Welcome to Macbeth and Folklore. This Website will not only dive into witches and ghost, but the superstition that plagued shakespeare's time and how he used it in his work, Macbeth.
Folklore covers a multitude of field such as witches, fairies, ghosts, magic totem, and folk-plays. Anyone brought up in Stratford-upon-Avon in the middle of the sixteenth century would come in contact with a wide variety of superstitions. Folklore was commonly used in literature and Entertainment such as plays which took great uses to folklore as it was known to be understood by all (Muir, Kenneth). This site will focus upon the two supernatural elements of Macbeth: Ghosts and Witches.