Winnie Sanderson

Winifred "Winnie" Sanderson is the main antagonist in Disney's 1993 film Hocus Pocus and its 2022 sequel. She is the eldest and most intelligent witch who lived during the time of the Salem Witch Trials, along with her two sisters: Mary and Sarah.

For her witchy activities, she was sentenced to death by the Salem townsfolk in 1693, and was later brought back from the dead by Max Dennison after three hundred years. Upon her return, Winifred begun to terrorize the town in hopes of kidnapping children and stealing their souls to keep herself from dying and aging once more.

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 single kiss with a young boy named 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.