Dan Andrew

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So I binged watched all of The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina and after a tiny bit of sleep I shot upright in bed like I slam dunked back into my body because I have a theory y’all.

What if Sabrina Spellman isn’t ‘Sabrina’ Spellman?

Here me out.

Edward, Sabrina’s father, is shown to be the most clever and powerful warlock in the history of the coven. He is a smart man adept at many arts and well versed in witch law. He was so educated in it that he taught a mortal lawyer how to beat the devil.

Episode two exclusively focuses on this mortal lawyer while exposing four other key facts; that the church of witches and the devil are subject to a set of laws, there are loopholes in those laws, Edward promised a child to the devil, and Edward kept secrets.

Then take into consideration how focused the plot of part one is on Sabrina’s signature. She has to sign her name in the Book of the Beast of her own free will. Edward knew this and even expressed to Sabrina’s aunties how it was his wish that Sabrina sign her name.

Now in later episodes we learn that Edward was progressive beyond his marriage to a mortal. In episode seven we learn he stopped the tradition of Feast of Feasts. He fought against the expectations of the church and the devil for more humane practices.

So take that odd contradiction: Edward wanted to change the church and disagreed with the devil and yet wanted Sabrina to submit to the church and the devil. Seems weird right?

It’s because he didn’t want Sabrina to be part of the church and belong to the devil. However his marriage to Diane was only allowed if he promised Sabrina to the devil which we also learn in episode 2.

It’s also worth noting here that the devil is not omnipresent and omniscient. This is clear by his need of others to accomplish his will and how in the trial of episode 2 it comes to light that Sabrina Spellman was baptized and promised to God first. If the devil was all seeing and all knowing he would have have already known about the baptism and he wouldn’t have left Sabrina’s dark baptism in the hands of less knowledgeable creatures like Lilith.

So, knowing that Edward was brilliant and well versed in witch law, that he agreed to a deal with the devil that he didn’t want to fulfill, and that the devil is not privy to all knowledge: what if Sabrina Spellman is a twin and not actually the the one legally named Sabrina?

If Edward and Diane had twins, they could hide one after naming her Sabrina then call the baby they present to the coven by that same name without it actually being her name. This would then create a loophole. Sabrina Spellman signed that name into the Book of the Beast and since neither her nor the devil know it’s not really her name she is still granted the contract and when she finds out the truth of who she is she’ll still have the power to defeat the devil and the legal out from her expected servitude.

Other things that support this?

Sabrina sees two babies in the suitcase in the woods in her vision (I think episode 1 but I might be jumbled on that). At first glance it’s a symbol of her duality as witch and mortal since one of the babies has goat features but what if it’s also her seeing that she is part of a set of twins one of which is promised to the devil and that’s why she has goat features?

Also: the Blackwood twins. The show gives us an instance where the birth of twins has been concealed by Zelda simply by spiriting away one of the children after birth. This is done to save the girl from her perceived fate. When Zelda shows Hilda the child later she adds that they’ll raise the child and they’ve “done it before.” This is of course in reference to raising Sabrina but it could also be foreshadowing that the concealment of twins was also done before with Sabrina.

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