The Three Witches description. The Three Witches. Macbeth Macbeth (mak-BEHTH), thane of Glamis, later thane of Cawdor and king of Scotland.
A brave and successful military leader, and potentially a good and great man, he wins general admiration as well as the particular gratitude of King Duncan, his kinsman. Meeting the Three Weird Sisters, he succumbs to their tempting prophecies, but he also needs the urging of his wife to become a traitor, a murderer, and a usurper. He is gifted, or cursed, with a powerful and vivid imagination and with fiery, poetic language.
Gaining power, he grows more ruthless, until finally he loses even the vestiges of humanity. Three witches.