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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 (c. 1603–1607). The witches eventually lead Macbeth to his demise, and they hold a striking resemblance to the three Fates of classical mythology .
Wyrd Sisters features three witches: Granny Weatherwax; Nanny Ogg, matriarch of a large tribe of Oggs and owner of the most evil cat in the world; and Magrat Garlick, the junior witch, who firmly believes in occult jewelry, covens, and bubbling cauldrons, much to the annoyance of the other two.
In the novel, the three vampire women are not individually named. Collectively, they are known as the "sisters", and are at one point described as the "weird sisters". [4] Although the three vampire women in Dracula are generally referred to as the "Brides of Dracula" in popular culture and media, they are never referred to as such in the novel ...
The Weird Sisters are characters in William Shakespeare's play Macbeth. Weird Sisters may also refer to: Weird Sisters (Gargoyles), fairy characters in Gargoyles; The Weird Sisters (Harry Potter), a fictional rock band in the Harry Potter series; The Weird Sisters, a book by Eleanor Brown; Weird Sisters, nickname of the fictional Brides of Dracula
In Dante's Divine Comedy, the Fates are mentioned in both Inferno (XXXIII.126) and Purgatorio (XXI.25-27, XXV.79-81) by their Greek names, and their traditional role in measuring out and determining the length of human life is assumed by the narrator. Macbeth and Banquo meeting the three weird sisters in a woodcut from Holinshed's Chronicles.
Adjectival use of wyrd developed in the 15th century, in the sense 'having the power to control destiny', originally in the name of the Weird Sisters, i.e. the classical Fates, who in the Elizabethan period were detached from their classical background and given an English personification as fays. The Three Witches by Henry Fuseli (1783)
The weird/sexual “prank calls”, the ex bf involvement, and C*x weird hints. YEARS later, aside from being completely unsolved, anytime ANYONE comes close to figuring it out, something ends up ...
The origin of the name norn is uncertain; it may derive from a word meaning 'to twine', which would refer to their twining the thread of fate. [2] Bek-Pedersen suggests that the word norn has relation to the Swedish dialect word norna (nyrna), a verb that means 'communicate secretly'. This interpretation relates to the perception of norns as ...