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The quote is said by one of the weird sisters in the play Macbeth as they brew up evil spirits and invite Hecate to attend, in anticipation of Macbeth's desperate arrival to hear his fate from them. Macbeth finds the weird sisters in a cave and he immediately sees that they are doing something unearthly and greets them with "How now you black and secret midnight hags?". Means > I greet you, what are you doing evil women?

One of the weird sisters replies to him, " ...a deed without a name".

This means that they are meddling with unearthly spirits and evil of the most unearthly kind. A deed (act) which is SO evil that it has no words or earthly definition to describe it. It is beyond evil, beyond earthly good and evil. It is evil and madness beyond any human comprehension and even beyond words or description. A deed without a name.

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