"I hope it's not a bad idea to kill this bat intruder!" Screengrab via Netflix
Later, when her cousin Ambrose inquires about her weird mood, she says, “Some people may say that a bat crashing through a window is a bad omen.” Absit omen, in this case, is a spell or prayer of sorts, spoken in hope that whatever it is the errant bat predicts - the danger of selling your identity to Satan, perhaps - doesn’t come true. The literal translation of the term is “may omen be absent.” Put another way, it can be interpreted as “may what is said not come true” or “may this not be an ill omen.”īeing a witch, we can assume Sabrina is trained to see bad signs when they appear. Unless you were particularly good at high school Latin or are well-versed in the writings of Karl Marx, it’s not likely you’ve come across this phrase, which is pretty obscure even for old Latin phrases. Before she slams it with a heavy book, she whispers: “Absit omen*. Spooked, Sabrina knows it needs to be put out of its misery. The bat crumples to the ground, screeching in pain as its broken wing twitches miserably.
Omen or not, a bat crashing through a window is pretty spooky.
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