Obviously Sabrina is going to go full “I VOLUNTEER!” at the last minute, but sure, we can let Zelda delude herself into thinking she’s putting her name in the hat. (Queenship? Queenery?) Zelda will be putting herself forward, as Hilda, an excommunicate, is disqualified. Sabrina is disgusted by this casual Shirley Jackson–ing of the witch population, but like every horrifying thing in the Church of Night, Aunt Zelda assures Sabrina it is an honor just to be nominated for the Queendom. Look, I know that Hunger Games is a riff on the myth of Theseus and the Minotaur and so it’s not technically possible to be a “ Hunger Games rip-off” - myths, like the moon, belong to everyone - but if you’re going to go there and you don’t want it to sound like you just copy-pasted from Suzanne Collins, maybe don’t call the potential sacrifices “tributes.” Fun for the whole family! So the Church of Night honors this queen’s legacy with this lottery that is, note-for-note, very much the same thing as the Hunger Games. The youngest, strongest witch slit her own throat so that her coven could eat her body through the spring.
And this ends the charming portion of the proceedings because the rest of this episode gets real gruesome, starting with the bloody entrails nailed to the Spellman front door.Ī bit of witch lore: Fourteen women from the Church of Night, way back when, were chased out of Greendale. Like Jews on Christmas, witches spend mortal Thanksgiving going to the movies and eating Chinese food.
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