Witches Gather

"It is my ultimate tribute to all the free women fallen under the hammer of human ignorance. Most of us

link witches to the classic image aroused by literature and later on by cinematography (like in

W.Shakespeare's Macbeth for example): of ugly old women in league with the devil, who make evil potions,

eat babies and God knows what else. In truth they were all just normal individuals who dared to think

differently or tried to set themselves free from the binds of moral or religious narrow-minded thinking,

or were simply in the wrong place at the wrong time. This is for all of them, may their souls rest in

peace."

Incubus, Succubus

Quaestio de Strigibus

- QUAESTIO PRIMA -

Wandering back, back in time oh what have you learnt?

Of all the blood that was spilled, of all the witches burnt

Filth and greed, vicious deeds, the holy rise and fall

Killing in the name of the one who died for you all

Centuries, centuries the wait has been so long

Now you would expect intolerance to be gone

Still the one who yearn for a sigh of relief to come

Are seen as outcast sinners, blasphemous unholy scum

Thirteen souls, the witches of the coven

Hiding in the shadows of the night

Blessed be their wombs, without which we would not be

Born in freedom, bred to heal the world

- QUAESTIO SECUNDA -

Set to burn at the stake. The heartless witches' bane

Sisters of free spirit, cursed to die in vain

Hammer crushed, blood gushed, skin was ripped apart

Devilmen and church-beasts, butchers of the magical arts

Nightshade cloves, hemlock groves, the cauldron starts to boil

One-Two double trouble, One-Two double toil

Wool of bat, owl's claw, of wolf the tooth, the gulf and maw

The lived as living scarecrows, and that's all what we recall

Uncluoded souls, the witches of the coven

Dancing naked, on the Sabbat Night

Blessed be their hearts, without which we would not love

Born in freedom, bred to heal the world

- QUAESTIO TERTIA -

On a broomstick they fly before sunrise

Persecuted, with fear hunted down

On a broomstick they run away from their homes - their own homes

Fly away from this natural born chaos

To a hidden place for the weak and diverse

I watch them with pity. In the darkness

See the fire that burns away

See. It slowly fades away

Breathing in darkness, walking in darkness

We won't be living another day

- CANTICUM -

The witches still gather round a circle of fire

Together side by side, under the starlit sky

The witches will gather and their spirits will fly

Together side by side, in the middle of the night

- QUAESTIO QUARTA -

I ride! I ride with them in a circle of fire

Beyond... Save me, save me!

What's bad to all of you is good, so good to a little few

Watch out 'cause the are going to burn you, burn in hell!

- ACCUSATIO -

CARMAN - white queen of evil

DUB - the darkness

DOTHER - black daughter of evil

DIAN - the violence

- QUAESTIO QUINTA -

The sea of blood is running

All the pain of the innocent will remain

The moon high above is watching and praying and showing her love

Like a star deep in the night, she'll start to shiver and will look so bright

- CONCLUSIO -

And the day will fade like a stream that is dying,

There won't be any circle, nor magical rites... no more

We tried to come, we tried to show you the goodness of the stars

...of the moon, but you failed miserably And we paid... we paid...

We paid...