Summon The Fiend
[Verses by W. Shakespeare âThe Tragedy Of Macbethâ; music by Eugen]
Three warlocks and nine witches have gathered for the summoning of Devil in the tenebrious
glade within Nebelforst on Sabbath. Bodeful thunderous Night. The warlocks boil the loathsome
ointment in the silvern cauldron, tapestried with pelt and glyph-scored with druidsâ hierograms.
They troll incantations and stir the potion at the same time.
The rite of Invocation begins!
[First warlock:] Thrice the branded cat hath mewâd.
[Second warlock:] Thrice, and once the hedge-pig whinâd.
[Third warlock:] Harpier cries, âtis time, âtis time.
[First warlock (whose patrimonial name â noble Morphiy):]
Round âbout the cauldron go
In the poisonâd entrails throw.
Toad, that under frosty stone,
Days and nights, has thirty one
Swelterâd venom sleeping got,
Boil thou first iâ thâ charmed pot... with rot!
[Chant of witches:]
Double, double, toil and trouble
Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.
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
Adderâs fork, and blind-wormâs sting,
Lizardâs leg, and howletâs wing
For a charm of powerful trouble,
Like a hell-broth, boil and bubble.
[Chant of witches:]
Double, double, toil and trouble
Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.
[Second warlock (bemoaned after death without name):]
Scale of dragon, tooth of wolf,
Witchâs mummy, maw, and gulf
Of the ravinâd salt-sea shark
Root of hemlock, diggâd iâ thâ dark
Liver of blaspheming jew,
Gall of goat, and slips of yew,
Sliverâd in the moonâs eclipse
Nose of Turk, and Tartarâs lips
Finger of birth-strangled babe,
Ditch-deliverâd by a drab,
Make the gruel thick, and slab.
Add thereto a tigerâs chaudron,
For thâ ingredients of our cauldron.
[Third warlock (initiate in air host of Merezin):]
Cool it with a baboonâs blood,
Then the charm is firm and good.
First warlock: By the pricking of my thumbs,
Something wicked this way comes
Open locks, whoever knocks.
In lieu of any fiend from netherworld Sabbat evoked by incantations and hellbroth-irrigation the mighty spirit of the dead gothic king Germanareh. Weening that itâs someone of arch-fiends, the witches were improvising the ritual dance around the dazed ghost. The supreme warlock frowned ordinees into doing the kiss of shame. The Kingâs spirit set to improve by the puissant spellcraft of that coven. When his besotted tendance had finished this darksome solemnization of demonolatry Germanareh bid them to summon acolytes for him â âthe spirits of those mountsâ as he titled them. He cerebrated that while the warlocks were summoning the pucks as they bethought they would revive the departed gothic warriors, which inearthed upon that tumulus too. Theyâll resurge and minister their almighty sovereign anew.
[Phoenixed Spirit of Germanareh:]
O well done, I commend your pains,
And every one shall in the gains
And now about the cauldron sing
Like elves and fairies in a ring,
Enchanting all that you put in
I am King!