Three Witches
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The Three Witches, also known as the Weird Sisters, Weyward Sisters or Wayward Sisters, are characters in William Shakespeare's play Macbeth. The witches eventually lead Macbeth to his demise, and the
Scene from Macbeth, depicting the witches' conjuring of an apparition in Act IV, Scene I. Painting by William Rimmer
Macbeth's Hillock, near Brodie Castle, is traditionally identified as the "blasted heath" where Macbeth and Banquo first met the "weird sisters".
Macbeth and Banquo with the Witches by Henry Fuseli
Francisco Goya's Volaverunt
Daemonologie
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Daemonologie, In Forme of a Dialogue, Divided into three Books, usually known as Daemonologie, is a philosophical dissertation by James VI and I on contemporary necromancy and the historical relations
Three Witches
…Ireland. Other possible sources, apart from Shakespeare, include British folklore, contemporary treatises on witchcraft as King James VI of Scotland's Daemonologie, the Witch of Endor from the Bible, the Norns of Norse mythology, and ancient classical myths of the Fates: the Greek Moirai and the Roman Parcae…
Title page of a 1603 reprinting
Suspected witches kneeling before King James, Daemonologie (1597)