Paddock calls. ( 1.1.11) i.e., a toad. During the Renaissance it was believed that Satan sent witches malicious spirits to help them carry out their evil deeds.

Tragedy set out to stir up feelings of fear and pity in the audience – this is known as catharsis. All of these things can be seen at work in Macbeth. Macbeth is basically a good man who goes wrong. He is driven by a need for power which eventually sets him on a path to his own destruction.

‘Double double toil and trouble/Fire burn and cauldron bubble’ is a rhyming couplet from Shakespeare’s play, Macbeth, chanted by the supernatural three witches. The witches represent pure evil. They are not real characters, and, indeed, they can be seen simply as the voice of temptation in the mind of Macbeth.

Shakespeare’s “graymalkin” literally means “gray cat.” The “gray” is of course the color; the “malkin” was a nickname for Matilda or Maud that came to be used in dialect as a general name for a cat (and sometimes a hare). By the 1630s, “graymalkin” had been altered to the modern spelling “grimalkin.”

Graymalkin are Paddock are commonly believed to be witch’s familiars or evil spirits in animal form which assist the first witch and the second witch. The unnamed familiar is thought by some to be an owl (IV. 1).

A familiar is a spirit or demonic attendant in the service of a witch, magician or sorcerer. The three witches in Macbeth had their familiars, a gray cat, a toad and the third isn’t known.

hurly-burly: commotion, uproar. “When the hurly-burly’s done, when the battle’s lost and won.” Second Witch 1.1.3. When this commotion of war is over and we know who has won and lost.