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In the Shakespearean play 'Macbeth', the three witches filled the cauldron with ingredients. The fixings were meant to conjure up apparitions to give Macbeth [d. August 15, 1057] a false sense of security. Macbeth thereby was warned to beware of Macduff, the movement of Birnam Wood to Dunsinane Castle, and no man born of woman. Two out of three seemed impossibilities to him. He never sought practical meanings for these outlandish warnings other than to have Macduff's entire family and household killed. From the cauldron, a fourth apparition was conjured. That apparition confirmed Macbeth's fear that Banquo's family line indeed would take over the throne of Scotland. It led him to ever more bloodied, oppressive, repressive, suppressive rule against the arising of any opposition.

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Q: What was the significance of a cauldron to the play 'Macbeth'?
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