weird sister

Meanings

nounweird sister (plural weird sisters)

poeticA female witch.
It was some such feeling as this which led Michael to visit a weird sister known as the Witch of Falsehope.
1863, Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, volume 59, page 289

noun(Norse mythology) any of the three goddesses of destiny; identified with Anglo-Saxon Wyrd; similar to Greek Moirae and Roman Parcae

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Norse deity

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