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Brotherhood, 2011

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Over the Dane Hills all in her bower,
Black Annis hiding, her face a fouler,
Than the blackest hag of winter,
Face hued woad vivid - a savage grin.
Creased like apples, wind blown to the wasps,
Her one eye savage scans o'er the plane

Mothers take care in drunken slumbers,
Lest Black Annis should take your babes,
Long arms reach, gnarled fingers reach through,
Open windows to take your unwatched babes.

She sucks the hides of children dry,
And wears them as their ghoulish girdle.

An oak hangs gnarled limbs over the dark maw,
Of her black bower 'neath which she hides,
A macabre spectre of flayed skins a' drying,
On its boughs in grisly design.

Twigs green withered as her fingers,
Which sprout rank talons, sprout like mushrooms from her tree,
Flesh fouled and dank, flay hide from flesh,
Like the badger dug her cave all from the sand.

She foretold King Richard the thirds death,
As his spurs struck that pillar all on the bridge.
Mark my words Lord, I swear foresooth,
It's your head shall strike that mark on your return.

And so it was after Bosworth,
Strung dead over his steed by the stirrup,
His head hit that mark.

I am Danu and I am Black Kali and I am Hel,
I'm of cat of moon craz'ed hare, I'm the three fold crone,
In my winter decay this wild huntress will sing of no fury,
And in my cull of your herd I take the thick and weak.

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from Mother Moon EP - Fay Brotherhood & Lee Burns, released April 4, 2012

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Fay Brotherhood Welwyn Garden City, UK

Pagan folk songs of myth, magic and mother nature from the lead singer of Spriggan Mist.

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