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A remix of 'The Witch in the Wood' from my 5th CD Apple Pentacle, released on French fairy-world label Prikosnovenie in 2005, this version carries deeper percussion in final bars to evoke distant marching drums, as hunters lead the woodwitch to the stake.

I hoped to perform this song live, but did not feel ready to do it justice yet, and have other plans for it. However, I've included this remix here especially for our cherished Faerieworlds host, Kelly Miller Lopez, and other green witches among us. More about this over the next year.

My little story of The Witch in the Wood is in the Poetry & Fables segment of my LJK website. While we await its overhaul, desktop viewing is best.

lyrics

'The Witch in the Wood'

There’s a red briar, in my garden
Dressed in fruit she carries but once a year
There’s a changeling, in my cradle
With a phantom laughter and pointed ear
There’s a black crow, at my window
With the hollow eyes of a seer – oh!

Tell me, do you know the Witch in the Wood?
Come Robin, tell me - have you seen the Witch in the Wood?

I’ve a stable, by the old tree,
And her walls of spiderthorn tangle my hair
There’s an ocean, in my cauldron
And the earth’s belly is aching for more
There’s a piper, on our hillside
If you won’t follow I’m going alone – oh!

Tell me, how to find the Witch in the Wood…
Come plover, show me – if I am the Witch in the Wood:
Oh seer, you’ll wake the witch in my blood!
For I am, mother, oh I am the Witch in the Wood.

credits

from Wisp and Sentinel - compilation for Faerieworlds, released August 23, 2020
Lyrics, Melodies: Louisa John-Krol circa 1985
Vocals, Woodwind motif, Harpsichord and rudimentary Keyboards by Louisa John-Krol

Piano embellishment by Richard Allison

Soundscape/effects by Harry Williamson

Engineered by Harry Williamson at Spring Studio, Australia

Additional Percussion played and bounced to tail bars for remix by Nicholas Albanis of Crustacean Creations & Dandelion Wine, Australia

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Louisa is an Australian singer, composer, writer & faery storyteller who has released many albums of ethereal music on indie labels, primarily in France. She's completing a fantasy series, The Elderbrook Chronicles, with a soundtrack.

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