Three Witches Doing Magic Poem by Margaret Alice

We, Hermien, Hanlie and I, are the Three Witches
of Lancre* – helping Jane, our new magical colleague
master the witchcraft of driving computers at full speed,
making tables, using dictionaries electronically

Discovering more about Collins-on-line, teaching her about
the wizardly G-drive - we three witches of Lancre – I mean
DAC, Department of Arts and Culture - we three witches
know enough to help a new language magician in FLEAS -

- Foreign Languages, English and Afrikaans Section - how to
mount the Internet traveling broom and fly between sites; though
she keeps to well-worn ways leading between dictionaries,
grammar and language; while I veer off in any direction

That catches my eye, Slaughter Engineering and Lyra’s
humanoids, where reptilian hybrids adorn the stars
in the sky – maybe I’m the only language practitioner
who actually dabble with the demons in hell…

Terry Pratchett “Wyrd Sisters” – three characters,
Nanny Weatherwax, Granny Ogg and Magrat