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Celt, Roman, and Saxon,
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They are sometimes regarded as the three Fates--the _norni_ of the north, the _wæleyrian_ of the Anglo-Saxons (the weird sisters, transformed in Shakspere into three witches) disposing of the fates of individuals, and dealing out life and death. But they are also found distributing rewards and punishments, giving wealth and property, and conferring fruitfulness. They are the three fairies who are often introduced in the fairy legends of a later period, with these same characteristics.
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of mediæval witchcraft may be traced to an Aryan origin. The chief of these, the cauldron, is familiar to all from Shakspere's admirable pictures in Macbeth. I have previously referred to the fact that the phrase
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is derived from this source. Cauldron stories are common amongst ancient tribes. Guy of Warwick's
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is of this class. Kelly says, speaking of the
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If the Bhrigus or their associates were brewers they must needs have had brewing utensils; at the very least they must have had a brewing pot; and therefore we are justified in referring back the origin of the witches' cauldron to the remotest antiquity. Perhaps the oldest example of such a vessel of which there is any distinct record is the cauldron which Thor carried off from the giant Hymir, to brew drink for the gods at Oegir's harvest feast. It was five miles deep, and modern expounders of the Eddic myths are of opinion that it was the vaulted sky.
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so much vaunted, was neither more nor less than rain water,
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Superstitions of Old Cornwall, describes the _modus operandi_ of a celebrated witch at Fraddam, when engaged in brewing a liquor of
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which clearly exhibits the
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that lies at the base of these superstitions. She