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Their dialogue in Act 1 Scene 2 suggests that they have powers beyond merely foretelling. The first witch has been insulted by the woman eating chestnuts. She proposes that she will revenge herself on the woman's husband, a sailor ("master of the Tiger"--Tiger is the name of his ship). She says, "Though his bark cannot be lost, yet it shall be tempest-tost" which suggests that they can create winds and make the boat leaky and keep him from sleeping but that their powers do not go so far as to kill him--"his bark (ship) cannot be lost"

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