GLOSSARY / VOCABULARY LIST

ALARUM -Trumpet call

AUGURS - Prophesies

BELLONA - Goddess of War

BENISON - Blessing

CHARNEL HOUSES - Bone-storage vaults

EQUIVOCATOR - Liar

GOLGOTHA - Place of the Skull, in Hebrew; the hill near Jerusalem where Christ was crucified, hence a place of torture or martyrdom

GORGON - A mythical female monster who was so hideous that anyone who looked at her turned to stone

GRAYMALKIN - A witch's familiar (a gray cat)

HECATE - Goddess of Sorcery

SECOND COCK - About three in the morning

SENNET - Trumpet call

TARQUIN - Roman Tyrant who raped Lucrece

THANES - Scottish noblemen

WASSAIL - Carousing

WEIRD SISTERS - Wyrd, Old English for "fate"; possibly the three Fates, or Destinies

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