Here are
the Three Witches in my story:
Name |
Hecate |
Appearance |
Blue curving hair that falls to her shoulders with blue eyes |
Custom |
Blue bikinis with short see through skirts |
Identity |
The eldest sister |
Attack |
Poison River |
Medea
Name |
Medea |
Appearance |
Green straight hair that falls to her shoulders with green eyes |
Custom |
Green bikinis with short see through skirts |
Identity |
The middle sister |
Attack |
Virus Stream |
Name |
Circe |
Appearance |
Red short hair and red eyes |
Custom |
Red bikinis with short see through skirts |
Identity |
The youngest sister |
Attack |
Blood Surge |
Here is
the Greek myth of three witches:
Hecate is
the Goddess of the Dark of the Moon, the nights that there is no moon and the
world above is as dark as the world below. She was the overseer of the world of
the dead and was associated with magic and witches and also said to have the
power to bestow on or withhold from mortals any gifts she chose. She mixed
fertility with death to be used as earth power. During the daytime, she had
somewhat of an influence over farming, but at night her interests were in
witchcraft and ghosts. Witches and sorceresses, such as Medea, invoked her in
their magic arts. Usually portrayed with three faces, she is the Goddess of
Crossways. This is where the Greeks left their offerings monthly, at the
crossways where three roads met. Because of her connection to the underworld,
Hecate is often portrayed as having similar traits as those of Persephone. She
offered to make sure that Zeus' ruling was obeyed when it was decided that
Persephone's time would be divided between her mother and Hades. Like Hades and
Persephone, King and Queen of the Dead, Hecate was never allowed to sit as a
member on the council of Olympians.
Medea,
whose name means "the cunning one", was the daughter of the king of
Colchis. She was a ruthless sorceress who was something between a witch and a
goddess. She was the first wife of Jason who came to Colchis to retrieve the
Golden Fleece. It was actually Aphrodite and Eros who caused Medea to fall in
love with him, as they knew, without her help, he would be unable to perform
the tasks her father insisted of him. She did use her magic to aid him in his
tasks, and then returned on the Argo with him to Iolcus.
On the
way back, with her father's ships in hot pursuit, she cut her half-brother into
pieces and threw them into the sea knowing that her father would stop to
retrieve them. Iolcus was, at that time, ruled by King Pelias, and Medea
tricked his daughters into boiling him, which resulted in his death. Because of
this, both Jason and Medea were banished.
Jason
went on to take a second wife named Glauce, which really ticked Medea off, and
she saw to it that Glauce was given a poisoned wedding dress, which burned her
skin and killed her. Then she went a little further and killed her own children
by Jason. She then escaped to Athens in her grandfather, Helios', chariot and
married King Aegeus.
This was
before Aegeus knew that Theseus was his son, and when he one day showed up in
his court, Medea tried to put doubts in her husband's mind that Theseus was not
his heir because she wanted her own son by Aegeus to succeed him. But, when
Aegeus finally realized that Theseus was indeed his son, Medea fled with her son
and returned to become ruler of Colchis.
Circe is the daughter of Helios, the Sun God, and Perse. She was a powerful witch who had no love for mortals. Initially, she was married to a king and poisoned him in hopes of taking over the kingdom. But, she was banished from the city and went to live on the Island of Dawn, Aeaea. She is best known from The Odyssey where she turned Odysseus' men into animals with a magic potion. Of course, the gods helped Odysseus, and Hermes was sent to give him an herb that would make him immune to Circe's magic. She eventually agreed to turn his men back, but only on the condition that Odysseus sleep with her. Then she warned him of the perils in the next part of his journey. Odysseus and Penelope's son, Telemachus, is said to have married her.
You can see that I just picked the names for the story only. I didn't follow the myth about the names actually. Three Witches are not sisters and even have no relationship at all in myth. However, they are sisters in my story.