Petunia/Headmaster/LVatHogwarts/Mobiliarbus/GH/Lupin=Tutor?/Magic Quill/

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 158475

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Eddie" <harryp at ...> wrote:
>
> > zanooda:
> > To answer your question, Shakespeare doesn't give any names AFAIK. One
> > of the witches calls another something like "Graymalkin", but I don't
> > think it's a name. I just remembered it because it sounded funny to me.
> > ===========================================
> 
> > Shakespeare wrote:
> > Script / Text of Act I Macbeth
> > 
> > ACT I
> > SCENE I. A desert place.
> > 
> > Thunder and lightning. Enter three Witches 
> > First Witch 
> > When shall we three meet again
> > In thunder, lightning, or in rain?
> > 
> > Second Witch 
> > When the hurlyburly's done,
> > When the battle's lost and won.
> > 
> > Third Witch 
> > That will be ere the set of sun.
> > 
> > First Witch 
> > Where the place?
> > 
> > Second Witch 
> > Upon the heath.
> > 
> > Third Witch 
> > There to meet with Macbeth.
> > 
> > First Witch 
> > I come, Graymalkin!
> > 
> > Second Witch 
> > Paddock calls.
> > 
> > Third Witch 
> > Anon.
> > 
> > ALL 
> > Fair is foul, and foul is fair:
> > Hover through the fog and filthy air.
> > 
> > Exeunt
> 
> Eddie:
> The witches are not named.  Graymalkin and Paddock appear to be
> offstage characters whom Witch 1 and 2, respectively, hear call to them.
> 
> Eddie


Geoff:
I made this point in message 158422 which I posted yesterday.

The relevant piece was:
"In message 113732 dated 24/09/04, which was part of a thread
to do with Trevor the toad, I wrote the following:

<quote>
> Potioncat:
> Were there 3 witches? What was the third familiar? Does anyone
> else think it's interesting that there is a toad, and a cat in this
story too?

Geoff:
Indeed there were three witches. 

<snip>

My point was that, in the notes to my edition of the play, it
suggests that Graymalkin was a common cat's name and implied
that Paddock was use another name for a toad.
</quote>"

The only named supernatural person in the play is Hecat who 
enters to support the three witches in Act 4 Acene 1 where Macbeth 
receives the prophecy from the three apparitions.