The duo settled on a name inspired by the witches in Shakespeare's tragedy "Macbeth," and got to work as The Weird Sisters. The Weird Sisters' first record was a psychedelic rock-leaning album ...

Enticing Macbeth with misleading prophecies, they truly are the fate sisters. But they are also weird stylistically in the modern sense — women with beards who appear unexpectedly and ...

However on a desolate heath on the way to King Duncan's camp they come across three strange creatures - the 'Weird Sisters', or Witches. The Sisters seem to know exactly who Macbeth and Banquo are.