INCANTATION

(noun)- a chant; a recited magical spell syn: invocation adj: NA
 * ‍ INCANTATION ‍**

Tituba is accused of witchcraft after Abigail claims that she performed an //incanation// to summon the Devil.

This is part of the incantation recited by the three witches in //Macbeth,// which we read last year: //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.// //Double, double toil and trouble;// //Fire burn, and caldron bubble.// //Cool it with a baboon’s blood,// //Then the charm is firm and good.//

/emma k