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Cousin Zsa Zsa Goowhiggie: Zsa Zsa (played by Sheryl Lee Ralph) appeared in only one episode ( What Price Harvey? in Season Three). She was a notorious prankster who sold a line of Ambition products. Salem pinched some concealer from her make-up bag to try to hide some bags under his eyes, but he used too much, and made himself invisible, and she also gave Hilda and Zelda some Walk-a-Mile moccasins which switched their personalities. Sabrina sought Zsa Zsa's help when Harvey told her he was not going to college, so she sold her the whole line of Ambition products. Unfortunately, they turned Harvey into a ruthless businessman. Zsa Zsa was forced to import some perspective which came in the form of an eyeball which Sabrina used to make Harvey normal again. At the end of her visit, Zsa Zsa gave Sabrina her clue to the family secret: a snake.

Great Aunt Irma: Irma (played by Barbara Eden) is the matriarch of the Spellman family, and, as Zelda described her, Dreaded holy terror of the Other Realm . She first appeared in A Birthday Witch in Season Six where she tried Harvey to be sure he could keep the fact that Sabrina was a witch to himself. Harvey passed Irma's test, and she let him go, but she turned Hilda, Zelda and Salem into three pigs after Hilda called her prune face (it was easy to tell which pig Salem was as one of the pigs was all black). Sabrina bravely stood up to Aunt Irma (which nobody else has ever done), and Irma removed her spell; when Sabrina confronted her, she mentioned that she was busy frying her brother-in-law. When her daughter, Phyllis told a mortal that she was a witch, Irma trapped her daughter in a snow globe. She appeared in two more episodes (Season Six's The Arrangement and Season Seven's A Fish Tale). The casting of Barbara Eden is a reference to her role of Jeannie in I Dream of Jeannie.

Great Granny: Granny (played by the late Alice Ghostley) appeared in only one episode, Witch Trash . She is Hilda's and Zelda's grandmother and Sabrina's great-grandmother. She arrived to settle the feud among Hilda, Zelda and their hillbilly cousins. Granny owned the magic book but passed it down to Hilda and Zelda in one of her many wills.

Jerry Springer Springer appeared in Mrs. Kraft where Sabrina and Hilda bring back Mr. Kraft's ex-wife, Lucy, to lure him away. The Spellman's, Mr. Kraft, and Lucy all ended up on The Jerry Springer Show (a production of Studios USA Television, now NBC Universal Television Distribution.) Sabrina said she was not comfortable living with Mr. Kraft, so she and Hilda decided to bring back Lucy. When the audience gasped in shock, Sabrina said she did not know Lucy was a witch, and Hilda started yelling at the audience (most of what she was saying was bleeped out to make it sound like she was swearing). Their appearance on the show ended with a fight between Zelda and Lucy. In this series, he appears to have magical powers.