Three Witches’ Profiles

 

Here are the Three Witches in my story:

 

Hecate

 

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

 

Circe

 

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.