing any expression of sadness or a single tear, only to burst into choked tears as Mambo Marie takes Dorcas away.
- "Well Done, Son" Guy: She is desperate to be acknowledged by her father, something he uses to keep her loyal for as long as possible.
- The Unfavorite: Once her younger brother is born, although she's still the favorite student, though that doesn't mean much to him.
- Took a Level in Kindness: Over the course of the show Prudence grows into being a much kinder and empathic person. While she’s still rough around the edges.
Agatha Night
Played By: Adeline Rudolph
- Beta Bitch: To Prudence's Alpha Bitch, along with Dorcas.
- Bound and Gagged: By Sabrina and the other witches during a Satanic ritual.
- Brainwashed and Crazy: After being attracted by the sight of the leader of the pagan gods, she becomes Ax-Crazy to the point of needing a straitjacket and, after being freed by Blackwood and Lucifer, first tries to attack a defenseless Dorcas who was turned into a statue and then she massacres her sister with a knife.
- Bullying a Dragon: Tells Prudence and Sabrina she wishes Harvey had died with his brother Tommy when she knows both are incredibly powerful witches and both are clearly pissed at her for what she did.
- Canon Foreigner: She was created for the series..
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Fake American: her actress is Half German and Half Korean. - Face–Heel Turn: She teams up with Blackwood after she was driven mad, by the great god Pan.
- Girlish Pigtails: Her hairstyle is inspired by Wednesday Addams.
- Heel–Face Turn: In the reality created by the Perverse, Agatha is cured of her insanity and sides with Sabrina against Blackwood. Unfortunately, after the wish is reversed, she is insane again.
- She makes a true one after being cured of her insanity.
- Insane No More: After Dorcas forgive her and leaves, Agatha's sanity is finally restored.
- Laser-Guided Karma: Zigzagged. For killing Tommy in the mine collapse she caused, she's sacrificed to fuel his resurrection. However, Sabrina buries her in her aunts' Cain Patch soon after, resurrecting her too. But then Agatha becomes deathly ill and coughs up grave soil because Evil Is Not a Toy and you can't use a temporary death as your payment when Balancing Death's Books. However, in the long run Harvey is forced to kill Tommy because he comes back without his soul, and Agatha is completely cured and suffers no further consequences (nor shows any remorse) for killing Tommy to begin with.
- Karma Houdini: After being cured of her grave soil coughing illness when Harvey is forced to Mercy Kill Tommy, whom Agatha killed in the first place, she's back to perfect health and suffers no further consequence for what she did.
- Locked into Strangeness: After she gazed at the wild god Pan and became insane she received white streaks in her black hair.
- Sins of the Father: Justifies trying to kill the Kinkle boys and succeeding with Tommy on the grounds that their ancestors were witch hunters.
- Talking to the Dead: She has been practicing this skill and used it to help Sabrina with her Seance in the Christmas Special.
Dorcas Night
Played By: Abigail Cowen
A student at the Academy of the Unseen Arts and one of the Weird Sisters.
- Bad "Bad Acting": She's chosen as the lead in Father Blackwood's play, but rehearsals prove that Dorcas is an abysmal actress.
- Back from the Dead: Briefly in the fourth season.
- Beta Bitch: To Prudence's Alpha Bitch, along with Agatha.
- Canon Foreigner: She was created for the series.
- Clingy Jealous Girl: Continues hitting on and propositioning Nick long after he's made it clear he's only interested in Sabrina, including trying to force him to pair with her for the Lupercalia.
- Cruel and Unusual Death: She is literally slaughtered off-screen by her hopelessly Ax-Crazy sister Agatha in Part 3. A case of Real Life Writes the Plot, as Abigail Cowen had been cast as the main character in Fate: The Winx Saga.
- Dirty Coward: To a point. She readily sold out Agatha without much prompting, and even went along with Prudence's plan to murder her with only a few feeble protestations. Particularly notable is that Dorcas didn't even know that the plan was to resurrect her afterwards; as far as she was aware, she'd just helped kill her sister forever because she was too scared to disobey Prudence.
- Even Evil Has Standards: She claims that she didn't want to kill the miners and pushes all the blame on Agatha, although it's fairly clear from Roz's vision that she was complicit and enjoyed it as much as her sister did.
- Fake Guest Star: Dorcas' actress, Abigail Cowen, is never listed as part of the main cast, even though her character is shown in the title sequence.
- Karma Houdini: Even though Death Is Cheap was in effect, Agatha at least went through a harrowing ordeal for her part in murdering the miners; Dorcas got away with it clean.
- The Rival: To Sabrina regarding Nick's attentions.
- The Stool Pigeon: She folds like a cheap suit the second Prudence starts questioning her about the fact that she and Agatha caused the mine collapse.
- Taken for Granite: In Season 3 she is temporarily turned to stone by the gorgon Nagaina.
The New Weird Sisters
The new group of Weird Sisters consisting of Prudence, Roz and Mambo Marie. They become Guardians of the three realms due to their clairvoyant powers. After the reveal that Mambo Marie is in fact Baron Samedi and her departure, Agatha has a Heel–Face Turn and rejoins the trio.
- Guardian Entity: Because each have clairvoyant and predictive powers, they become Guardians of the realms to help predict disasters before they occur.
Nick Scratch
Nicholas Scratch
Played By: Gavin Leatherwood
A handsome young warlock who befriends Sabrina at the Academy of the Unseen Arts.
- Betty and Veronica: Where Sabrina is concerned, he is the mysterious, dark and lustful Veronica to Harvey's wholesome, artistic and vulnerable Betty.
- Blue-and-Orange Morality: Due to being a warlock born and raised, his romantic and sexual mores don't align with the half mortal-raised Sabrina.
- Canon Foreigner: He was created for the series.
- Driven to Suicide: Potentially. He claims he died when he was pulled into an undercurrent in the Sea of Sorrow, but considering how he took Sabrina's death not long before him intentionally getting caught in or simply not fighting it is not a far fetch idea.
- Fantastic Racism: Nick clearly believes that mortals are inferior to witches and is often dismissive bordering on hostile to mortals.
- Heroic Sacrifice: As a last resort, he seals Lucifer within his own body and is placed under a sleeping spell to stop the Apocalypse. Lilith takes him with her back to Hell, with Sabrina ultimately declaring that they'll go to Hell to rescue him.
- Hero-Worshipper: To Edward Spellman, whose magic and accomplishments he greatly admired. It's implied his attraction to Sabrina stemmed mostly from the fact that she's Edward Spellman's daughter.
- In Love with the Mark: The Dark Lord ordered Nick to seduce Sabrina. He pleads with Sabrina to believe that he fell in love with her for real after getting to know her.
- Louis Cypher: "Old Nick" and "Mr. Scratch" are old-fashioned nicknames for the Devil. The bad connotation of his name is lampshaded by Lilith in the first episode of Part 2.Lilith: Well, with a name like that, I can only imagine he's trouble.
- Mr. Fanservice: Given that he's played by Gavin Leatherwood and the fact that he gets quite a few shirtless scenes, he absolutely qualifies as this.
- Nice Guy: Outside of his times when he got possessed by Lucifer and once he recovers from his traumas, Nick is friendly, affably even with humans and is an Understanding Boyfriend to Sabrina, willing to risks his life many times for a good cause.
- Polyamory: He's not just Prudence's ex, he's also Dorcas and Agatha's. Concurrently, that is.
- Satellite Love Interest: At least Harvey has his comics, abusive father, and older brother. Nick doesn't seem to have any characterization beyond flirting with Sabrina, being her fellow Only Sane Man in the Church of Night, and helping her as the plot demands. Justified somewhat with the revelation that he was making an effort to get close to her specifically because the Dark Lord ordered him to do so, but his character remains somewhat poorly established outside of his feelings for Sabrina.
- Summon Magic: Conjuring is his specialty, and he has a strong admiration for Sabrina's father Edward, who was a skilled conjurer.
- Together in Death: His fate at the conclusion of the series with Sabrina. Whether he committed suicide to make it possible or his death was a miscalculated accident on his part (in his words, he went swimming in the Sea of Sorrows and was swept away by "a wicked undertow") is left ambiguous. However, his appearance in the Riverdale episode "The Witches of Riverdale" reveals that this was actually a case of Balancing Death's Books planned between Nick and the aunts that allowed Sabrina to be resurrected at the expense of Nick's life (against her will).
- Token Heroic Orc: He is the only warlock in the Greendale coven who seems to be against any of their practices. For instance, he is the only one who objects to the Feast of Feasts, considering it to be barbaric while everyone else in the coven is either excited or unconcerned. He also doesn't hold Sabrina's half mortal side against her, and tends to support her in all her doings. How much of this is due to his crush on her is hard to say.
- Took a Level in Jerkass: After his period of possession by the Dark Lord, Nick becomes very embittered and short-tempered as a result of his unprocessed trauma due to what happened, even going so far as to tell Sabrina that she wasn't worth his sacrifice despite initially having done it out of love for her.
- What the Hell, Hero??: After their break-up his jerkish and ungrateful behaviour reaches such a peak that Sabrina calls him out on it to such a degree that he is left silent as no one comes to his defense, not even his old flame Prudence.
- What Is This Thing You Call "Love"?: Nick explains that witches and warlocks (unlike humans) have difficulty feeling love. Their feelings are mostly attraction and lust but not love. He admits he wishes he could feel what Sabrina and Harvey feel for each other. In the back half of Season 1, however, he does seem to have genuinely fallen in love with Sabrina, which calls this into question.
Elspeth
Elspeth
Played by: Emily Haine
Elspeth is a a tenaciously brave and confidant witch who fights for what she believes in, After being resurrected by Sabrina Spellman, she starts to admire her and follow her example of living.
- Back from the Dead: She gets killed by two angels but Sabrina brings her back to life.
- Butt-Monkey: She gets murdered by Angels but Sabrina resurrected her, then she gets thrown into the dungeons of the Academy of Unseen Arts because she wanted to leave it, and at the end of part 2 she gets poisoned by Father Blackwood along with her fellow witches but she gets saved by Zelda and Ambrose.
- Happens again in season 3. Father Blackwood/Lucifer convince her and Melvin to join the Pagans. They end up killing her as a sacrifice, while Melvin escapes.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: She seemed loyal and supportive, but she later revealed herself to be traitorous and willing to throw others under the bus to save herself.
- Canon Foreigner: She was created for the series.
- Killed Off for Real: Is killed by the Pagans after Father Blackwood/Lucifer manipulated her to try to join them.
- Rebellious Spirit: She chose death rather than recite the gospel of the missionaries. She also defies Father Blackwood and attempts to find Sabrina to stage a revolt against the Church of Judas.
Melvin
Melvin
Played by: Tyler Cotton
- Back from the Dead: He gets killed by two angels but Sabrina brings him back to life.
- Blood from the Mouth: When he is forced to say the Lord's Prayer by the Order of the Innocent, he starts puking blood, implying holiness is deadly to witches.
- Canon Foreigner: He was created for the series.
- Clark Kent Outfit: According to Sabrina he’s jacked under that sweater vest.
- Virgin-Shaming: Gets shamed by the Weird Sisters for still being a virgin. They however seem to also have an interest in bedding a virgin. Later on, when he defies the angels, Dorcas seems visibly attracted by his newfound confidence. There is a bit of Fridge Brilliance in the shaming, considering that all witches and warlocks are all Older Than They Look and Tati Gabrielle who plays Prudence said that all students at the Academy except Sabrina are already over 50.
Hedge Witches
Gryla
Gryla
Played by: Heather Doerksen
A witch that lives in the mountains. After eating her child to survive famine, she now collects the spirits ofyoung children to keep her company.
- The Alcoholic: As soon as she is offered sweets and beverages, she demands gin.
- Canon Foreigner: She was created for the series.
- Mama Bear: She is a witch that is willing to go one on one with a demon at the time he is at his strongest because a child is being harmed by him.
- The Bus Came Back: She, and other hedge witches, are summoned by Sabrina's coven to help them defend against Lucifer and the Pagan gods.
- Public Domain Character: Gryla is a character from the ancient Icelandic folklore. Even her backstory is the same as the story then, though she is a giantess in some legends.
- Trademark Favorite Food: Gin.
- Would Hurt a Child: A very messed up version. A long time ago, she and another witch killed her kid and fed on his flesh to survive famine and winter; the deal was that other witch was also going to offer her own children, but she never did. A grieving Gryla started then to collect children to compensate her loss. Granted, those children would then be killed and become ghosts, but in her eyes, she is freeing them from any sort of possible cold or pain and seems to go on to care for them at least to a certain degree. Although she is willing to do so herself, she doesn't see that as actually hurting them, and those who do hurt them will quickly gain her wrath.
Mambo Marie LaFleur
Mambo Marie LaFleur
Played by: Skye P Marshall
A Voodoo Priestess from New Orleans who helps Prudence and Ambrose track down Blackwood. She later comes to Greendale per invitation by Prudence, to help the weakened witches defeating the tribe of pagans.- But Now I Must Go: She becomes the new avatar of Death, after Lazarus is killed. She has to go to the Underworld to escort the dead souls back.
- Gender Flip: Baron Samedi is almost always depicted as male, whereas here they appear as a woman. This seems to be subverted, however, as their last moment before departing with the Returned shows their true form, which is much closer to their usual depiction and appears much more distinctly male.
- God in Human Form: Not a God, and obviously not a human, but the spirit of the trope still applies when she reveals to Zelda that she is, in fact, Baron Samedi, an incredibly powerful loa who has taken the form of a Voodoo Priestess.
- Gratuitous French: Very prone to this.
- Insistent Terminology: Mambo Marie is a practitioner of Haitian Vodou, and not, as she puts it 'this watered-down New Orleans vodou hoodoo bullshit'.
- Lipstick Lesbian: Mambo Marie is beautiful, feminine, and the one person she ever shows any romantic or sexual interest in on-screen is Zelda.
- Middle Name Basis: She is only referred to by her middle name Marie instead of her first name Michelle.
- Women Are Wiser: Invokes this when the other hedge witches threaten to kill the ones who summoned them. She says fighting is what men do, not witches.
Pesta
Pesta
A hedge witch summoned by Sabrina and her coven to help against Lucifer and the Pagan gods. She has control over poison, rot and decay.- Kryptonite Factor: She is one for plants. She single-handedly takes down the Green Man.
- Meaningful Name: Pesta's name is derived from pestis, Latin for "plague". There was a folkloric witch of the same name in Scandinavia invented after the Black Plague hit. She also dresses in a white garb, alluding to her nature as a horseman of Pestilence.
- Master Poisoner: She excels at poison, rot and decay. She is specifically tasked by Zelda to poison the plants around the Desecrated Church as protection against the Pagans.
- Poisonous Person: When the Green Man statue attempts to feed on her blood while disguised as Ms. Wardwell, it rots from the inside out.
Sycorax
Sycorax
A hedge witch summoned by Sabrina and her coven to help against Lucifer and the Pagan gods. She states she is a river witch.- Making a Splash: She has water powers.
- Meaningful Name: "Sycorax" is the name of the (unseen) witch residing on Prospero's island in The Tempest.
Other witches and warlocks
Luke Chalfant
Luke Chalfant
Played by: Darren Mann
Connor Kemper's old fling. He shows up at Connor's funeral and catches the eye of Ambrose. They eventually start a relationship after Hilda uses her Amor extract on him.
- Ambiguously Evil: He summons Ambrose to the Academy despite knowing that he was busy protecting the mortals of Greendale and Zelda had also been summoned to help with Lady Blackwood's birth leaving Sabrina and Hilda to fend for themselves. Connor's familiar also shows up dead the morning right after he spent the night with Ambrose (to be fair, Zelda had already mentioned a familiar can't live long after is master dies, however the timing seems odd).
- Ambiguous Situation: The show drops serious hints that he might be the one behind the death of Connor Kemper, his familiar, and eventually his whole family, but it hasn't been confirmed yet.
- Anguished Declaration of Love: In the season one finale during the attack by the 13 witches of Greendale, he summons Ambrose to the Academy to protect him despite the latter's complaints that his family needs him. Luke blurts out that he summoned him because he loves him and can't bear losing him. However, Nick's explanation that warlocks can't feel love makes the matter more complex: is Luke really in love with Ambrose? Is he confused and really just in lust with him? Is he still under the effects of Hilda's potion?.
- Canon Foreigner: He was created for the series.
- Dropped a Bridge on Him: He is killed off midway through Season Two - originally without any explanation and then shown in a Flashback - by some angels called "The Church of the Innocents". There's no indication any of this is going to happen before it does and it comes entirely out of the blue.
Connor Kemper
Connor Kemper
Played by: Uncredited
Warlock adopted by the Kemper family. He owned a familiar shaped like an iguana whom Ambrose took in temporarily. It is suggested he might've been killed by a witch hunter.
- Canon Foreigner: He was created for the series.
- Posthumous Character: His very first appearance is as a corpse on Ambrose's table where he is to be prepared for his funeral.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: After he's murdered and his parents commit suicide none of them is ever mentioned again for the rest of the first season or the second.
Dezmelda
Dezmelda
A lonely witch that lives in the woods, after having fled from her previous coven.- The Bus Came Back: She returns in "Doctor Cerberus's House of Horror", as an antagonist in Zelda's segment, having sacrificed Father Blackwood's baby and absorbed her youth in Zelda's vision.
- Canon Foreigner: She was created for the series.
- Rape as Backstory: She was abused when chosen as Queen of the Feast by her High Priest and ran away from her coven afterwards.
- Vain Sorceress: In Zelda's Tarot vision, she eats Blackwood's daughter to become young and beautiful again.
Dorian Gray
Dorian Gray
Played by: Jedidiah Goodacre
"Allegiance? I have none but to myself. I am merely a spectator."
A warlock that has an exclusive nightclub for magic users, the Gray Room.- And Show It to You: The Uninvited rips out Dorian's heart, while Dorian is still alive.
- The Bartender: He bartends and owns the Gray Room, spending most of his time at the counter serving drinks.
- Canon Foreigner: He was created for the series.
- Camp Gay: He's particularly campy in manner of speaking and the way he uses accessories, and has hit on multiple men through the show.
- Eating the Eye Candy: Is pretty shameless about eyeing the handsome and naked client that visits his lounge in the season two finale.
- It's All About Me: He is very vain, especially considering his looks. When draining the angel he earlier trapped for blood to empower Sabrina's coven, he drinks most of the blood while Sabrina is momentarily distracted. He says he did this to help clean up his complexion, as he had earlier broken out with some pimples.
- Immortality: At one point he is pierced through the neck, but he quickly gets up again and heals that wound as if nothing happened.
- Killed Off for Real: Despite his immortality, he can still be killed, which the Uninvited does by ripping out his heart. To drive the point home, even his portrait is missing its heart, with blood pouring out of the wound.
- Public Domain Character: Yes, he's that Dorian Gray.
- Spooky Painting: He has a magic painting that ages in his stead. It is a particularly haunting one.
- Wild Card: He basically does whatever he pleases, no matter whom it benefits. Sometimes he helps Father Blackwood and sometimes he helps Sabrina or Nick, depending on what seems interesting at the time.
Judas and Judith
Judas and Judith
Father Blackwood and Lady Blackwood's twin children.- Creepy Twins: They are mostly silent and nearly always appear together. They also are loyal to Blackwood and follow his every order. A clue to being extra creepy is they prop Blackwood's decomposing body up and pray to it.
- Rapid Aging: Blackwood subjects them to a spell which ages them quickly from babies to young teens.
