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Weird Sisters

also called  Three Witches 
Photograph:Macbeth and the Witches, oil on canvas by Joseph Anton Koch, 1835.
Macbeth and the Witches, oil on canvas by Joseph Anton Koch, 1835.
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Photograph:Macbeth visits the Weird Sisters (Three Witches) on the blasted heath; title page by John Gilbert …
Macbeth visits the Weird Sisters (Three Witches) on the blasted heath; title page by John Gilbert …
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The Weird Sisters (Three Witches) conspire in Act I, scene 1, of Shakespeare's …
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the creatures who prophesy the destinies of the main characters in Shakespeare's Macbeth. The term Weird Sisters was first used by Scots writers as a sobriquet for the Fates of Greek and Roman mythology. Through its appearance in Raphael Holinshed's Chronicles, the expression passed to William Shakespeare.

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