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Halloween Series: Witches in Fiction ✨
TheThree Witches, also known as the Weird SistersorWayward Sisters, are characters in MacbethbyWilliam Shakespeare. The witches eventually lead Macbeth to his demise, and hold a striking resemblance to the Three Fates of classical mythology (The Moirai). Shakespeare’s witches are prophets who hail Macbeth early in the play, and predict his ascent to kingship. Upon killing the king and gaining the throne of Scotland, Macbeth hears them ambiguously predict his eventual downfall. The witches, and their ‘filthy’ trappings and supernatural activities, set an ominous tone for the play. The infamous ‘Double double toil and trouble, Fire burn and cauldron bubble‘ is a rhyming couplet chanted by the three witches. It is among the most quoted lines from Shakespeare, mainly because of its sing-song rhythm and its rhyming.
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Halloween Series: Witches in Fiction ✨
Jadis the White Witch is the main antagonist in ‘The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe’ novel by C.S. Lewis. In the novel Jadis has usurped power over Narnia, having magically forced the land into an ‘endless winter’ during her reign, which had lasted for a hundred years. Though it is always winter, she prevents Christmas from ever coming.When the Pevensie children arrive in Narnia via Digory’s magical wardrobe, it is explained to them that, according to an ancient prophecy; ‘When two sons of Adam and two daughters of Eve fill the four thrones at Cair Paravel as Kings and Queens of Narnia, the reign of the White Witch and the endless winter would end.’ Jadis is well aware of the prophecy, and employs spies to tell her of any human that comes to Narnia. The White Witch’s most notorious deed, aside from uttering the Deplorable Word that destroys Charn, is killing Aslan on the Stone Table (as a surrogate for Edmund), her right by the Deep Magic. Aslan returns to life by Deeper Magic, and in the subsequent battle, Aslan kills the witch, ending her reign of terror.
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Halloween Series: Witches in Fiction ✨
Sallyand Gillian Owens are powerful but cursed witches who are also descendants of Maria Owens in the novel Practical Magic by writer Alice Hoffman. They were both adopted by their by their eccentric and free-spirited aunts, Bridget (Jet)andFrancis Owens after their parents tragically died because of a family curse. The curse meant that any man who dare fall in love with an Owen’s woman were ultimately doomed to die which was signalled by the sound of the Deathwatch Beetle. The aunts raised the Sally and Gillian without discipline or rules, allowing them to drink soda for breakfast and candy for dinner. However, after the girls stumble upon a mysterious book of spells in the attic, the aunts explain to the girls that they are all descended from a long and powerful line of witches. Initially, the girls refuse to believe their aunts, until they begin teaching them how to unlock their magical powers.
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