10.31.2009

Double Double Toil and Trouble. . .




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If you memorize just a fraction of this- you will be the most popular person at the next witches gathering! It will surely delight any of your wee friends.


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.

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.


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



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2 comments:

  1. I love those images! In fact I love everything about witches and witchcraft :) Thank you for sharing!

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  2. Very nice pictures!... thanks for sharing and keep posting..

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