The Circle is the only known coven in The Craft. The coven consists of Rochelle Zimmerman, Bonnie Harper, Nancy Downs and Sarah Bailey. The circle started after they did an initiation and became one with nature.
Background[]
The Circle wasn't a complete coven since it only consisted of 3 members Rochelle, Nancy, and Bonnie. The girls had still practiced spells but it never worked without a 4th member.
In class at St. Benedict's Catholic School Bonnie spots Sarah making a pencil move in class without touching it. When Sarah sees Bonnie staring she immeadiently drops the pencil and gets back to class. Bonnie then notifies the girls that Sarah is "the 4th one" that they need for their coven to complete.
Nancy, Rochelle, and Bonnie immeadiently recruit Sarah and invite Sarah to hand out with them while she was watching Chris Hooker at Football practice. The girls then go to Lirio's Occult Shop where they steal supplies for rituals. They then explain to Sarah who Manon is, the deity who they worship and get their power from. The girls then perform a ritual and become a complete coven.
The coven is known to have each other's backs and be like sisters. Throughout the film Sarah, Nancy, Rochelle, and Bonnie all help each other throughout their struggles and are like best friends. Sarah helped Rochelle perform a spell against Laura Lizzie making her bald, Nancy helps Bonnie with her burnt skin using a spell to make it better and enhance her beauty.
Nancy then starts to become more distant from the Circle when a spell she tries doesn't work. Nancy then kills her step-father Ray Saunders and gets a sum of 175 grand. The circle then performs an invocation of the spirit ritual together to give Nancy more power from "Manon". Nancy ends up getting more power and the girls are changed. Sarah warns them that it will come back in threefold, meaning three times worse than intended.
The coven then begins to turn against Sarah once she starts to disagree with Nancy killing Chris and Ray. The girls then begin to stalk her and perform spells on her that torture her. The girls then plan to fake her suicide and kill her. Sarah in her last few moments then performs the invocation of the spirit ritual and gets power from "Manon" to stop Nancy, Rochelle, and Bonnie. Sarah then performed a binding spell on Nancy, Rochelle and Bonnie making them not able to cause any harm to others or to themselves and stopping them from using magic overall.
The circle then ended up disbanding while Nancy was institutionalized, Rochelle and Bonnie without their powers, and Sarah distanced from them ever since their murder attempt. Bonnie and Rochelle ended up visiting Sarah in the last few minutes of the film apopligizing insincerely to her about the suicide attmept.
Notable Spells[]
Note: These are only spells The Circle performed together, individual spells can be seen on their pages[]
- Invocation of the Spirit-When invoking the spirit and reaching to a higher power, Manon, to enhance their witch powers.
- Levitation-Nancy, Bonnie and Sarah use this to lift Rochelle and make her feel "light as a feather"