Sabrina Spellman

Sabrina was created by her two aunts, Hilda and Zelda Spellman, from a magic potion that turned out wrong. However, it was later retconned by the 1996 Sabrina sitcom that Sabrina is a "half-witch" (her mother is an ordinary human, or "mortal" as witches refer to them, while her father is a warlock). She lives with Hilda and Zelda (both witches themselves) in the fictional town of Greendale, which is located somewhere near Riverdale, the home of Archie Andrews, while her father is away. The 1996 live action series also gave Sabrina and her aunts the last name “Spellman”. Also living with the three women as the family pet is Salem Saberhagen. In the original comic stories Salem was a typical witch's cat who did not talk. The 1996 sitcom introduced the idea that Salem was a witch who has been turned into a cat as punishment for world domination attempts.
Most of Sabrina's adventures consist of Sabrina either trying to use her powers in secret to help others – witches generally are not allowed to tell mortals about their abilities or existence – or dealing with the day-to-day trials of being a teenager. A recurring theme in Sabrina's stories is her learning more about the proper use of her powers, either through her aunts or from trips to a magical dimension that is the home of various magical/mythological creatures, including other witches. Various names are given to this dimension; the mid-late 2000s comics refer to it as the "Magic Realm," while the live-action sitcom referred to it as the "Other Realm." These adventures even contained moments where Sabrina had to act as a superhero on occasion.
Sabrina's primary romantic love interest is her mortal boyfriend named Harvey Kinkle who, unlike nearly all the other mortals in Sabrina's world, is aware his girlfriend is a witch.

## Famity History

Sabrina Spellman is a fourteenth or fifteenth generation of the Spellman family, a family of warlocks and witches adept in the pagan art of witchcraft. The Spellmans have produced progeny with exceptional aptitude and proclivity to the mystical arts for over a thousand years. The majority of her race are eccentrics and elitists, characteristics of their centuries long existence holding themselves above humanity who they refer to as "mortals" despite the fact that they are not true immortals, such as the gods of earth. In fact, there are countless more reputable Wiccan individuals who do not carry on this sort of discrimination and have actually intermingled and married normal humans.
Not much is known about Sabrina's early years. According to some accounts, Sabrina was born in Riverdale, California and attended Riverdale High School where she became friends with Archie Andrews and Betty Cooper, but this Sabrina was born in the Forties and might not be the modern Sabrina. It is known that Sabrina had been born through the relationship of Edward Spellman with an archaeologist named Diana Martin. However, in the years since Samantha Spellcraft, a distant relative of the Spellmans, had married a mortal man, the Witch's Council forbid further intermingling with regular human beings. They actually set several spells to discourage it. Forbidden to marry Diana, Edward remained bound to his mystical duties, and Sabrina was raised by her mother and her grandmother without any knowledge of her mystical legacy.
Eventually, Edward realized that Sabrina would realize her true mystical powers upon adolescence, and after Sabrina's grandmother died, he sent her to live with his two sisters, Hilda and Zelda, in Westbridge, a suburb of Boston, Massachusetts. Sabrina's proclivity for magic had been mystically hindered in her grandmother's home, but her full power began manifesting as she reached puberty. Her aunts taught her in the use and discipline of her powers as well as instilled in her mortal responsibility and compassion. Sabrina remained somewhat ambivalent to her heritage; eager to be normal, she often resorted to her magical prowess to help others or indulge herself.