Something wicked this way comes

For many years I have used the Lord’s Prayer (The Our Father) to prompt my morning prayers. This morning when I came to “deliver us from evil” (which can legitimately be rendered “the evil one” legitimately referring to either the devil or an evil human person), I sensed echoes of these lines from Macbeth Act IV Scene I.

 

By the pricking of my thumbs,

Something wicked this way comes.

            Open locks,

            Whoever knocks!

 

Then Macbeth enters.

 

I am not going to attach any particular meaning to this other than the odd workings of my mind.