January 2009
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“Looking out the window and a witch flew by, whipping her broomstick, she said...”
– Destroy All Monsters You’re Gonna Die (1978)
Mike Kelley’s liner notes to the “totally epic” box set of DAM material from ‘74-‘76 (ie before this song) here: To the Throne of Chaos Where The Thin Flutes Pipe Mindlessly
“It’s got to be fate that’s doing it, a spooky witch in a sexy dress...”
– Belle & Sebastian My Wandering Days are Over (1996)
“By the dark of the moon I planted, but there came an early snow. There’s...”
– The Langley Schools Music Project version preferably, but Michael Martin Murphey Wildfire (1975)
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ABC brewing ‘Witches of Eastwick’ - for the tellybox.
“What’s more, Mr. Updike’s effort to bring what he called active and dynamic women center stage actually did result in a misogynist morality tale: “Witches” depicted the liberated women of the late ’60s and ’70s as black-magic wielding witches… The novel played upon the same fears that fueled the Salem witch trials,...
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“She was born to be my unicorn, robed head of ferns, cat child tortured by the...”
– Tyrannosaurus Rex She Was Born To Be My Unicorn (1969)
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When I was fourteen, I begged my mother to take me to the witch museum in Edinburgh while on holiday. I would have been wearing an oatmeal sweater with a tassel hem at the time. The simple indignity of ornamented knitwear aside, my mother was alarmed by my interest. She told me never to say it aloud again, because “they’d” hear and come for me in the middle of the night.
I...
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“She’s the queen of mountain magic — if you meet her in the moonlight,...”
– Kevin Ayers The Clarietta Rag (1969)