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Who are the witches talking about when they say something pricked your thumbs someone wicked this way comes?
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The witches say, "By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes."
In many depictions of witchcraft, blood must be spilled in order to activate a spell. Magic users in fiction will often prick their fingers in order to draw blood for a sacred ritual. The witches in Macbeth are planning a great mischief, and they draw "something wicked" to them through their spells, hence the pricking of their fingers. Macbeth himself becomes this "something wicked."
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