mediumaevum:

Medium Aevum’s official Halloween tune!

An eerie (but fun) interpretation of:

William Shakespeare

from Macbeth

A dark Cave. In the middle, a Caldron boiling. Thunder.

                Enter the three Witches.

       1 WITCH.  Thrice the brinded cat hath mew’d. 
       2 WITCH.  Thrice and once, the hedge-pig whin’d. 
       3 WITCH.  Harpier cries:—’tis time! ‘tis time! 
       1 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. 
       2 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. 
       3 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. 
       2 WITCH.  Cool it with a baboon’s blood, 
    Then the charm is firm and good.