Angelique Collins was a witch who terrorized the Collins family in the early 1800s. She fell in love and became madly obsessed with a man named Barnabas Collins. Barnabas however, spurned her affection in favor of his own paramour, Josette DuPres. Bitter with envy, Angelique turned her supernatural powers against Barnabas and placed a curse upon him – a curse that transformed Barnabas into a vampire.