Embed from Getty Images Double double toil and trouble/Fire burn and cauldron bubble. Many people have heard this rhyming couplet from Macbeth, and may even recognize it as an incantation of the three Witches. We first meet these three oddities at the play’s famous opening. Entering boldly in a “desert place” featuring thunder and lightning, it’s one of Shakespeare’s most theatrical scenes in any of his plays. Later, Macbeth visits these three for some rather sketchy career advice, and it... Read more