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... sisters , " " weird sisters " and " ye Goddesses of destinie or els some Nimphes or Feiries endewed [ al . indued ] with knowledge of prophesie by their Nicromanticall science " and just as Holinshed found them in Wyntoun's Orygynale ...
... sisters , " " weird sisters " and " ye Goddesses of destinie or els some Nimphes or Feiries endewed [ al . indued ] with knowledge of prophesie by their Nicromanticall science " and just as Holinshed found them in Wyntoun's Orygynale ...
Page xlii
... weird sisters , the wizards and the certain witch of Holinshed ] in his weird - sister witches . . . who speak a language which admits the extremes of sublimity and gross- ness , of mystic suggestion and realistic detail , the wild ele ...
... weird sisters , the wizards and the certain witch of Holinshed ] in his weird - sister witches . . . who speak a language which admits the extremes of sublimity and gross- ness , of mystic suggestion and realistic detail , the wild ele ...
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... sisters . " " It can scarcely be therefore a mere mistake for ' weird , ' as Theobald and modern editors suppose . Such a term as ' wayward sisters , ' the gloomy sis- ters , the grim sisters , presents a not uncommon association of ...
... sisters . " " It can scarcely be therefore a mere mistake for ' weird , ' as Theobald and modern editors suppose . Such a term as ' wayward sisters , ' the gloomy sis- ters , the grim sisters , presents a not uncommon association of ...
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