History Main / TheWeirdSisters

** The second sister, SCP-1765-2, has a scottish accent, and her experiment is forcing people through a deadly game in a stadium, where fireballs are hurled to the contestants, but when someone dies, they respawn and have to try again, if they reach the end, they are still killed by a giant hammers.

* ''Series/MotherlandFortSalem'' is set in a world where witches serve in a special branch of the United States Military. Upon arriving at basic they are grouped together in three-person units. They refer to the members of their units as sisters, the series follows the Bellweather Unit made up of Abigail, Raelle and Tally.

* ''Anime/LittleWitchAcademia'' takes this to dizzying heights. All the witches-in-training at the school are divided into 3-girl covens who do almost everything together.

->"''In effect, however, those three [Mothers] were sisters as well as mothers... just as there are three Muses, three Graces, three Fates, and three Furies.''"
-->--''Film/{{Inferno}}''

* ''Disney/TheBlackCauldron'': The witches of Morva, a trio of neutral witches who possess [[ArtifactOfDoom the titular artifact]].
* ''Disney/{{Hercules}}'': The three Fates visit Hades at the beginning of the movie and warn him about Hercules's destiny to defeat him should he attempt to start a coup on Olympus.
* ''Disney/SleepingBeauty'': The three good fairies Flora, Fauna and Merryweather attend princess Aurora's baptismal celebration to confer blessings on Aurora, and after take Aurora in their care in order to protect her from Maleficent's curse.

* ''Film/{{Maleficent}}'': In a perspective flip of Disney's ''Disney/SleepingBeauty'', princess Aurora is given into the care of the three female pixies Knotgrass, Flittle and Thistlewit, who however are rather incompetent at the task of raising and protecting their ward.

* Invoked in ''Literature/{{Dracula}}'', where Jonathan Harker in his journal refers to the three Brides of Dracula as "those weird sisters".

* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'': ''Discworld/WyrdSisters'' introduces the "coven" of the Lancre Witches, formed by Granny Weatherwax, Nanny Ogg and Magrat Garlick (from ''Discworld/{{Maskerade}}'' onwards replaced by Agnes Nitt). ''Wyrd Sisters'' explains why three witches are required for a coven: Two witches get on each other's nerves; the third one can get them to make up, so they can all get on the nerves of everyone else
* The villains in the ''Literature/DresdenFiles'' novel ''Literature/BloodRites'' are a trio of evil ex-wives attempting to use an EvilEye ritual curse to murder their ex-husband's possible suitors, to protect their alimonies. A magical ritual requires at least three participants to work properly, and Dresden notes that this is where the Weird Sisters "three witches cackling around a cauldron" stereotype comes from.
* The villains of ''Literature/WarrenTheThirteenth'' are three witches named Annaconda, Scalene, and Isosceles who plot to find the magical [[MacGuffin All-Seeing Eye]] and use it for their own wicked purposes.

* Sami Mythology: The three sisters Sáhráhkká, Uksáhkká and Juoksáhkka together govern childhood and in addition serve as goddesses for their separate areas of expertice. Uksáhkká (Door Goddess) governs and guards all entrances and exits. Juoksáhkká (Bow Goddess) decides that a child shall become a boy instead of a girl, and governs hunting and skiing. They are led by Sáhráhkká (the meaning of the word "Sáhr" is lost) who is the main goddess of birth, the protector of girl-children, and goddess of the hearth.

* Myth/SamiMythology: The three sisters Sáhráhkká, Uksáhkká and Juoksáhkka together govern childhood and in addition serve as goddesses for their separate areas of expertice. Uksáhkká (Door Goddess) governs and guards all entrances and exits. Juoksáhkká (Bow Goddess) decides that a child shall become a boy instead of a girl, and governs hunting and skiing. They are led by Sáhráhkká (the meaning of the word "Sáhr" is lost) who is the main goddess of birth, the protector of girl-children, and goddess of the hearth.

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* In the Creator/VertigoComics joint universe, the Three are the powerful women goddesses of various aspects of reality, and have many incarnations, including as the Moirae, goddesses of fate, and the Furies, goddesses of revenge. They appear often in the ''ComicBook/TheSandman'', in which Dream often consults with them when he is in doubt, and [[spoiler: they eventually kill him in their aspect of the Furies]].

* ''Anime/{{Texhnolyze}}'' has [[TheDividual three mothers of Kano]]. There are no explanations about their nature in the anime, but their look and behavior are havily inspired by Moirai. Surreal character of the anime and multiple links to Myth/{{Classical Mythology}} don't help.

* ''WesternAnimation/WinxClub'' has the recurring villainesses the Trix coven, made up of three witch sisters, (though it's unknown whether or not they're really sisters) Icy, Darcy, and Stormy. There are also their ancestors, the First Witches of the Magic Dimension, the Ancestral Witches Belladonna, Lyslis and Tharma.

* ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'' combines two witches from the book into one - so there are now three instead of four.

** The Odd Sisters are the main antagonists of the series and appear in every book. They're involved with numerous wrongdoings in the Disney 'verse. They're a trio of identical triplets who are distant cousins of Snow White's father.

* ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfPrydain'': Orwen, Orddu, and Orgoch, three sisters who live in the Marshes of Morva, are hundreds of years old and masters of black magic. All of them appear as young beauties at night and old crones in daylight. Each of them has their distinct personality, but oddly they also seem to take turns at being each sister and are able to swap their identities between them. When Taran visits them in ''The Black Cauldron'', they are just weaving a magical tapestry.

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* ''Film/TheCraft'' has Nancy, Bonnie and Rochelle who - although searching for a fourth witch to create a FourElementEnsemble - are still separate from Sarah. [[spoiler: They become the film's antagonists in the third act]].

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* ''Series/{{Charmed|1998}}'':

* ''Series/AreYouAfraidOfTheDark'': "The Tale of Watcher's Woods" features a trio of {{Wicked Witch}}es haunting the titular woods.
* ''Series/TheWorstWitch'': In the TV series Agatha Cackle (who had loads of accomplices in the book) is given two partners in Betty Bindweed and Millicent Coldstone.
* ''Series/DoctorWho'': In episode "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E2TheShakespeareCode "The Shakespeare Code"]], there is a trio of witches consisting of one maiden and two crones. They are a ShoutOut to ''Macbeth''.
* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' had one of the Fates show up. With a minor research flub, the one that showed up was Atropos, and she claimed that "her two sisters are bigger and badder than [Atropos] in every way."
* ''Series/OnceUponATime'':
** Season 4 features Ursula, Maleficent and Cruella De Ville teaming up to form the Queens of Darkness.
** The Snow Queen arc involves a spell that requires three participants to represent Ingrid's sisters. Ingrid enchants Emma and Elsa to be immune to the Shattered Sight's effects.
* Winnie in ''Series/FreeSpirit'' is the central of three witch sisters. Only one of them appears in the show though; the major one Cassandra.
* ''Series/WitchesOfEastEnd'' (book and TV show) revolves around a family of witches constituted by Joanna Beauchamp and her two grown-up daughters Ingrid and Freya. The show introduces a fourth witch, Wendy Beauchamp, who is Joanna's estranged sister.

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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'': The Weird Sisters, apparently the actual ones from ''Macbeth'', are shown as inhabitants and guardians of the enchanted island of Avalon. They all take the same form at the same time, [[AppearanceIsInTheEyeOfTheBeholder but different people see them differently]]: Depending on who they are speaking to at the time, they may look like a trio of creepy little girls, old crones, aged female gargoyles, or voluptuous young 20-somethings. The latter is their preferred form and the one the audience usually sees.
* ''WesternAnimation/WinxClub'' has the recurring villainesses the Trix coven, made up of three witch sisters, (though it's unknown whether or not they're really sisters) Icy, Darcy, and Stormy. There are also their ancestors, the First Witches of the Magic Dimension, the Ancestral Witches Belladonna, Lyslis and Tharma.

In the ''Macbeth'' print of 1623, the three witches are referred to as "weyward" respectively "weyard Sisters". This is variously rendered as "wayward" or "weird" by modern editions, and suggests that Shakespeare's contemporaries were uncertain about the meaning and spelling of the phrase. In reality, "weird" is a Scots derivation from Old English ''wyrd'', which means "fate". As the word was not widely known then, it were the very "Weird Sisters" of Holinshed and Shakespeare that led to the word being re-interpreted as "uncanny", "supernatural". This was the primary meaning of "weird" until relatively recently.

* ''Series/{{Charmed}}'':

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* ''WesternAnimation/WinxClub'' has the recurring villainesses the Trix coven, made up of three witch sisters, (though it's unknown whether or not they're really sisters) Icy, Darcy, and Stormy.
There are also their Ancestors the Ancestral Witches Belladonna Lyslis and Tharma
The First Witches of the Magic Dimension

* ''Series/{{Charmed}}'': The Charmed Ones are a group of three sisters (or half-sisters), Piper, Prue and Phoebe, who are the most powerful witches of their day. While there are actually four of them, only three are ever the Charmed Ones at any given time. [[spoiler: Paige was brought in after Prue's death]].

* ''Series/TheWorstWitch'': In the HalloweenEpisode of the TV series, Mildred runs into a trio of true {{Wicked Witch}}es.

* ''Series/OnceUponATime'' Season 4 features Ursula, Maleficent and Cruella De Ville teaming up to form the Queens of Darkness.

* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': The Diamonds are supernatural Gem rulers that go by female pronouns. They're technically a quartet, but are usually shown in one trio that excludes White Diamond (in terms of interpersonal dynamics) or another that excludes Pink Diamond (in terms of Homeworld's current rulership)

* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': The Diamonds are a quartet of supernatural Gem rulers that go by female pronouns.