A Halloween recipe, of sorts-- Be safe, friends!

All Hallows Eve!

Here's a recipe for you (and let's not create it, shall we?!). Have a safe and amusing day. 

I'll be back chatting with you tomorrow.

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Macbeth, Act IV, sc. 1 (Folger Library)

Thunder. Enter the three Witches.

FIRST WITCH 
Thrice the brinded cat hath mewed.
SECOND WITCH 
Thrice, and once the hedge-pig whined.
THIRD WITCH 
Harpier cries “’Tis time, ’tis time!”
FIRST WITCH 
Round about the cauldron go;
In the poisoned entrails throw.
Toad, that under cold stone
Days and nights has thirty-one
Sweltered venom sleeping got,
Boil thou first i’ th’ charmèd pot.
The Witches circle the cauldron.
ALL 
Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.
SECOND WITCH 
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 blindworm’s sting,
Lizard’s leg and howlet’s wing,
For a charm of powerful trouble,
Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.
ALL 
Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.
THIRD WITCH 
Scale of dragon, tooth of wolf,
Witch’s mummy, maw and gulf
Of the ravined salt-sea shark,
Root of hemlock digged i’ th’ dark,
Liver of blaspheming Jew,
Gall of goat and slips of yew
Slivered in the moon’s eclipse,
Nose of Turk and Tartar’s lips,
Finger of birth-strangled babe
Ditch-delivered by a drab,
Make the gruel thick and slab.
Add thereto a tiger’s chaudron
For th’ ingredience of our cauldron.
ALL 
Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.
SECOND WITCH 
Cool it with a baboon’s blood.
Then the charm is firm and good.

Enter Hecate to the other three Witches.

HECATE 
O, well done! I commend your pains,
And everyone shall share i’ th’ gains.
And now about the cauldron sing
Like elves and fairies in a ring,
Enchanting all that you put in.
Music and a song: “Black Spirits,” etc. Hecate exits.