Something Wicked This Way Comes
The Three Witches refer to themselves as "The _______ Sisters."
What is Weird?
This first named character to die in the play.
Who is Thane of Cawdor? Executed for treason.
The three different titles Macbeth holds throughout the play.
What are Thane of Glamis, Thane of Cawdor, King of Scotland?
Macbeth uses this ocean god's name when claiming that all the water in the seas could not wash the blood from his hands.
Who is Neptune?
This bird croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan under Lady Macbeth's battlements.
What is a raven?
The Three Witches possess this masculine physical trait.
What are beards?
Lady Macbeth's cause of death.
What is suicide?
The witches perform a ritual in their circle and chant, "thrice to thine and thrice to mine and thrice again" to arrive at this number, which they say completes the charm.
What is nine?
The Captain uses this verb to describe Macbeth's sword: "[Macbeth's] brandished steel ________ with bloody execution."
What is smoke?
This strange occurrence happens to Duncan's prize horses on the night of his murder.
What is they turn on each other and start to eat each other.
What are thumbs?
Who is Macbeth? or Young Siward.
Three birds referenced in the play.
There are sparrows, eagles, ravens, ‘martlets’ (house martens), owls, falcons, crows, chickens, kites, ‘maggot-pies’ (magpies), choughs, rooks, and wrens. In the case of a little ‘howlet’ missing its wing, provide an ingredient ‘for a charm of powerful trouble’ brewed by the weird sisters.
Macbeth says to Banquo's ghost, "Never shake thy gory locks at me!" The plain-English translation of "gory locks."
What is blood-soaked hair?
Macbeth invokes this predatory arachnid when he says to his dutiful wife, "O, full of ______ is my mind, dear wife!"
What are scorpions?
The First Witch tortures a sailor by depriving him of sleep for "seven-nights nine times nine," which equals this number of days without rest.
What is 567 days?
The Three Witches' brew calls for the finger of a "birth-strangled babe, ditch-delivered by a drab." This is the plain-English translation.
What is a baby strangled at birth, born in a ditch to a prostitute?
Three characters who can see and speak directly to the witches.
Who are Macbeth, Banquo, and Hecate?
At the end of the play, Malcolm holds this up as he speaks to his constituents.
What is Macbeth's bloody head?
The Second Witch admits to this murderous deed after The First Witch asks, "Where has't thou been, sister?" (Hint: it probably took place in a sty).
What is killing swine?
The sailor's wife refuses to share this food item, which makes the First Witch so angry that she hunts down the woman's husband and torments him at sea.
What are chestnuts?
Macbeth reflects on the meaningless of life, saying that life is a tale told by an ________.
Who is an idiot?
Three visions only Macbeth can see.
What are the floating dagger, Banquo's ghost, and the apparitions?
The "bleeding Captain" who opens Act 1, Scene 2 reports that Macbeth killed this rebel by unseaming him "from the nave to the chaps" and fixing his head on their battlements.
Who is Macdonwald?
Macbeth references these three animals when he says to Banquo's ghost: "What man dare, I dare. / Approach thou like the rugged Russian _____, / The armed _____, or th’ Hyrcan______."
What are a bear, a rhino, and a tiger?