Winifred Sanderson

### Personality

Vain, insane, hyperactive, dramatic, clever (sometimes), childish, evil, dumb, boy-crazy, hopelessly romantic, lovesick, shy, silly (at times), loyal, calm, flirty, affectionate, ditzy, alluring, powerful, excitable, perky, wild, crazy, air-headed, stupid, idiotic, foolish, obedient, funny, goofy, sadistic, inept, sleazy, comical, humorous, perverted, dim-witted, incompetent, dangerous, naïve, murderous, obsequious

### Goal

To please her younger and youngest sister and remain young forever (failed)

### Relatives

Unnamed mother
Mary Sanderson (younger sister)
Sarah Sanderson (youngest sister)

### Allies

Mary Sanderson, Sarah Sanderson, Billy Butcherson (formerly)

### Enemies

Max Dennison, Dani Dennison, Allison, Thackery Binx, Emily Binx, Billy Butcherson

### Likes

Having fun, being youthful, men, boys, seducing men and boys, worshipping Satan, candy, spiders, witchcraft, torture, singing

### Dislikes

Being rejected by men, displeasing Winifred, Winifred's abuse, Mary's clumsiness, bright light, not being able to find a love-life, being ugly, not having fun

### Powers and abilities

Magic/Witchcraft
Spell-casting
Potion-brewing
Broomstick flight
Electrokinesis
Necromancy

### Paraphernalia

Manual of Witchcraft and Alchemy
broomstick
mop

### Fate

Implodes into a purple light and dies with her sisters when the sun rises in the cemetery

### Quote

"Come - We fly!""I put a spell on you! And now you're mine!""Oh, look. Another glorious morning. Makes me SICK!""Hello Salem! My name's Winifred, what's yours!""Why, why, why was I cursed with such idiot sisters?""Billy! I killed you once, I shall kill you again, you maggoty malfeasence!"

**Winifred Sanderson** is a young witch that lives with her sisters in their cottage in Salem, Massachusetts, USA

## Background

Winifred was born in 1637 in Salem, Massachusetts where she lived with her two younger sisters, Mary and Sarah as orphans after their father, an apothecary, died. At some point in her youth, Winifred shared a kiss with Billy Butcherson in a graveyard and grew to believe they were soulmates, despite the fact that he didn't reciprocate this feeling. It results in her obsession of him.

In 1653, on her sixteenth birthday, Reverend Traske arranged for Winifred to marry John Pritchett. She adamantly refused and took the Lord's name in vain twice. When she wouldn't relent in her decision, Traske deemed that she had defied the authority of the church and had her banished from Salem. Rather than let her sisters, Mary and Sarah, be taken away from her, Winifred escaped with them to the nearby forbidden wood. There, they made the acquaintance of a forest enchantress, whom they referred to as Mother, and she sensed that Winifred, too, was a witch. The enchantress gifted Winifred a spellbook for her sixteenth birthday, but explicitly warned the Sanderson sisters against casting a spell known as the Magicae Maxima. Mother Witch also revealed to them that by killing children witches could stay young and "ridiculously" beautiful. Later that night, Winifred and her sisters successful sought revenge against Reverend Traske by casting a spell to set fire to his home.

Afterwards, Winifred and her sisters moved into a cottage on the outskirts of Salem in the late 1600's. When Winifred learned that Billy Butcherson took her sister Sarah as his lover, she poisoned him on May 1, 1693, and sewed his mouth shut with a dull needle so that he could not reveal her secrets even in death.

### Personality

Winifred is highly intelligent, dramatic, sadistic, cruel, smart, temperamental, clever, logical, competent, wise, witty, and evil, which makes her all the more deadly if one isn't careful. Extremely vain, she is deeply offended whenever she is called ugly and swiftly punishes anyone who dares do so. According to Thackery Binx, when she caught her lover, Billy Butcherson, cheating on her with her beautiful sister Sarah, she flew into a jealous rage and poisoned him, sewing his lips shut with a dull needle for good measure, and for being unfaithful to her, and due to this, Winifred is described to be always the most jealous type among her sisters.

As the eldest of her sisters, Winifred is their leader, though she probably would be anyway due to her cunning and competence, traits which her sisters lack. She is also shown to be much more smarter, clever, and observant than her younger sisters. Mary is her right-hand witch and compliments Winifred constantly, but Sarah's air-headed idiocy in particular frequently exasperates her to no good end. However, Winifred tolerates them either because her idolized mother asked her to, or because they each have invaluable, unique powers necessary for her plans. Her own unique power is electrokinesis, which can easily and painfully subdue pesky older siblings who get in her way.

But if there is one thing she truly loves in the world, it is her beloved spellbook. Originally owned by the Devil before being entrusted upon generations of witches with herself as its latest heir and able to magically change its contents to fit the situation, it is a priceless treasure that she absolutely adores. When she speaks to her book, she mostly cares for, and mostly kind to it, just like the book is her own child.

Her spellbook helps her find the perfect spells and potions to cause misfortune to others, be it painfully transforming her victims into other creatures or brewing a potion to suck away their life-force. Winifred enjoys harming others with wicked glee and even when facing execution, her sarcastic, cruel sense of humor remains unfazed.

After their revival in *Hocus Pocus 2*, Winifred became determined to perform the *Magicae Maxima* despite having promised the Witch Mother that she and her sisters would never use it, as she wanted to take revenge on the Traske bloodline for the wrongs done to the Sisters by their ancestor, Reverend Traske. But when they succeeded in performing the *Magicae Maxima*, because Winifred had been so stubborn and persistent, she'd failed to read the spell's warning that to cast it would cost her what she cherished most, which turned out to be her sisters, and she was horrified as she could only watch helplessly as her sisters turned to dust before her eyes. Realizing what she'd done, overcome with guilt and heartbreak, she begged Becca, Izzy, and Cassie, as well as the Book for help to get her sisters back, even stating her newfound powers meant nothing if she did not have her sisters, proving that in spite of how she treated them Winifred loved her sisters more than anything in the world that she would forsake such power to have them back. Even though the Reuniting Spell did not bring them back but rather sent Winifred to them, she was satisfied and bore no grudge, even commending the girls and stated they were lucky to have each other before she vanished to be with her sisters again, implying Winifred had found peace.

### Physical appearance

Winifred's most striking feature is her fiery red hair, which she wears in a distinctive, curled bouffant style that resembles the shape of a heart. She wears shades of green that contrast nicely with her hair in the form of a richly-embroidered velvet robe over a green and deep purple dress. Eyebrow-less, buck-toothed, and with claw-like fingernails, Winifred cuts a memorable figure enhanced by her strongly rouged cheeks and uniquely lipsticked mouth. She had striped green stockings and shoes with curved points. When she went outside, she wore a dark green hooded cloak.

### Powers and abilities

As the oldest sister, Winifred is the most powerful and intelligent of the three witches, with an extraordinary proficiency in dark magic. The many effects she can achieve through dark magic include:

* **Dark Magic:** Winifred Sanderson is a practitioner of dark magic she does this by casting spells from her spellbook.
* **Electrokinesis:** Her signature magical ability, Winifred could project her power from her very fingertips in a form that resembles green lightning. Not only can the lightning be used to electrocute her target, but it can also be used as a form of kinesis. For example, during Max's and Winifred's first confrontation, after she knocked him down through her electrokinesis.
* **Electro-Telekinesis:** Winifred uses this to telekinetically move and toss Max about and levitate him in the air.
* **Storm Manipulation:** After performing the Power spell, Winifred casts a powerful thunderstorm over all of Salem.
* **Potion Brewing:** The ability to create beverages that produce specific magical effects. Winifred possessed immense skill with potions (especially those that originated from her spell-book), most notably the Life Potion, which she brewed with her sisters' help.
* **Spell Casting:** The ability to cast spells to produce specific magical effects. Winifred also possessed immense skill with spells (especially those that originated from her spell-book), which she often performed with her sisters' help. Other additional abilities she derived from this power are:
* **Cursing:** The ability to induce curses. To punish Thackery Binx for insulting them, and to force him to live forever with his guilt over failing to save his sister from them, the three sisters cursed him to become an immortal black cat. Also, before they were hanged, Winifred cast a final curse through her spell-book, enabling them to return from the grave three centuries later, with Max (a virgin) lighting the Black Flame Candle on a Halloween full moon. Her curse also ensured that the three sisters survived Allison's plan to burn them alive in a kiln.
* **Necromancy:** Through a spell that she cast independently, Winifred summoned Billy Butcherson from his grave as a zombie to do her bidding. However, while he initially seemed to be on her side, he was revealed to hold her in utter contempt, and later sided with her opponents against her and her sisters.
* **Siren Singing:** Winifred and her sisters could bewitch others through song - by means of her song ("*I Put a Spell on You*"), she and her sisters hypnotized a group of adults into believing that Max's warnings about her and her sisters were just *"a good joke"*, and then went on to cast a spell of perpetual dance on them. Likewise, another of their songs ("*One Way Or Another*") enchanted several citizens to help them find Jefry Traske, the Mayor of Salem. Sarah also implied that when working in tandem, they could all indeed bewitch teenagers, however they left before they could attempt to do so.
* **Continual Action Inducement:** The ability to cause others to keep doing one action or a series of actions until they literally die. After Winifred hypnotized the adults through her singing voice, she and her sisters went on to sing a catchy song interwoven with a spell that made the adults *"dance until they died"* (though it was fortunately broken before said deaths could occur).
* **Fire Manipulation:** In a flashback we see in Hocus Pocus 2, we see the young Sanderson Sisters casting a spell on a house which causes it to smoke and catch on fire.
* **Broom Flight:** The ability to fly using brooms. Winifred is skilled in broom flight, and could also fly using a standard sweeping broom as an alternative to her normal broomstick.
* **Supernatural Strength:** Winifred displayed strength beyond that of a normal human when she effortlessly caught and wrenched a baseball bat ouf of Max's hands and lifted him off his feet with little effort while trying to drain his life force.
* **Conjuration:** Winifred could magically create solid objects such as ropes or a row of stitches sewn on to Billy's mouth from nothing.
* **Teleportation (limited):** The sequel film revealed that she and her sisters can teleport from one place to another, as discovered when Beca and Izzy try to run away from her when they are resuscitated while Winnie and her sisters were busy singing, she transports after Sarah and Mary. in front of them, she after her sisters appeared first to corner them, although this ability seems to be limited to nearby places and knowing the location of her target, since when they were looking for Mayor Trask they never appeared in front of him because they did not know his location, and it also seems that it can't be used while they are held, as seen when they couldn't get out of the salt circle, also it would explain why they never used this ability on Max, Dany, Allison and Takerin when they stole Book, since they fled to places unknown to them.
* **Bibliomancy (formerly):** Winifred was able to use her spell book to divine the specific magic that would be most useful or most helpful to her and her sisters in whatever situation they were in - her book would always automatically flip to the particular entry that they needed most (the recipe for the Life Potion, the curse to transform someone into an immortal animal, etc.).