Shakespeare plays a WITCH, a 'weird sister'

Illustration: Shakespeare plays a witch dressed in ragged clothing and a bright yellow wig; he looks alert, stopping in mid-step as though he has just heard something, hand up-held

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The 'weird sisters' are chanting and casting evil spells around a bubbling cauldron. Suddenly they are distracted by the approach of the deranged Macbeth.
Macbeth
Act 4 Scene 1

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What Banquo said
about the witches:

"What are these, so withered, and so wild in their attire, that look not like the inhabitants of the earth, and yet are
on it?"

Macbeth
Act 1 Scene 3