What is the witch potion in Macbeth's act 4?

Answer 1

Treating it like a recipe:

Instructions:

• This is a fun recipe but requires a team effort. Get some friends to help you
• You will require one large pot over an open fire

1. Go around the cauldron widershins (anti-clockwise). Add:

• Poison'd entrails
• 31 days worth of Toad venom

2. Boil in pot. Then add:

• Fillet of a swamp snake (allow to bake in pot)
• Eye of newt
• Toe of frog
• Wool of bat
• Tongue of dog,
• Adder's fork
• Blind-worm's sting,
• Lizard's leg
• A young owl's wing,

3. Allow to boil for a while, then add:

• Scale of dragon
• Tooth of wolf
• One entire Witches' mummy.
• Stomach and throat of one starved sea shark
• Root of hemlock (must be harvested at night)
• Liver of blaspheming Jew
• Gall of goat
• Yew twigs (Must be cut during the eclipse of the moon).
• Nose of Turk
• Tartar's lips
• Finger of baby killed at birth (Must be child of a prostitute and born in a ditch)
• Small amount of tiger's intestines

4. Allow to cook until thick

5. Add baboon's blood to cool mixture and thicken it further.

Answer 2

Toad that has been thirty-one days and nights under a cold stone,

Fillet of a fenny snake

Eye of newt and toe of frog,

Wool of bat and tongue of dog

Adder's fork and blindworm's sting

Lizard's leg and owlet's wing,

Scale of dragon, tooth of wolf,

Witches mummy, shark's mouth,

Hemlock root (harvested at night)

Gall of goat and slips of yew (harvested during a lunar eclipse)

Turk's nose, Tartar's lips, Jew's liver

Tiger guts, Baboon's blood

Finger of a baby strangled after being born in a ditch by her prostitute mother

Answer 3

The following is the list of ingredients in the witches' potion in the play "Macbeth" by William Shakespeare (baptized April 26, 1564 - April 23, 1616):

1. Blood from a baboon;

2. Eye of newt;

3. Finger from a baby strangled at birth;

4. Gall of a goat;

5. Hair of a bat;

6. Leg of a lizard;

7. Lips of a Tartar person;

8. Liver of a Jewish person;

9. Mouth and stomach of a shark;

10. Mummy of a witch;

11. Nose of a Turkish person;

12. Root of a hemlock;

13. Scale of a dragon;

14. Snake in a narrow strip;

15. Stinger of a slow worm;

16. Toad;

17. Toe of a frog;

18. Tongue of an adder;

19. Tongue of a dog;

20. Tooth of a wolf;

21. Twigs from a yew;

22. Wing of a small owl.

Specifically, the ingredients to the potion are given in Act IV Scene I. The ingredients are accumulated by the three witches. They are intended to cause "toil and trouble."

Answer 4

In Act 4 of Macbeth, the witches create a potion by throwing various ingredients into a cauldron, including a fillet of a fenny snake, a newt's eye, toe of frog, wool of bat, and tongue of dog. The purpose of this potion is to conjure apparitions that provide Macbeth with further prophecies and advice.

Answer 5

the witches are in a dark cavern stirring up a cauldron of rat tail and dog, etc. then Macbeth finds them.