Wyrd Sisters
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- This article is about the novel. There is also a band called the Wyrd Sisters.
| Terry Pratchett The Discworld series 6th novel – 2nd Witches story  | |
| Outline | |
| Characters: | Granny Weatherwax Nanny Ogg Magrat Garlick |
| Locations: | Lancre |
| Motifs: | Shakespeare, especially Macbeth and Hamlet |
| Publication details | |
| Year of release: | 1988 |
| Original publisher: | Victor Gollancz |
| Hardback ISBN: | ISBN 0575043636 |
| Paperback ISBN: | ISBN 0552134600 |
| Other details | |
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| Notes: | Came 135th in the Big Read. One of two books made into an animated film. Adapted as a play by Stephen Briggs. |
Essentially a parody of calque of Macbeth, Wyrd Sisters features three witches: Granny Weatherwax; Nanny Ogg, monarch of a large tribe of Oggs, who owns the most evil cat in the world, (Greebo); and Magrat Garlick, the junior witch, who firmly believes in occult jewellery, even though none of it works.
King Verence I of Lancre is murdered by his cousin, Duke Felmet, and the King's son is given by an escaping servant to the three witches. The witches hand the child to a troupe of traveling actors, acknowledging that destiny will eventually take its course and Tomjon will grow up to defeat Duke Felmet.
There have been an animated version and a 4-part BBC Radio 4 dramatisation, as well as a play by Stephen Briggs.
Translations
- Посестрими в занаята (Bulgarian)
- Soudné sestry (Czech)
- De Plaagzusters (Dutch)
- Õed Nõiduses (Estonian)
- Noitasiskokset (Finnish)
- Trois Sœurcières (French)
- MacBest (German)
- Οι Στρίγκλες (Greek)
- Vészbanyák (Hungarian)
- Örlagasystur (Icelandic)
- Sorellanza stregonesca (Italian)
- Sære søstre (Norwegian)
- Trzy Wiedźmy (Polish)
- As Três Bruxas (Portuguese)
- Estranhas Irmãs (Portuguese - Brazil)
- Вещие сестрички (Russian)
- Sestre po metli (Serbian)
- Brujerías (Spanish)
- Häxkonster (Swedish)
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