PLEASE ANSWER THIS IS DUE TOMORROW!!! When Jacobean audiences watched Macbeth and heard the three witches talking, they would
have witnessed Shakespeare's own conjuring of the strange and supernatural. At the same time,
some of the conversation of the 'weird sisters' would have seemed ordinary and familiar. In Act 1,
Scene 3, the first witch tells her sisters that once when she saw a woman eating chestnuts she
demanded some: 'Give me!' (1.3.4), but the woman called her 'witch' and ordered her away. The
first witch then plans the harm she will cause the woman's husband, a sailor on a ship, and the
three witches cast a spell or ‘charm' in retaliation (1.3.37). In Shakespeare's England, this alleged
practice was known as 'mischief following anger', and it was one of the most common charges
against suspected witches in cases brought to trial. Most often, it was old, poor, often widowed
women who were accused of these acts of angry revenge: a woman would beg for food or drink
and when she was turned away she might respond angrily; later, when something unfortunate -
such as a bad harvest or an ordinary illness - happened to the person who had denied the woman
charity, the old woman would be blamed for their problems. Shakespeare's enactment on stage of
the witches plotting mischief would have intensified familiar fears of the harm witches could
perform in daily life.

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