#the three witches

[weirdlookindog]

Richard Westall (1765-1836) - "The weird sisters, hand in hand", 1798

William Shakespeare's 'Macbeth' Act I Scene III: The Three Witches

engraved by James Stow (1770-1823)

[andythelemon]

3 witches 🏮

[jakattax]

Director: we know you’re good at making props, we could do with a spell book for the ‘double double’ scene.

Me: I got you fam.

[mask131]

The witches of Macbeth (2)

Here are more incarnations or subversions of the Weird Sisters.

The Lancre coven from Discworld's "Wyrd Sisters"

The spirit of Spiderweb Forest from "Throne of Blood"

The hippies from "Scotland, PA"

The Crones of Crookback Bog, from "The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt"

The Weird Sisters of Gargoyles

The Three from the "Sandman" comics

From "Macbeth: A Tale of Horror"

The three goddesses from "Toil and Trouble"

The Bayou Sisters from "The Crimson Cage"

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

This is my first post to the group. I did this in July 2023 at Lake Monroe, Sanford, FL. It reminds me of the three witches of Macbeth.  "When shall we three meet again? In thunder, lightning, or in rain?"

[Karen Kimmons Johnson]

* * * *

“Psychologists usually try to help people use insight and understanding to manage their behaviour. However, neuroscience research shows that very few psychological problems are the result of defects in understanding; most originate in pressures from deeper regions in the brain that drive our perception and attention.  When the alarm bell of the emotional brain keeps signaling that you are in danger, no amount of insight will silence it.”

— Bessel van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score

[bbatcat-09]

The three witches

Based vaguely on SFTH’s #4: The Dark Moons Of Slough.

[ask-three-witches]

is it impolite to ask how the three of you ended up together? how did you get where you are?

Hecate: I do wonder if they remember after all. I have never bothered to ask.

[zal-cryptid]

DC characters - The Three Witches

[motherfuckingmaneater]

No one understood us the way we three understood each other.

The Black sisters; Bellatrix, Andromeda & Narcissa.

[blackcatarts]

a goddess, a sister, and a tiny little freak

[weirdlookindog]

“Fair is foul, and foul is fair: Hover through the fog and filthy air.”

The Three Witches from Macbeth (1948)

[litinart]

the three witches by henry fuseli (1783)

[ineffably-flynn]

opening night for Macbeth slayed yesterday, now we have three more shows to go

[mask131]

And to top it all off, various other incarnations of my favorite midnight-hags:

[ohmelinoe]

[Three Witches, MacBeth, by James Henry Nixon]

First Witch: When shall we three meet again? In thunder, lightning, or in rain?

Second Witch: When the hurly-burly's done, When the battle's lost and won.

Third Witch: That will be ere the set of sun.

First Witch: Where the place?

Second Witch: Upon the heath.

Third Witch: There to meet with Macbeth.

Fair is foul, and foul is fair: Hover through the fog and filthy air.

[mask131]

So many people forget that the Sandman comics started out as a revival and an homage to both obscure DC comics and abandoned superheroes, as well as the world of the DC Comics horror.

Cain and Abel, with their gargoyles and Houses? Horror hosts of DC Comics. Lucien? Horror host of DC. Even Destiny of the Endless started out as a DC horror host.

(This is also why the very first arc of the Sandman can feel a bit weird and strange to people entirely unaware of the DC Universe, because it heavily relies on bringing the character of Dream as a bridge between many different facets of the old DC world ; and the Dreaming being a sort of internal explanation for the existence of all these horror anthologies - they literaly come from the land of nightmares...)

Hey Mr.Gaiman, I came across this panel from an issue of Sandman and I have to ask, given your history and friendship with Terry, are these three based off of his witches from his Discworld series?

No, they were old DC Comics characters I grabbed and pulled into my story. They were first seen in 1969.