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Witch Laws:  

There’s an Infernal Parole Board.

It is a hex that keeps Ambrose imprisoned in the house. Though astral projection, though disallowed, is a loophole to the hex as shown in the previous episode.

Displays of Power:

Lilith is spying on the Spellmans through the scrying mirror she created and sees Batibat.

Batibat breaks the scrying connection by breaking the mirror.

Lilith is able to travel through dreams from quite a long distance away, though the accuracy of where she lands is off, as she can’t find Sabrina at first, and travels through Ambrose and Hilda’s dreams to get there. However, the fact she can walk through one dream to another when on the other side of town shows considerable power.

Lilith is also shown to levitate

Sabrina, after learning how to do it from Lilith (gin clear mind, self-induced sleep and clear intent), also travels through the dreams, though these are the dreams of those in her house, so she’s able to be more accurate with her direction.

Sabrina glamours Salem to look like herself

Spells: .  

Protocols for a demon in house are you seal the house to contain the entity to prevent it from escaping into the world. The Latin spell for this is “Ex spiritibus neam sie te aeris. Qui Omnipotentiam Tuam parcendo clavem ad. Ostium ligate Diabolum hunc! Hoc captionem, et daemonium ab grandus cincinno” Roughly translated: The air will thus bar the spirits. The key to your almighty power. Entrance bind this trap and lock this grand demon.

Zelda appears to traps the demon the first time with the spell “turpis et infernis in terris pariunt. Adiuro vos tamen hoc graecas munus”  Roughly translated, the beginning means, hell on earth and ugly, and the last sentence makes no fucking sense as far as I can tell. It’s possible it’s a type of bastardised Latin that became popular in alchemy etc in the 1600s. Such Latin can be near impossible to translate.

Sabrina traps Batibat using the spider familiars to create a dreamcatcher, chanting; "Turpis et infernis in terris pariunt. Et furantur verba haec locutus sum vobis Laetitia. Punctum baculus parit malediction. Adiuro vos tamen hoc graecas munus." Hell on earth and ugly and these words I spoke to you. and then something about sticking and charging a role.

Magical Objects:

Sabrina has let a demon out of Edward’s Acheron.

The demonic metranomes from Batibat seem to keep them asleep; they can’t be touched while they’re asleep, as Sabrina tries and gets a shock from it.

Lilith wakes up Sabrina by sticking a hair pin, sharply, into a fetish doll she had made of her. It makes sabrina’s actual finger bleed and pulls her out of the enchanted sleep.

Grimoire:

Hilda often uses a little foxglove to help her sleep.

Dream Analysis:

Sabrina’s dream is a direct mix of her lives. She’s set entirely in her mortal high school, but the students are witches. She is marrying Harvey, but is asked to run away with Nick. We also see Harvey’s witch hunter nature shown even before Sabrina knows he’s a witch hunter; foreshadowing. We also see Zelda portrayed as cold and unemotional, and Hilda as soft and romantic, which is perhaps the subconscious way Sabrina perceives her aunts. When she is attacked by the Hunters, she sees no one helping her, showing she feels alone in her duality.

Ambrose’s dream is all about being alone, having no connections, feeling no one will mourn his death. Feeling trapped, and being stuck in a vicious circle that never ends. He quite literally dissects himself, misquoting Hamlet as he does so and when he eats his own heart, he claims it tastes bitter, reflecting how he feels about his situation, and those who are free and untrapped around him.  Blackwood’s grant of freedom to him in the dream is foreshadowing of the false promises Blackwood makes to him in the future. Ambrose dream is the first time we bump into Lilith.

Hilda’s dream is a mixture of sexual exploration and feeling confined and trapped and belittled by her sister, unable to escape her or her criticism. We also have Lilith’s second appearance in the dreams interrupting the flirting between Hilda and Hawthorne. Hilda declares no one has ever cooked for her before, and we have it confirmed that she is a virgin. Zelda in the dream is cruel and mocking and unsupportive, which shows us how Hilda feels about her sister much of the time. She declares ‘you never want me to happy do you’ and ‘I’m sick to death of being the put upon one’. Hilda slaps Zelda and binds her mouth, calling her an insufferable bitch. Yet, even when she’s bound her and she’s on her date, Hilda only talks about Zelda, showing that her sister will always be a part of her life no matter what, and that’s what she can’t escape, for good or for bad. Which concludes with Hawthorne having sewn them together, permanently. Batibat calls Zelda her ‘dark half’

Zelda’s dream starts with her talking to children about the origin story. This shows Zelda’s maternal inclinations, her focus on children, and as she’s teaching them about Eve (a part she played) and their Satanic bible, it also shows what else Zelda focuses on; the Church of Night. Having the Dark Lord visit reflects her desire for the family to rise in the Church. She sees Hilda as bright and bouncy, but also perfect; she sees Hilda getting all the praise and approval of the Dark Lord, showing not only her own self-doubts but also that she sees Hildain a more positive light than she ever admits out loud. Faustus reperesents thr Dark Lord, because he’s the closest thing to Satan, and Zelda’s attraction to him also reflects her ‘in awe’ feelings towards the Dark Lord, so it’s all compounded into one. While Hilda’s nightmare was being bound to Zelda forever, Zelda’s nightmare was losing Hilda forever, when she kills her and she doesn’t resurrect (also foreshadowing as that happens in part 3) and we actually do not see her kill Hilda again out of malice and irritation ever again. We also parallel the Cain and Abel story where the Dark Lord asks where is Hilda and Zelda replies “Am I my sister’s keeper?”

Infernal Phrases

I treated her like hell rot

For the love of Lucifer

For Satan’s Sake

Mythology:

Batibat is a sleep demon who fills people’s dreams with sublime nightmares. She lulls them to sleep, separates them so their dreams don’t cross over (implying this is possible) and then plagues them with horrific nightmares. Her purpose for the Spellmans was for someone to set her free, but in general she messes with people for the fun of it apparently.

The witch hunters in Sabrina’s dream quote the bible ‘thou shalt not suffer a witch to live’.

Dialogue:

“Never open a magic box if you don’t know what’s inside it” - Zelda  

“Your attempts to conciliate your duality will only bring you pain and suffering” Dream Zelda

"Sometimes the oldest simplest magic works best”- Sabrina