Bevan Thomas

FIRST WITCH: Why, how now, Hecate! You look angrily.

HECATE: Have I not reason, beldams, as you are
Saucy and overbold? How did you dare
To trade and traffic with Macbeth
In riddles and affairs of death;
And I, the mistress of your charms,
The close contriver of all harms,
Was never call'd to bear my part,
Or show the glory of our art?

- William Shakespeare, "Macbeth" (Act 3, Scene 5)

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Show threadRay McCarthy5h ago
@bevanthomas
I always thought the 3 Fates is more accurate than 3 witches. Originally Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos in Greece.
Hectate wasn't 1, though like the Morrigna became 3 fold.
The Norse Norns, Urðr, Verðandi, and Skuld, remind me also of the Greek Fates and Shakespeare's three witches.
There is also the Maiden, Mother & Crone in Western tradition which is variously 3 separate witches or 3 aspects (like Hectate became) of one witch or a fay/sidhe. Though fay are usually like maidens.
Show threadVirginicus57m ago
@bevanthomas The witches needed someone who spoke in pentameters.