After Giancarlo Stanton hit a home run 485 feet on April 2, Yankees manager Aaron Boone walked up to the slugger in the dugout and said, “You’re weird.” He meant it in the nicest way, better than how Shakespeare used the word.
Shakespeare drew upon mythology and the Old English word for fate (wyrd) to create the “weyward Sisters” of Macbeth. Subsequent editions of the play changed the adjective to “weird,” which is how the Three Witches also became known as The Weird Sisters and how “weird,” because of their strange appearance, came to mean “odd” or “uncanny.”
“Fair is foul, and foul is fair,” the Weird Sisters chant in Act I, preparing you for the moral confusion to come.
