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what childs story has the witches who say"boil toil and trouble"?

It's a story that has witches in it, and they are standing around a cauldron making some kind of potion at which point they say the spell that reads "boil toil and trouble"

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  • 1 decade ago
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    It's in Macbeth:

    "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 caldron bubble.

    2 WITCH. Fillet of a fenny snake,

    In the caldron 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 owlet's wing,—

    For a charm of powerful trouble,

    Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.

    ALL. Double, double toil and trouble;

    Fire burn, and caldron bubble.

    3 WITCH. Scale of dragon; tooth of wolf;

    Witches' 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-strangled babe

    Ditch-deliver'd by a drab,—

    Make the gruel thick and slab:

    Add thereto a tiger's chaudron,

    For the ingrediants of our caldron.

    ALL. Double, double toil and trouble;

    Fire burn, and caldron bubble.

    2 WITCH. Cool it with a baboon's blood,

    Then the charm is firm and good.

  • 1 decade ago

    It's Macbeth, by William Shakespeare, not a children's story. And what they actually say isn't 'boil toil and trouble', it's:

    "Double, double, toil and trouble

    Fire burn and cauldron bubble"

  • 1 decade ago

    "Double, double, toil and trouble,

    Fire burn and cauldron bubble."

    --Macbeth, Act IV, Scene i.

    Also used in Disney's Ducktales:

    "Bubble bubble" was popularized in the hit Disney cartoon "DuckTales" - "Much Ado About Scrooge." The witches on the island chanted "Bubble, bubble, toil and trouble. Leave this island on the double." Here the words from the Macbeth rhyming scheme are reversed.

  • ?
    Lv 4
    1 decade ago

    It is in Macbeth, by Shakespeare. Hardly a children's story.

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  • 1 decade ago

    i know it was in macbeth but i think it may have been in witches by roald dahl but could be wrong been a real long time since i read his books

  • Randy
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago

    It's from Shakespeare's "Macbeth"

  • 1 decade ago

    Macbeth i think

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