"Double, Double, Toil and Trouble, Fire Burn and Cauldron Bubble! " Annotations for the Witches' Chants from Shakespeare's Macbeth First Witch Thrice the brinded cat hath mew'd. Second Witch Thrice and once the hedge-pigwhined. Third Witch Harpier cries "'Tis time, 'tis time." First Witch Round about the cauldron go; In the poison'd entrails throw. Toad, that under cold stone Days and nights has thirty-one Swelter'd venom sleeping got, Boil thou first i' the charmed pot. All Double, double, toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble. Second Witch Fillet of a fenny snake, In the cauldron boil and bake; Eye of newt and toe of frog, Wool of bat and tongue of dog, Adder's fork and blind-worm's sting, Lizard's leg and howlet's wing, For a charm of powerful trouble, Like a hell-broth boil and bubble. All Double, double, toil and trouble; Fire burn and cauldron bubble. Third Witch Scale of dragon, tooth of wolf, Witches' mummy, maw and gulf Of the ravin'd salt-sea shark, Root of hemlock digg'd i' the dark, Liver of blaspheming Jew, Gall of goat, and slips of yew Silver'd in the moon's eclipse, Nose of Turk and Tartar's lips, Finger of birth-strangled babe Ditch-deliver'd by a drab, Make the gruel thick and slab: Add thereto a tiger's chaudron, For the ingredients of our cauldron. All Double, double, toil and trouble; Fire burn and cauldron bubble. Second Witch Cool it with a baboon's blood, Then the charm is firm and good. Hecate O well done! I commend your pains; And every one shall share i' the gains; And now about the cauldron sing, Live elves and fairies in a ring, Enchanting all that you put in. Second Witch By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes. Open, locks, Whoever knocks! #macbethph #shakespeareoracle #shakespeare #witchcraft #witches #magic #magick #halloween #Samhain #threewitches #themooncard #moon #elementsofmagick #tarottidbits #tarotcards #oracle #hecate (at Greensboro, North Carolina)
