Evidence of witchcraft and the supernatural in 'Macbeth' by Emily Kinghorn (Staff) https://padlet.com/emilykinghorn/wepwfz7zveqjjirl Look through the text and pick out key quotations you think shows Witchcraft at work en-us 2021-05-20 10:39:19 UTC 2025-09-24 23:29:04 UTC hello@padlet.com Act 1 Scene 3 emilykinghorn https://padlet.com/emilykinghorn/wepwfz7zveqjjirl/wish/1543248603 'Her husband's to Aleppo gone, master o'th'Tiger: / But in a sieve I'll thither sail, / And like a rat without a tail, / I'll do, I'll do, and I'll do... I'll drain him dry as hay / Sleep shall neither night nor day'

One of the witches shows how she is getting revenge on a sailor's wife but not letting him sleep. They will 'drain him' of life and energy by doing so.]]> 2021-05-20 10:39:34 UTC https://padlet.com/emilykinghorn/wepwfz7zveqjjirl/wish/1543248603 https://padlet.com/emilykinghorn/wepwfz7zveqjjirl/wish/1557791897 "like a rat without a tail" This is obviously an unnatural thing which shows the supernatural theme in the play. This also links to the idea that witches played with animals and did experiments on them.

 "I'll do, I'll do, and I'll do" This could show a sort of chant revealing possibly a spell that witches can cast.

"I'll drain him dry as hay" This links to the idea that witches can mess with the different states of matter as they are draining this man of all the water he has.

]]> 2021-05-25 14:24:53 UTC https://padlet.com/emilykinghorn/wepwfz7zveqjjirl/wish/1557791897 "Drain him as dry as hay." https://padlet.com/emilykinghorn/wepwfz7zveqjjirl/wish/1557792400 You can infer from this quote that they are trying to kill him/fatally harm him. ]]> 2021-05-25 14:25:00 UTC https://padlet.com/emilykinghorn/wepwfz7zveqjjirl/wish/1557792400 emilykinghorn https://padlet.com/emilykinghorn/wepwfz7zveqjjirl/wish/1557797592 Where hast thou been, sister?
Second Witch
Killing swine.
Third Witch
Sister, where thou?

can see a reference to killing swine/animals - they want to and do cause harm
]]> 2021-05-25 14:26:07 UTC https://padlet.com/emilykinghorn/wepwfz7zveqjjirl/wish/1557797592 "Sleep shall neither night nor day" https://padlet.com/emilykinghorn/wepwfz7zveqjjirl/wish/1557802993 This quote shows a witch that tries to give the man insomnia by draining him of all of this sleep, which could be used as draining his energy.]]> 2021-05-25 14:27:17 UTC https://padlet.com/emilykinghorn/wepwfz7zveqjjirl/wish/1557802993 emilykinghorn https://padlet.com/emilykinghorn/wepwfz7zveqjjirl/wish/1557807540 The weird sisters, hand in hand,
Posters of the sea and land,

explicitly call themselves weird sisters, and that they are together hand in hand as a 'family']]> 2021-05-25 14:28:16 UTC https://padlet.com/emilykinghorn/wepwfz7zveqjjirl/wish/1557807540