Macbeth considers ‘this supernatural soliciting’. Ross and Angus arrive to tell Macbeth that he has been given the title Thane of Cawdor by Duncan to thank him for his valiant efforts in the battle. Macbeth demands to know how their prediction about him can be true when the Thane of Cawdor is still alive but the witches vanish. They predict that his children will be 'kings, though thou be none’. The witches hail Macbeth firstly by his title Thane of Glamis, then as Thane of Cawdor and finally as ‘king hereafter!’ Banquo says there is no need to ‘fear things that sound so fair’, and asks the witches for his future. The men encounter the witches ‘that look not like th’inhabitants o’th’earth’. They hear Macbeth and Banquo approaching and cast a spell. Another has been insulted by a sailor’s wife so they plot to cast a spell which will disrupt the sailor’s next sea journey to Aleppo.
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