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“Not as intricate as an Acheron configuration, but a jam jar will do just as well,” says Zelda after trapping Batibat.
Are you telling me that Edward Spellman is so fucking extra that he trapped a demon in a rubix cube kaleidoscope that makes people go mad when a jam jar would’ve worked just as well...? This is proof that Zelda Spellman should have been the leader of the Church long ago; one should never over-complicate things when a simple solution is readily available.
I still don’t understand how Hilda can have an army of familiars while most witches only have one. Exactly how many goblins decided to bond with her...?
I never really thought about this before, but Hilda has a sleeping potion at-the-ready, and Edward, too, had trouble sleeping because he was plagued by a sleep demon. I don’t really have anything intellectual to say about that, but during my rewatch of Dreams in a Witch House, it stuck out to me that both of them have trouble sleeping.
“You didn’t even want to join the Church of Night... you didn’t even love [the Dark Lord]!” Zelda says to Hilda during her Batibat nightmare, when Lucifer seems to prefer Hilda’s...everything.
I feel like we don’t talk about this enough. Hilda grew up in the same home as Edward (who “received the call young,” at just six years old), Zelda (who is either newly-aggressively-pious or has always been that way), and, potentially, an unnamed brother or sister (who was murdered by witch hunters). So, assuming Edward and Zelda were always extremely pious—although Edward was a bit of a rebel—Hilda was possibly the first Spellman who didn’t want to join the Church of Night.
It feels significant that Sabrina is NOT the first one in their family to be unwilling to sign the Book of the Beast. Hilda had all of the same misgivings three hundred years ago. Zelda brutally murders Hilda and throws her in the Cain Pit for even mentioning to Sabrina that she isn’t happy in the Church of Night. I shudder to think what Grandpa & Grandma Spellman did to her in the 1700s (?) when it became clear that she didn’t want to join the Church...
I’m still bothered by the fact that Zelda, who has never even looked at a vulnerable kid without wanting to protect or adopt it, has no qualms about cooking a child in her Batibat nightmare.
But putting that aside, the Dark Lord condones annual ritual cannibalism, so why does his nightmare-self go on a rant about the diminishing numbers of witches?! Why is it ok to kill a woman every single fucking year for four hundred years (excepting the time that Edward was High Priest), but it’s not ok to cook a singular child for his enjoyment...?! “Depleted numbers” should be blamed on the Feast of Feasts killing off women of child-bearing age for centuries, not on Zelda killing a single boy...
I know Batibat was just torturing her... but still. What were the writers even doing? You can make a dream a nightmare without throwing in contradictions to things established in canon.
Ok why does Hilda still have her familiars, but Zelda’s is [redacted], and she hasn’t gotten a new one...? When Batibat lulls everyone to sleep, it’s clear that Salem is a threat to her plans. So, why aren’t Hilda’s spiders helping her? And why did Zelda never seek out another familiar after hers [redacted]? I can understand loyalty to Vinegar Tom, but familiars seem to be pretty useful when it comes to protection (except that like...they’re almost never there when you need them?! Because the writers seem to forget about them?!)
I love how much knowledge Sabrina lacks about demons. She runs, screaming, into her aunties’ room, and when Zelda asks her, calmly, what kind of demon is loose, she just says: “a demon-demon! A scary demon!!”
...bitch!? Are you a witch or not?!? You study and practice the spells in the demonomicon, but you don’t know that there are different types of demons...?!
There’s something so...sweet about the idea that Zelda and Hilda spend evenings in bed reading together. Like, I know Zelda judges Hilda for reading bodice-rippers right next to her while she reads the Bible...but I think it’s wild that after 300+ years of life, they still share these (not-so) quiet moments together.
