Winifred "Winnie" Sanderson is a fictional character and the main antagonist in Disney's 1993 film, Hocus Pocus, and its 2022 sequel. She is the eldest of the Sanderson sisters and is the most intelligent, competent, and powerful witch who lived during the time of the Salem Witch Trials, along with her two dimwitted younger sisters, Sarah and Mary.
For her activities in witchcraft, she was sentenced to death by the Salem townsfolk alongside her sisters in 1693, and was later brought back from the dead after 300 years by California-native Max Dennison, albeit unwittingly and in scornful disbelief at first. Upon her return, Winifred began to terrorize the town in hopes of kidnapping children and stealing their lifeforces to keep herself from dying and aging once more.
