Lørdagsgodis 28, toil and trouble

Double, double, toil and trouble! Tre heksescener fra Shakespear's Macbeth: Åpningsscenen fra Orson Wells' film fra 1948, fra Polanskis fra 1971 og fra en Tv-innspilling med Nicol Williamson fra 1983. Veldig forskjellige. Tror kanskje jeg liker den første best, det vidunderlige språket!

Bildet er fra tittelbladet til Ulricus Molitoris verk "De Lamiis et phitonicis mulieribus" fra ca. 1498, en konkurrent til Kramer og Sprengers berømte håndbok i hekseforfølgelse fra 1487 "Malleus Maleficarum" - Heksehammeren. Og for ordens skyld, teksten fra 1. scene, 4. akt:

"FIRST WITCH.
Round about the cauldron 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 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 blind-worm'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 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-strangl'd babe
Ditch-deliver'd by a drab,--
Make the gruel thick and slab:
Add thereto a tiger's chaudron,
For the ingredients of our cauldron.

ALL.
Double, double, toil and trouble;
Fire, burn; and cauldron, bubble."

GOD HELG!