Samantha Stephens

Samantha Stephens is a witch. She was born to Endora and Maurice around four hundred years ago. She married a mortal man, Darrin Stephens, and had two children with him, Tabitha and Adam. She gave up her magical life to live with her husband per the promise she made to herself to give it up for his sake. Yet, try as she might, she invariably resorts to witchcraft to solve the problems her family encounters, but only after she tries every possible mortal way to solve them. ("I, Darrin, Take This Witch, Samantha") ("Just One Happy Family") ("And Then There Were Three") ("...And Something Makes Four")

## Famity History

During the Nineteenth Century, Samantha traveled a bit between homes owned by her family and extended relatives. For a time, she lived with distant relatives Hilda and Zelda Spellman near Borley, England. She tempered the personality of their young brother, Thomas, to have compassion for mortals. As a result, Thomas as an adult would marry a mortal woman and have a daughter, Sabrina, who also showed proclivity to the mystical arts. During this time, Samantha would also become close friends with a mortal practitioner of the Wiccan religion named Angelique Bouchard, a friendship that has helped to assuage Angelique's old hostilities and enmity with her then estranged husband, Barnabas Collins. Her father, Maurice, is the brother of Aunt Irma and the brother of Sabrina's grandfather (who we never meet), making him actually Maurice Spellman which in turn, makes Sam the first cousins of Hilda, Zelda, Edward, Vesta, and Sophia.

The reason that there's no mention of a "Queen of the Witches" in Sabrina like there is in Bewitched is because the monarchy was overthrown sometime in the gap between the end of Bewitched and the beginning of Sabrina, making the Witches Council the head bitches in charge. The reason that Tabitha can do magic at her age despite being half-mortal is because her parents were still together. As we know, Sabrina's parents divorced and she didn't discover her magic until her 16th birthday so their separation could have something to do with it. It could also be that Tabitha was just really powerful as was stated numerous times in Bewitched. Or, half-witches can do magic when their babies/toddlers but lose control over sometime after that until their 16th birthdays.

## Family Secret

Over the years, Tabitha grew up into a beautiful woman and got a job in the television industry in San Francisco, California. Adam followed Darren into the advertising business and eventually lived near Tabitha on the West Coast. His powers seemed to decline as well, but they were restored after realizing he was under the spell of a jilted young witch he had dated. Samantha's cousin, Minerva, whom Tabitha and Adam regarded as an aunt, checked up on them frequently on behalf of Samantha. Amanda, however, was kept restricted to the East Coast as years of being influenced by Serena had made her just as impractical and unpredictable. Samantha's long-lost sister, Jessica, eventually returned as well after being turned into a dress for several years by Serena. To fulfill her time without her children around, Samantha dabbled for a time as a caterer, mostly to McMann and Tate, Darren's firm, after years of providing dinners to guests and prospective clients.