WINTERSPELLS: Life on the Magical Path

Categories: Gothic Faerie Tales

• Two Magical New Operas

  I am not usually so newsy, but my friend Michel Parry sent me this in an email from London.
  Of course, I love fairy tales and they have provided many great subjects for operas through history.  But the one about John Dee seems like one of those wonderful artistic breakthroughs into the magical consciousness that intrigues [...]

• Podcast Interviews Coming Up!

  I know I have been writing a bit fewer posts this month, but it is because I am learning how to stream audio onto this blog and create podcasts.
  This will be amazing! I am rejoining a former member of my 1990’s Celtic band, Castlerigg, and we will recording some of the Scottish Fairy ballads that [...]

• Salome: The Seventh Queen

  For you fiction lovers out there, the complete Part One of Salome: The Seventh  Queen is posted under under Fiction on the navigation bar, or you can find the chapters listed in the side bar.
  It is a draft of my own work. Part Two will begin when I get a response for Part One. Critiques, [...]

• What Happened to You on May Eve?

  This gorgeous little film shall stand alone. This is what happened to me one May Eve long ago. Has it ever happened to you?
  The Faeries dance,
  The Witches play,
  All  Walpurgis Night,
  And May Day.
  Walpurgis Night

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  March 26, 2007

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  Faust Walpurgis Night
  Before Bram Stoker, Walpurgis Night [...]

• Beware Walpurgis Night

  Walpurgis NIght and the Vampire: The Influence of Bram Stoker’s Dracula

  Countess Bathory, La Noche de Walpurgis

  Perhaps it has to do with the phases of the Moon.
  It is under the rays of the moon that all life on earth is fecundated. When she shows her bright face to us, the spirits of fertility come out [...]

• Haxan: Not for the Faint of Heart

  Haxan
  Warning: This film is a bit naughty in places. In others, it is Diabolical.
  I think Haxan must mean Witchcraft in Swedish as Hexen is witch in German…
  For those who see beyond the stereotypes of Witchcraft, this disturbing little film is campy, funny, wildly imaginative, and loaded with interesting special effects and iconic images that stir [...]

• Bela Bartok: Powers in the Land

  I didn’t intend to write a separate post about the composer of Bluebeard’s Castle, but Wordpress has its limitations. Among them the impossibility of adding to a the bottom of a post once it has an image or a video on it.
  This is just for those who might be interested to know A bit about [...]

• Bartok’s Duke Bluebeard’s Castle

  Bluebeard’s Castle: The Opera
  Agnes Zwierko and Martin Gurbal’ as Judit and Bluebeard in fragments of DUKE BLUEBEARD’S CASTLE 2004
  For those of you who may want to hear the music composed by Bela Bartok for Bluebeard’s Castle, I found this one from 2004. Musically, I feel this is the best. the revolving churn of the [...]

• The Dark Side of Faery Tales: Bluebeard’s Castle

  Faery Tales and the Subconscious Mind

  The evocative images in Faery Tales have animated my subconscious imagination since early childhood. I have not just been influenced by the wish-fulfilling, romantic-expectation fantasy aspect of Fairy Tales that has been criticized as the bane of young women by some feminists. It is the dark, disturbing elements that [...]