Wardwell peeks out from behind a tree, watching as the ceremony begins. The coven is already there, slaughtering animals and muttering spells. As she crosses through the gateway of branches, engulfed by a supernatural blue flame, her dress turns from white to black. As the blood moon begins, Sabrina races off to the woods for the Dark Baptism.
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It’s full of “Monster Mash” music, Eddie Munster costumes, and a surprise cake for the birthday girl.
Sabrina resolves to have one last night with her mortal friends, so she puts on her white baptism dress and goes with Harvey to Roz’s Halloween party. It was all a spell to capture the bullies’ manhoods as punishment. As the boys run away in terror, Sabrina walks out to find a cage filled with four birds. With a snap of Prudence’s fingers, the light cuts out and if it weren’t for the flash of Sabrina’s camera, nobody would see the trio adopting a more demonic form. It’s time for a game of Devil in the Dark. When the reality sets in, the guys make their empty threats and the Weird Sisters throw Sabrina off guard with one last surprise. The guys are actually just kissing each other, while Sabrina and the Weird Sisters are standing off to the side laughing and taking pictures. Despite the enchanting music that seems to come from nowhere, they all start making out in the dim lamplight - although it’s really an illusion. The girls lure all four of them into the mines, teasing them with talk of the Devil’s Doorway to Hell. They have another kid, who they also seem to be bullying, carting them around and he also gets caught up in the witches’ work. When night falls, Sabrina and the Weird Sisters arrive to torment the jocks, who are out partying with beer in an empty parking lot. Unlike the Salem familiar to Hart fans (pun intended), this Salem doesn’t talk (he mentally communicates with Sabrina), but he can revert to his more menacing goblin form and tear things - like said scarecrow - to shreds. Wardwell gets wind of this and, fearing Sabrina might learn something that persuades her away from the path of night, uses some voodoo witchery to send a scarecrow after her in the hay maze barring the Malum Malice. And with her concerns over the Dark Baptism mounting and her aunts’ refusal to postpone it, Ambrose suggests she goes to find a Malum Malice, an apple that grants knowledge to female witches. Zelda warns about picking a wild familiar to serve a witch, but Sabrina says it’s more about a mutual partnership than servitude. Sabrina finds her familiar when a goblin sneaks into her room and takes the form of a black cat (Salem!). Parents bring the dead body of their recently killed son (who may very well be a witch) to the mortuary, which Ambrose suggests could be the work of witch hunters.
Sabrina tries to tell Harvey she’s a witch to see how he’ll react, but magically takes it back when it’s not to his liking.
The downside, obviously, is that she signs her name over to the Devil and completely renounces her mortal life, two things which don’t sit well for Sabrina. Doing so will grant her immortality, ensure her powers don’t fade away and gain her entrance to the Academy of Unseen Arts (like Hogwarts if Harry Potter studied necromancy and demonic conjuring instead of charms). the Dark Lord’s book, a.k.a Satan’s book). As a young sorceress approaching her 16th birthday, she must make preparations for her Dark Baptism, a ritualistic rite of passage in which a young witch enters the woods with her coven and signs her name in the Book of the Beast (a.k.a. Sabrina’s generally cheery teen life is contrasted by the darkness of her witch life. She enjoys her normal life of analyzing horror movies with boyfriend Harvey (Ross Lynch) at the local Greendale cinema and fighting the patriarchy with besties Roz (Jaz Sinclair) and Susie (Lachlan Watson). As a half-witch, half-mortal, this new Sabrina (played by Mad Men‘s Kiernan Shipka) must constantly reconcile with dueling forces.