Happy Halloween to One and All!

Round about the cauldron go;  

In the poison’d entrails throw.  

Toad, that under cold stone   

Days and nights hast thirty one  

Swelter’d venom sleeping got,  

Boil thou first i’ the charmed pot.  

     Double, double toil and trouble;  

     Fire burn and cauldron bubble. 

Fillet of a fenny snake,  

In the cauldron 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 howlet’s wing,  

For a charm of powerful trouble,

Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.  

     Double, double toil and trouble;  

     Fire burn and cauldron bubble. 

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 ingredients of our cauldron.

     Double, double toil and trouble;  

     Fire burn and cauldron bubble. 

Macbeth, Act IV, Scene I

William Shakespeare, 1564 - 1616

This poem is in the public domain


According to this Macbeth Glossary *chaudron are entrails.  Who knew?

By Pumpkins fat and witches lean...

By coal black cats with eyes of green,

By all the magic ever seen...

I wish you luck this Halloween..

Happy Halloween to family, friends, and all readers of my blog. Stay safe this Halloween. Me? I will be hiding under the bed covers. 

I must say a very big thank you to Yvonne for this fantastic Halloween card (right).  If you have not had the pleasure of meeting Yvonne, you will find her over at her Etsy shop here

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