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SageCat · Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2007 11:04 am Post subject: Eye of Newt .........

In honour of Samhain I thought I'd post the infamous 3 witches scene from Macbeth.

Old Will certainly had a way with words ............ brilliant stuff!

1 WITCH. Thrice the brinded cat hath mew’d.

2 WITCH. Thrice and once, the hedge-pig whin’d.

3 WITCH. Harpier cries:—’tis time! ’tis time!

1 WITCH. Round about the caldron 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 caldron bubble.

2 WITCH. Fillet of a fenny snake,
In the caldron 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 owlet’s wing,—
For a charm of powerful trouble,
Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.
ALL. Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn, and caldron bubble.

3 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
Sliver’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 ingrediants of our caldron.
ALL. Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn, and caldron bubble.

2 WITCH. Cool it with a baboon’s blood,
Then the charm is firm and good.

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RavenStar · Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2007 12:41 pm Post subject:

Excellent SC ~ thanks

Riktor48 · Admin Joined: 11 Aug 2007 Posts: 1281 Location: Essex, UK

Nice one SC!

I take it you're the one in't middle stirring the cauldron?

But who are the two on either side........?
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Learn from the birds what food the thickets yield; Learn from the beasts the physic of the field; The arts of building from the bee receive; Learn of the mole to plough, the worm to weave. (Alexander Pope - Essay on Man)

SageCat · Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2007 4:20 pm Post subject:

*Cackle cackle, cackle*

RS is holding the besom, and Minty is on my right. I think that RS may have overdone it a bit with the lipstick though!

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RavenStar · Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2007 4:27 pm Post subject:

I think the colur suits me

I look a bit green though SC ~ what on earth are you cooking in there??

Riktor48 · Admin Joined: 11 Aug 2007 Posts: 1281 Location: Essex, UK

Probably me...................
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Learn from the birds what food the thickets yield; Learn from the beasts the physic of the field; The arts of building from the bee receive; Learn of the mole to plough, the worm to weave. (Alexander Pope - Essay on Man)

SageCat · Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2007 6:00 pm Post subject:

Naahh .............. there'd be too many bones to pick out! Evil Snigger

I'm just rustling up a little something to get us three airborne on that besom of RS's on Samhain Eve. Might even drop in and see you Sir!

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Riktor48 · Admin Joined: 11 Aug 2007 Posts: 1281 Location: Essex, UK

Awwwwwww........ I don't even have the dubious honour of being slowly stewed

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Learn from the birds what food the thickets yield; Learn from the beasts the physic of the field; The arts of building from the bee receive; Learn of the mole to plough, the worm to weave. (Alexander Pope - Essay on Man)

SageCat · Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2007 6:22 pm Post subject:

Well if you insist I could probably cram you into the cauldron ................... but we'd miss you Sir, and I'd not have anyone to inflict smilie violence on!

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RavenStar · Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2007 6:50 pm Post subject:

You'll have to find a Man Witch smilie for 'im SC