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The Three Witches or Weird Sisters are characters in William Shakespeare's play Macbeth (c. 1603--1607). Their origin lies in Holinshed's Chronicles (1587), a history of England, Scotland and Ireland. Other possible sources influencing their creation aside from Shakespeare's own imagination include British folklore, contemporary treatises on witchcraft including King James I and VI's Daemonologie, Scandinavian legends of the Norns, and ancient classical myths concerning the Fates, the Greek myths of the Moirai and the Roman myths of the Parcae. Portions of Thomas Middleton's play The Witch were incorporated into Macbeth around 1618.
Shakespeare's witches are prophets who hail the general Macbeth early in the play with predictions of his rise as king. Upon committing regicide and taking the throne of Scotland, Macbeth hears the trio deliver ambiguous prophecies threatening his downfall. The witches' dark and contradictory natures, their filthy trappings and activities, as well as their intercourse with the supernatural all set an ominous tone for the play.
In the eighteenth century the witches were portrayed in a variety of ways by artists such as Henry Fuseli. Since then, their role has proven somewhat difficult for many directors to portray, due to the tendency to make their parts exaggerated or overly sensational. Some have adapted the original Macbeth into different cultures, as in Orson Welles's performance making the witches voodoo priestesses. Film adaptations have seen the witches transformed into characters familiar to the modern world, such as hippies on drugs or goth schoolgirls. Their influence reaches the literary realm as well in such works as The Third Witch and the Harry Potter series.
Come and Go, a short play written in 1965 by Samuel Beckett, recalls the Three Witches of Shakespeare's Macbeth. It features only three characters, all women, named Flo, Vi, and Ru. The opening line: When did we three last meet? [28] recalls the When shall we three meet again? of Macbeth: Act 1, Scene 1.[29] The Third Witch, a 2001 novel written by Rebecca Reisert, tells the story of the play through the eyes of a young girl named Gilly, one of the witches. Gilly seeks Macbeth's death out of revenge for killing her father.[30]
J. K. Rowling has cited the Three Witches in Shakespeare's Macbeth as an influence in her Harry Potter series. In an interview with The Leaky Cauldron and MuggleNet, when asked, What if [ Voldemort ] never heard the prophecy?, she said, It's the 'Macbeth' idea. I absolutely adore 'Macbeth.' It is possibly my favourite Shakespeare play. And that's the question isn't it? If Macbeth hadn't met the witches, would he have killed Duncan? Would any of it have happened? Is it fated or did he make it happen? I believe he made it happen.[31] On her website, she referred to Macbeth again in discussing the prophecy: the prophecy (like the one the witches make to Macbeth, if anyone has read the play of the same name) becomes the catalyst for a situation that would never have occurred if it had not been made.[32] More playfully, Rowling also invented a musical band popular in the Wizarding world called The Weird Sisters that appears in passing in several books in the series as well as the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. The third Harry Potter movie's soundtrack featured a song by John Williams called Double Trouble, a reference to the witches' line, Double double, toil and trouble. The lyrics of the song were adapted from the Three Witches' spell in the play.
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Kyoto
00:00:28 1 Name
00:01:32 2 History
00:01:41 2.1 Origins
00:02:06 2.2 Heian-kyō
00:04:14 2.3 Modern Kyoto
00:05:56 3 Geography
00:07:44 4 Demographics
00:08:20 5 Climate
00:08:59 6 Politics and government
00:09:28 6.1 Kyoto City Assembly
00:09:37 6.2 Elections
00:09:59 6.3 Wards
00:10:19 7 Culture
00:14:09 8 Economy
00:16:00 9 Colleges and universities
00:17:38 10 Transportation
00:17:47 10.1 Airport
00:18:31 10.2 Buses
00:19:55 10.3 Cycling
00:20:30 10.4 Roads
00:21:42 10.5 Rail
00:22:35 10.5.1 Subway
00:22:52 10.5.1.1 Karasuma Line
00:24:20 10.5.1.2 Tozai Line
00:25:50 10.5.2 High-speed rail
00:26:35 10.6 Waterways
00:27:33 11 Tourism
00:27:46 11.1 UNESCO World Heritage Site
00:28:21 11.2 Museums
00:28:30 11.3 Festivals
00:29:14 12 Sports
00:29:23 12.1 Football
00:30:13 12.2 Baseball
00:30:56 12.3 Horse racing
00:31:20 12.4 Tennis
00:31:36 13 International relations
00:32:01 13.1 Twin towns and sister cities
00:32:15 13.2 Partner cities
00:32:40 14 See also
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Kyoto (京都, Kyōto, ; Japanese: [kʲoːꜜto] (listen)), officially Kyoto City (京都市, Kyōto-shi, Japanese: [kʲoːtoꜜɕi] (listen)), is the capital city of Kyoto Prefecture, located in the Kansai region of Japan. It is most well known in Japanese history for being the former Imperial capital of Japan for more than one thousand years, as well as a major part of the Kyoto-Osaka-Kobe metropolitan area.
Kyoto | Wikipedia audio article
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00:00:28 1 Name
00:01:38 2 History
00:01:48 2.1 Origins
00:02:15 2.2 Heian-kyō
00:04:38 2.3 Modern Kyoto
00:06:29 3 Geography
00:08:29 4 Demographics
00:09:08 5 Climate
00:09:49 6 Politics and government
00:10:21 6.1 Kyoto City Assembly
00:10:30 6.2 Elections
00:10:54 6.3 Wards
00:11:15 7 Culture
00:15:28 8 Economy
00:17:31 9 Colleges and universities
00:19:19 10 Transportation
00:19:28 10.1 Airport
00:20:16 10.2 Buses
00:21:49 10.3 Cycling
00:22:26 10.4 Roads
00:23:44 10.5 Rail
00:24:41 10.5.1 Subway
00:25:00 10.5.1.1 Karasuma Line
00:26:36 10.5.1.2 Tozai Line
00:28:14 10.5.2 High-speed rail
00:29:05 10.6 Waterways
00:30:08 11 Tourism
00:30:22 11.1 UNESCO World Heritage Site
00:31:00 11.2 Museums
00:31:09 11.3 Festivals
00:31:56 12 Sports
00:32:06 12.1 Football
00:33:01 12.2 Baseball
00:33:47 12.3 Horse racing
00:34:13 12.4 Tennis
00:34:30 13 International relations
00:34:56 13.1 Twin towns and sister cities
00:35:11 13.2 Partner cities
00:35:39 14 See also
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Kyoto (京都, Kyōto, ; Japanese: [kʲoːꜜto] (listen)), officially Kyoto City (京都市, Kyōto-shi, Japanese: [kʲoːtoꜜɕi] (listen)), is the capital city of Kyoto Prefecture, located in the Kansai region of Japan. For over a thousand years, Kyoto was the Imperial capital of Japan but is now a major part of the Kyoto-Osaka-Kobe metropolitan area.