But Ceres shook her head, and hastened away, along with Hecate.
Hecate appears as a gigantic woman, bearing a torch and a sword.
Call her Hecate, and she will bear any disguise, however fanciful.
She pines with the weight of the curse of Hecate, and asks thy intercession.'
Saronia had been powerless to help, and dared not question the vengeance of Hecate.
And I, by my power, tried by Hecate to draw him forth, but I could not.'
Hecate was a goddess of hell to whom offerings of food were made.
Even so is the might of Hecate; in one hand she hath a blessing, in the other a curse.
It was consecrated to Hecate, and the Fates wore chaplets of its leaves.
Now, what in the name of Hecate and all the witches, does this mean?
early 15c., Greek deity, daughter of Perseus and Asteria (said to be originally Thracian), later identified as an aspect of Artemis, fem. of hekatos "far-shooting." Associated since Shakespeare ("I Henry VI," III.ii.64) with witches and sorcery.
