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Sabrina
Sabrina Sabrina is one of the oldest named female figures in British legend — a river goddess murdered and drowned who became the animating spirit of Britain's mightiest river. Milton's Sabrina possesses the particular power of innocence preserved: the guardian who intercedes for the vulnerable against supernatural corruption. The name carries the liminal quality of water itself, the boundary between worlds, and suits characters who move between registers of reality that others experience separately.
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Sabrina
Comus — John Milton
The river goddess invoked to free the Lady from Comus's enchantment, representing the protective power of chastity and natural virtue in Milton's masque.
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Sabrina the Teenage Witch — George Gladir / Dan DeCarlo
The half-witch teenager who must navigate the competing demands of her mortal and magical worlds, a contemporary continuation of the name's supernatural legacy.
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