The power of witches in Macbeth Myths and religions often include divine or diabolical beings endowed with incredible powers. William Shakespeare incorporated witches with bizarre powers into his play, Macbeth. These witches possessed diabolical powers to set the course of events in the plot and add flavor to the story. The witches' powers included omninity, the creation of visions and apparitions, and the ability to create conditions for disaster, and the use of these abilities determines the movement of the work. As the story's opening characters, the witches establish the main theme of the story. tell and predict future events. After hinting at their intuition about the end of the war and revealing their relationship with demonic forces, the witches cry out: "Fair is foul, and foul is fair" (I, i, 12). In his first meeting with the Weird Sisters, Banquo questions the witches' powers and asks, "If you can look into the seeds of time and tell which will grow and which will not?" (I, iii, 65). The witches' prophecies persist in the story and reveal their accuracy, and Banquo notices this and comments to Macbeth: "Last night I dreamed of the three Strange Sisters. To you they have shown a part of the truth" (II, i, 25). The witches' prophecies place an underlying thought in the minds of Macbeth and Banquo and lurk there throughout their actions with an ever-present influence. Another influential power of the Weird Sisters was their ability to create visions and apparitions. At the beginning of Duncan's murder scene, Macbeth sees a bloody dagger and, in a phantasmagoric state, observes: "Thou hast shown me the way I was going, / And such an instrument I must use" (II, i, 51 ). Macbeth further states: "Witchcraft celebrates the offerings of Pale Hecate" (II, i, 60). Both of these statements may suggest a supernatural force in the story. Witches' powers also extend to summoning apparitions that predict future events. The three apparitions tell Macbeth: "Beware the lord of Fife" (IV, i, 81), "no man born of woman / will harm Macbeth" (IV, i, 91) and "Macbeth will never be defeated until / The great wood of Birnham to the high hill of Dunsinane / will come against him,” (IV, i, 106). These visions and apparitions, as seen later, have a profound effect on Macbeth's actions. The Weird Sisters' most significant power lies in their ability to create the conditions for disaster..