Hecate

Role: witch-goddess · First appears: Macbeth · Act III, Scene V

Life events

• Hecate summons Macbeth to meet her and learn his destiny.(Macbeth · Act III, Scene V · 📍 pit of Acheron)
  • With: Macbeth
  • “And at the pit of Acheron Meet me i’ th’ morning: thither he Will come to know his destiny.”
• Hecate plans magical sprites to lure Macbeth toward confusion.(Macbeth · Act III, Scene V)
  • With: Macbeth
  • “Great business must be wrought ere noon. Upon the corner of the moon There hangs a vap’rous drop profound; I’ll catch it ere it come to ground: And that, distill’d by magic sleights, Shall raise such artificial sprites, As, by the strength of their illusion, Shall draw him on to his confusion.”

Macbeth · Act III, Scene V

• with Macbeth (Hecate is involved in supernatural dealings concerning Macbeth.) “To trade and traffic with Macbeth In riddles and affairs of death;”

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Extracted from the original text of Shakespeare's Tragedies. Made with Rho MD.