The darkness of the witches' prophecies is the motive for the killing of King Duncan and the hysteria within Macbeth's life and Scotland.
The witches are seen as speakers of the devil with the characteristics of both women and demons. Two sinister sets of prophecies and six peculiar predictions that lead into a bloody battle of life and death. Just like the Three Musketeers, the Weird Sisters are always together and without each other they are unstable. They have skin like the bark of a broken down tree, and their lady-like features are rather faint. The demonic lady features of the Weird Sisters rather confuse Banquo and Macbeth because "You should be women/And yet your beards forbid me to interpret/ That you are so " ( I.iii.45-47). This expression intends to convey that women with beards are witches, in which is a referring to a folklore from a long time ago. The Weird Sisters fiddle with the fate of their victims leading them to do devilish acts of terror causing the viewer or reader of the play to imagine the outcome of the tragedy like many have before,"It is the most phantasmagoric of the tragedies, locating its reality upon the very edge of the border between the human and supernatural "(Bell 13). The witches, of course, know that the prophecies given to Macbeth would get to his head causing him not to have a sense of reality. The witches even though are considered evil and supernatural, warns Macbeth numerous times that he needs to stop and think about the future ahead. The Weird Sisters were only there to plant the seeds of ambition and Lady Macbeth is the one who waters the ideas to make them become reality at her own risk. The devilish witches know how to play with people's emotions just for the sake of their own entertainment just like what will become of the sailor's wife if she does not watch her back as the witches brew up a wicked countercharm " But in a sieve I'll thither a sail, And like a rat without a tail, I'll do, I'll do, I'll do " (I.
